Education:

Previous Positions:

Chair and Associate Professor. University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies, July 1997-August 2000; August 2001-July 2002.

Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies, July 1995-August 2002.

Head, Mortimer Rare Book Department, Smith College Libraries, Northampton, MA, August 1995-September 1996.

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Library and Information Science, January 1991-July 1995. Teaching areas: bibliography; preservation; research methods; publishing history; descriptive cataloging; management.

Preservation Officer, Brown University Library, December 1987-November 1990.

Professional Service/Organizations:

American Library Association, ACRL and ALCTS, 1981-present; LHRT, 1991-present; RBMS Standards Comm., 1985-1988; PARS (PLMS) Education Comm., 1988-1992, 1998-1999; RBMS Liaison to ALCTS/PLMS, 1988-1990; RBMS Education Committee, 1998-1999; Library History Roundtable, Publications Committee, 1993-1994; Member-at-Large, 1994-1995; Ad Hoc Committee on Library Records Retention, 1995-1997; Endowed Lecture Series Committee, 1996-1999; LHRT, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, 2000-2001; LHRT Chair, 2001-2002; ALA Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture Subcommittee, 2003-present; ALA Council, elected to term beginning January 2005.

American Printing History Association (APHA), Trustee, 1996-2001; Vice-President for Membership, 2000-2002.

Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1984-present; Founder, Preservation Education Special Interest Group; convenor, 1988-1990; co-convenor, 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 1997-1998.

Caxton Club, Chicago, 1980-present.

Grolier Club, 2004-

Libraries & Culture, Member of Advisory Board, 1993-1998.

Library Quarterly, Editorial Board, 1998-2003.

Los Angeles Preservation Network, Steering Committee, 1991-2001; Vice-Chair/Chair Elect, 1993-1994; Chair, 1994-1995.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access and other divisions, grant proposal reviewer, 1987-present (including "Save America's Treasures" grants)

New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials, grant proposal reviewer, 1993-present.

Northeast Document Conservation Center, Advisory Committee, 1988-1992; 1995-1996; 2002-present.

Awards:

• Faculty/Staff Partnership Award, UCLA Staff Assembly, 2000.
• International Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP), Faculty Grant, 1994-95
• UCLA Committee on Research Awards, 1992; 1992-93; 1993-94; 1994-95; 1995-96; 1996-97; 1997-98; 1998-99; 2000-2001
• UCLA Career Development Award, Summer 1991, 1992
• Robert Vosper/IFLA Fellows Programme Award, 1991
• Bibliographic Society of America (BSA) Fellowship, 1991
• NEH Travel to Collections Grant, awarded December 1989
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellow, September 1989
• Newberry Library Fellowship, Summer 1989
• Berner-Nash Award (outstanding doctoral dissertation), GSLIS, University of Illinois, 1988
• University of Illinois, Dissertation Research Grant, 1987
• Josie B. Houchens Fellowship in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, 1986-87
• English Speaking Union Fellowship, Summer 1985
• Donald G. Wing Award, GSLIS, University of Illinois, 1984
• Phi Kappa Phi, 1984
• La Verne Noyes Scholarship, University of Chicago, 1977-78
• Bennington College Non-Resident Term Grant to live with the Shakers and study their unpublished poetry, Winter 1974