Engagement

Professional

• American Library Association
  
  

• Chair--American Library Association--RUSA-MARS Education, Training, and Support Committee. 2006-2007.
  Chair--American Library Association--ACRL-ANSS Liaison Committee. 2006-2008
• Committee Member--American Library Association--RUSA Conference Program Coordination Committee. 2006-2008.
• Co-chair--American Library Association--RUSA-MARS Education, Training, and Support Committee. 2005-2006.
  Member-at-Large--Amnerican Library Association--LHRT Executive Committee. 2004-2006.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--ACRL-DLS Instruction Committee. 2004-2006.
• Chair--American Library Association--LHRT Auction Committee, 2002-2005.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--RUSA-MARS Education, Training, and Support Committee. 2002-2006.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--RUSA-MARS Management of Electronic Reference Services Committee. 1998-2002.
• Chair--American Library Association--RUSA-MARS Management of Electronic Reference Services Committee. 2000-2001.
• Chair--American Library Association--Library History Round Table. 1997-1998.
• Vice Chair/ Chair-elect--American Library Association--Library History Round Table. 1997-1998.
• Committee Member--American Library Association-- Library History Round Table Fiftieth Anniversary Committee. 1997-1998.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--Library History Round Table Publications Committee. 1990-1998.
• Secretary--American Library Association--Library History Round Table. 1996-1997.
• Chair--American Library Association--ACRL-ANSS Liaison Committee. 1994-1996.
• Chair--American Library Association--ACRL-ANSS Nominations Committee. 1995-1996.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--RASD-MARS Management Committee. 1991-1995.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--ACRL-ANSS Publications Committee. 1990-1994.
• Chair--American Library Association--RASD Publications Committee. 1991-1992.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--RASD Publications Committee. 1988-1991.
• Committee Member--American Library Association--RASD-MARS Measurement and Evaluation of Service Committee. 1989-1991.
• Intern--American Library Association--RASD Publications Committee. 1987-1988.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation and Notis User Group Meeting

• Representative for the Purdue University Libraries--Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Reference Heads Discussion Group. 1994-2001.
• CIC Reference Heads Representative--Virtual Electronic Library-Inter-library Loan Meeting. 1996
• Public Services Representative for the Purdue University Libraries--Notis Users Group Meetings. 1994-1996.
• Representative for the Purdue University Libraries--Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic Texts in the Humanities Conference. 1995-1996.

State Library Association

• Chair--Oklahoma Library Association--Junior Members Roundtable. 1988-1989. Vice Chair-1987-1988.
• Committee Member--Oklahoma Library Association--Governor's Mansion Library Committee. 1988-1989.
• Council Member--Oklahoma Library Association--ACRL Oklahoma Bibliographic Instruction Council. 1986-1989.

Library Anthropology Research Group

• Member--Library Anthropology Research Group. 1991-1993.

Midwest Outdoor Museum Coordinating Council

• Committee Member--Conference Planning Committee. 1999.

University

• Chair--Purdue University Libraries--Faculty Affairs Committee. 2006-2007.
  Member--Purdue University Libraries--Resource Review Committee. 2007-
• Member--Purdue University Libraries--Infrastructure Council. 2007.
  Chair--Purdue University Libraries--Faculty Affairs Committee. 2004-2005 .
• Team Member--Purdue University Libraries--VOID Sub-team, User Instruction Team. 2004-
• Team Member--Purdue University Libraries--PC Support Team. 2004-.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--HSSE Library Open House Planning Team. 2003.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Hicks Repository Project Team. 2002.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries—Best Practices Team, User Instruction Team. 2001.
• Chair--Purdue University--Faculty Grievance Steering Committee. Dec. 20, 2000-May 31, 2002.
• Chair--Purdue University--Faculty Grievance Panel. 2000.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Reference Services Team. 2000-2002.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--User Instruction Team. 2000-.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Public Relations Team. 2000.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Automation Advisory Committee. 1991-2000.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--HSSE Collection Development Committee. 1989-1999.
• Comittee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Social Sciences Serials Review Subcommittee. 1994-1999.
• Committee Member--Purdue University--Faculty Grievance Steering Committee. 2000.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Interim Web Policy Team. 1999.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Steering Committee, 1998-2000.
• Staff Training Coordinator--Purdue University Libraries--HSSE Instruction Team, 1998-2001.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--HSSE Program Planning Committee. 1997-1998.
• Chair--Purdue University Libraries--Electronic Services Delivery Team. 1996.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Promoting Information Literacy Action Team. 1996.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Faculty Affairs Committee. 1994-1997.
• Committee Member--Purdue University--Committee on Scholastic Delinquencies and Readmissions Committee. 1993-1996.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Nominations Committee. 1993-1995.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries—Seminar Committee. 1990-1992.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Social Science Serials Review Subcommittee. 1989-1994.
• Chair--Purdue University Libraries--Grievance Committee. 1992-1993.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Grievance Committee. 1989-1992.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Task Force on the Physical Condition of the Collections. 1990-1991.
• Committee Member--Purdue University Libraries--Guide Committee--Faculty Affairs Subcommittee. 1989-1990.
• Committee Member--University of Oklahoma--Library Instruction Committee. 1986-1989.
• Chairperson--University of Oklahoma Libraries Social Committee. 1986-1987.
• Graduate Student Representative--Louisiana State University Faculty Senate Library Committee. 1985-1986.
• Graduate Student Representative--Louisiana School of Library and Information Science Faculty Committee. 1984-1985.

Community

• President--Friends of the Mulberry Community Library Board of Directors. 2002-.
• President--Camp Tippecanoe Civil War Round Table. 1996-1997, 2000-2004.
• Committee Member--Tippecanoe County Historical Association Research & Publications Committee. 1994-present.
• Floor Manager--Lafayette Grand Victorian Ball. 2000, 2002,2003.
• Elder--Lafayette Mennonite Fellowship. 1992 -1995, 1999-present.
• Board Member-- Friends of the Mulberry Community Library Board of Directors. 2000-2002.
• Board Member--Mediation Services of Tippecanoe County, Inc. 1992-1998.
• Vice President--Camp Tippecanoe Civil War Round Table. 1995-1999.
• Board Member--Camp Tippecanoe Civil War Round Table. 1991-1992, 2004-2006.
• Volunteer--Wolf Park. Institute of Ethology, North American Wildlife Park Foundation, Inc. Battle Ground, Indiana. 1989-1993.
• Volunteer and Demonstrator--Feast of the Hunter's Moon, Tippecanoe County Historical Association. 1989-present.
• Volunteer--Christmas Model Train Engineer, Tippecanoe County Historical Association. 1995-2001.
• Committee Member--Tippecanoe County Historical Association Survey Committee. 1996.
• Judge--Outstanding Junior Scientist Competition, Indiana Academy of Science, 61st Annual Meetings, Purdue University. 1994.
• Living History Demonstrator--Port Hudson Commemorative Area. Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, 1985-1986.

Professional Service

• LHRT Representative to the Advisory Board--Libraries & the Cultural Record (a quarterly journal of the University of Texas Press). 2006-present.
  Member--Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series Editorial Board. 2003-2008..
• Co-Chair--LHRT Program “Bringing Libraries to the People: Histories of Library Outreach.” Library History Round Table (ALA). 1999 Annual American Library Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Consultant--Lithuania Christian College Library, Klaipeda, Lithuania, 1998.
• Co-editor--Library History Round Table Newsletter (ALA). 1990-1998.
• Facilitator--"Electronic Reference: Evolution or Chaos" Discussion Forum. RASD-MARS Measurement and Evaluation of Service Committee. Chicago Mid-winter ALA Conference. 1991.
• Creator and Moderator--Library and Information Science Research Forum. Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference. 1988-1989.
• Creator and Moderator--Library and Information Science Research Forum. Louisiana State University, 1985-1986.
• Assistant to the Editor-- RQ (ALA-Reference and Adult Services Division quarterly journal)--Louisiana State University. 1985-1986.

University Service

• Faculty Advisor--Purdue Mennonite Student Fellowship. Purdue University, 1991-2001.

Last update: March 10, 2008