Speaker

"You have a reputation for being an excellent speaker and it is a reputation well deserved." - ACRL/New England Chapter President, May 31, 2005

I have been invited to keynote conferences or meetings for many organizations, including many state library associations, the Australian Library and Information Association, the Canadian Access Conference, the China Digital Library Conference, the Florida Library Director's Conference, and the OCLC User's Council. For more information, please see my resume and/or my recent presentations and older presentations. My current speaking schedule is also available.

After participating in a number of Access conferences, and exhibiting appropriate behavior, I was declared an honorary Canadian at Access 2003, a distinction of which I am particularly proud .

I have taught Internet workshops for the InfoPeople Project, UC Extension, the American Society for Information Science, the California Library Association, Apple Computer, and other professional organizations and commercial companies. I have taught Internet workshops in Australia, France, Hungary, New Zealand, and Romania. I've been invited to speak at conferences in Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Writer

My latest book is Managing the Digital Library from Reed Business Press. It is comprised of the first six years of my Library Journal column, updated, link-checked and expanded.

In 2002 I edited XML in Libraries for Neal-Schuman Publishers, which details how libraries are using XML to improve library collections and services. I have also written Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial, and co-authored Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook, with John Ober and Anne Lipow, which was one of the first dozen books written on the Internet.

I wrote a monthly column for Library Journal on digital libraries for ten years (1997-2007). I have also written numerous articles for professional journals on the Internet, training, and other topics relating to information technology. For specific article citations, please see my resume. A piece published in Library Hi Tech is available here in draft form: A Bibliographic Metadata Infrastructure for the 21st Century and in Catalan translation. This piece was awarded the Outstanding Article for 2004 by Library Hi Tech.

Other Professional Activities

I am the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. I have also been instrumental in the development of the Simple Web Indexing Software for Humans - Enhanced (SWISH-E) software, and the Internet resource guides Librarians' Index to the Internet, and KidsClick!.

Those who would like more details on my career can read about my day job or refer to my resume.