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I came to St. Catherine's
from a 15 year career on the library faculty of St. Olaf College, where my
activities spanned the gamut from music cataloging to reference to collection
development to serving as co- college librarian to teaching. In 1995 I
was awarded a Fulbright that brought me to Athens
where I helped establish the national music library of Greece.
Many years ago I was a librarian at the University of Minnesota
where I cataloged Polish and Polish-American archival materials. I even
put in a short stint at the Minnesota Senate as a legislative indexer.
Music continues to be an important part of my life. I am a composer,
and I have written works for many different instruments and ensembles, from
solo piano to a concerto. I also have garnered several commissions over
the years. I'm now writing some organ music and a string quartet.
Alas, I'm still waiting for that EMI contract to show up. For much of
my mature life I also have been a denominationally eclectic church musician,
serving as organist or music director.
My current interests in librarianship cover a fairly broad range, for I have
published on leadership in academic libraries, on cataloging, and on my
current research focus, collection development. I'm also quite
interested in issues of intellectual property and, more generally, the
changes that many people believe are coming to the conduct of scholarly and
artistic communication. We have more information than we ever have had
before, whether we want it or not, but has all this information and the
seeming ease with which it can be disseminated really enhanced our ability to
learn that which is essential? The musical side of my life led me
to reflect on time--how we understand it, how we experience it, why we obsess
over its measurement, and how we choose to live through it. That
interest led to my teaching a course entitled "Time" at St. Olaf.
This page is under constant construction. I hope to have a chance to
expand on the list of topics and links listed in the left column. Come
visit!
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