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Highlights: Collection Development

Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. Classes include: "Information Resources in the Humanities" and "Information Resources in the Social Sciences."

Director: "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything": A National Reading Club for Native Students.

Principal Investigator: "Honoring Generations: Developing the Next Generation of Tribal Librarians," Recruiting and Training Librarians for the 21 st Century Grant ($341,294), U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Consulting: with tribal college, community/public, school, and school libraries.

Enrolled: White Earth Reservation, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Pembina Band.

Selected Honors

2005 Mover and Shaker, Library Journal.

Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Excellence Award for Research, Teaching, or Demonstration Activities that Contribute to Changes of Positive Value to Society, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

Selected Presentation Venues

ALA, American Theological Library Association, Goteberg International Book Fair, IFLA, International Indigenous Librarians Forum, Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, PLA, Sequoyah Research Center Symposium, Transborder Library Forum, World Indigenous Peoples Conference On Education.

Current Advisory Boards

El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros, Advisory Committee, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.

Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005-.

International Children's Digital Library. Advisory Board, 2002-.

WebJunction.org. OCLC. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Public Access Computing Portal, Advisory Committee, 2002-.

Sequoyah Research Center. Advisory Board, 2001-.

Texas State Library and Archives, TexShare Advisory Board, 2005-.

Selected Publications

"Dream Catchers, Love Medicine, and Fancy Dancing: Selecting Native American Studies Material in the Humanities," The Acquisitions Librarian 17/18 (November 1997): 141-157.

"Weeding," In Kent, Allen, ed., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 54, Supplement 17, 1994, 352-398.

"Displays and Displacement of Circulation," Collection Management 17 (4) (Spring 1993): 57-77.

"Collection Evaluation as Research," Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 5 (3) (1992): 297-300.

"Weeding Without Tears: Objective and Subjective Criteria Used in Identifying Books to be Weeded in Public Libraries," Collection Management 12 (1/2) (1990): 83-93.

"Does Weeding Increase Circulation?: A Review of the Related Literature," Collection Management 10 (1/2) (1988): 141-156.

"A Classic Text Approach to Collection Evaluation," In The Librarian's Idea Book: Research, Innovations, Solutions from ALA Poster Sessions, Chicago, American Library Association, 1993, pp. 44-45.

"An Investigation of the Use of Weeding and Displays as Methods to Increase the Stock Turnover Rate in Small Public Libraries." Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois. 1987. xvi, 250 pp.

Book and media reviews in American Indian Libraries Newsletter, Multicultural Review, School Library Journal, MSRRT Newsletter, Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, Library Trends, Journal of Library History, Library Journal.

Selected Service

American Indian Library Association, President, 1997-1998.

ALA:

Carol Brey-Casiano's Presidential Advisory Committee, Diversity Subcommittee.
Planning Committee for "Many Voices, One Nation: An Evening of Sharing and Celebration of Our Lives and Stories," 2004-2005.

Council Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, Member, 1997-1999. Spectrum Initiative Jury, Leadership Institute Committee, Steering Committee.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2003, 2004, Selection Committee, Member.

Texas Library Association Cultural Diversity Committee.

University of Texas at Austin, Hamilton Book Award Committee.