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Highlights: Library Instruction and Reference

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

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-.

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

Selected Publications

(with Beth Hallmark and Amanda Traviss) "WebJunction.org: Where Minds Meet to Support Public Access Computing," The Electronic Library 22 (4): 314-316.

(with Becky Kyle) "Building a Native Bridge to WebJunction.org," WebJunction.org, 18 Mary 2004.

(with Aimee Akerman) "OKSALE: Building a Culturally Responsive Virtual Library of Education Resources for a Tribal College," Education Libraries 25 (2) (Winter 2002): 26-28.

(with Peter Larsen) "Oksale: An Indigenous Approach to Creating a Virtual Library of Education Resources," D-Lib Magazine 8 (3), <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/roy/03roy.html>.

(with Eric Novotny) "How Do We Learn? Contributions of Learning Theory to Reference Service and Library Instruction," The Reference Librarian 69/70 (2000): 129-139.>, (March 2002).

"Diversity in the Classroom: Incorporating Service-Learning Experiences in the Library and Information Science Curriculum," Journal of Library Administration 33 3/4 (2001): 213-228.

(with Raymond J. Mooney) "Recommending Using Learning for Text Categorization," In Proceedings of the SIGIR-99 Workshop on Recommender Systems: Algorithms and Evaluation, Berkeley, CA, August, 1999.

(with Raymond J. Mooney and Paul N. Bennett) "Book Recommending Using Text Categorization with Extracted Information," In Papers from the AAAI-98/ICML-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, Madison, Wisconsin, 1998, 49-54.

"Reference Accuracy," In Whitlatch, Jo Bell, ed. Library Users and Reference Services, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 1995.

"Recovering Native Identity: Readers' Advisory Services for Non-Reservation Native Americans," Collection Building 12 (3/4) (Summer 1993): 73-77.

Selected Service

Reference and User Services Association

Publications Committee, 2004-.

Management and Operation of Public Services Section (MOPSS), Research and Statistics Committee, Chair, 1996-1997.

Management and Operation of User Services Section (MOUSS), Executive Committee, 2002-2004.

Management and Operation of User Services Section (MOUSS), Secretary, 2002-2004.