Curriculum Vitae
Boston College, Library, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Burns Librarian
Christian Yves Dupont
curriculum vitae
last updated April 15, 2021
Personal Data
Present Employment:
Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian for Special
Collections, Boston College
Office Address:
John J. Burns Library, 306 / 140 Commonwealth Ave. / Chestnut
Hill, MA 02467
Office Telephone:
(617) 552-0105
Office Fax:
(617) 552-2465
Office E-mail:
christian.dupont@bc.edu
Personal E-mail:
christianydupont@gmail.com
Home/Mailing Address:
220 Lowell Ave. / Newtonville, MA 02460
Mobile (personal):
(617) 831-9288
Foreign Languages:
Moderate fluency in spoken and written Italian and French, basic
reading knowledge of Spanish, German, Latin, and Greek
ORCiD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-9052
For additional information and photo, please visit my Academia.edu page and LinkedIn profile:
https://bc.academia.edu/ChristianDupont
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiandupont/
Education
Master of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
(Bloomington, IN), 1999.
Doctor of Philosophy in History of Christianity, Department of Theology, University of Notre
Dame (Notre Dame, IN), 1997. Thesis: Receptions of Phenomenology in French Philosophy and Religious
Thought, 1889-1939 (director: Thomas F. O’Meara, O.P.).
Master of Arts in History of Christianity, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
(Notre Dame, IN), 1995.
Bachelor of Arts in Theology, with honors and academic distinction, Andrews University (Berrien
Springs, MI), 1989.
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Positions Held, Ranks Attained
Coherent Digital, LLC
Strategic Advisor
Boston College
201920192014-
Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian for Special Collections 2014Atlas Systems, Inc.
Aeon Program Director
University of Virginia, University of Virginia Library
2008-2014
2008-2014
2006-2008
Director, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
2006-2008
Appointed as Associate Librarian
Jan. 2006
Syracuse University, Syracuse University Library
2003-2005
Awarded Permanent Status
May 2005
Director, Special Collections Research Center
2003-2005
Subject Liaison, Italian Language and Literature
2003-2005
Appointed as Associate Librarian
Jan. 2003
University of Notre Dame, University Libraries
1991-2002
Curator for Special Collections
1999-2002
Subject Liaison, Italian Language and Literature
2000-2002
Interim Systems Librarian
1999-2000
Appointed as Assistant Librarian
July 1999
Reference Supervisor, Special Collections
1996-1999
Graduate Student Assistant, Special Collections
1991-1996
Distinctions, Honors, and Awards
Professional:
Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding
Document, eds. Christian Y. Dupont and Peter S. Onuf
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library, 2008).
Selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities “We
the People” Bookshelf Program, 2009-2010.
2010
Winner, Division Two (moderately expensive catalogs),
Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book
Prices Current” Exhibition Awards, sponsored by the
Association of College and Research Libraries, for “Don’t Pay
Any Attention to Him. He’s 90% Water.” The Cartooning Career of
Boris Drucker, eds. Christian Y. Dupont and William T. La Moy,
2006
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with a biographical essay by Johanna Drucker (Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University Library, 2005).
Graduate:
Beta Phi Mu, Library and Information Science Honor Society
1999
Undergraduate:
Phi Kappi Phi, National Honor Society
1989-1996
Theta Alpha Kappa, National Honor Society for Religious
Studies, founding member and first president, Alpha Alpha Rho
chapter at Andrews University
1989
Service, Achievement and Leadership Award, Andrews
University
1989
Professional Memberships and Service
American Trust for the British Library
Advisory Council
Ticknor Society
Board of Directors
Eire Society of Boston
Board of Directors
ArchivesSpace (a community served by LYRASIS)
Governance Board
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Archive Statistics Working Group (TC46 SC 8 WG 12)
Boston Library Consortium, Special Collections Community of Interest
Co-chair, Special Collections Community of Interest
American Library Association (ALA)
2019201920152018201520152015-2017
2015-2017
2014-2021
2014-2021
20142017-2019
1998-
Committee on Research and Statistics
2014-2016
Presidential Task Force on Traditional Cultural Expressions
2010-2011
ALA co-chair, ALA/SAA/AAM Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries
and Museums (CALM)
2007-2009
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
1998-
Co-Chair SAA/ACRL-RBMS Joint Task Force for on the Development of 2014-2017
Standardized Statistical Measures for Public Services in Archival Repositories
and Special Collections Libraries
Member, Editorial Board, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and
Cultural Heritage
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS)
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Member, Budget and Development Committee
2017-2021
Member, Security Committee
2014-2016
Liaison to SAA for User and Use Metrics Standards Development
2013-2014
Liaison to ALA/SAA/AAM Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries 2013-2014
and Museums (CALM)
Member, Workshops Committee
2013-2014
Member, Metrics and Assessment Task Force
2011-2013
Member, Guidelines for Interlibrary Loan and Borrowing and
Lending Special Collections Material for Exhibition Task Force
2009-2011
Chair, 2010 Nominating Committee
2007-2009
Chair, 2009 Preconference Local Arrangements
2007-2009
Section Vice-chair/Chair/Past Chair
2006-2009
Chair, 2006 Preconference Program Planning
2004-2006
Assistant Web Editor
2004-2006
Member, Exhibition Awards Committee
2002-2004
Webmaster
2000-2004
Member, Publications Committee
2000-2004
Western European Specialists Section (WESS)
1998-
Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
2000-2001
Society of American Archivists (SAA)
2006-2017
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
2006-2008
American Printing History Association (APHA)
2006-2017
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (BSUVA)
2006-2017
Council Member
2007-2008
Grolier Club of New York
2005-
Bibliographical Society of America (BSA)
2001-
Nominating Committee Chair
2007
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
2001-2016
Rare Book School, Friend of the Book Arts Press
2000-
North American Society for Early Phenomenology
2013-2016
American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
20212009-2015
2001-2004
American Association for Teachers of Italian (AATI)
2001-2004
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Dante Society of America
2000-
Secretary and Librarian
2014-
Membership Management Task Force
2013-2014
American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
1998-1999
Société Rencesvals
1998-1999
North American Sartre Society
1998-1999
Continuing Education
“Situational Leadership II,” Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), January, 2018. Intensive two-week
leadership assessment and training program created by the Ken Blanchard Companies, presented by
Boston College’s Office of Employee Development.
“Management Development Perspectives,” Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA), September, 2015–
May, 2016. Selected to participate in campus-wide management formation program that included a
two-day retreat and monthly cohort meetings, readings, and group projects. Led by Boston College’s
Office of Employee Development.
“Reference Sources for Researching Rare Books,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia
(Charlottesville, VA), July 22–26, 2013. Systematic introduction to approximately 350 printed and
electronic reference sources for researching rare books; Joel Silver, instructor.
“Analytical Bibliography,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), June 6–
10, 2011. Course on techniques for recognizing, recording, and understanding the traces preserved
in printed books of the hand-press period that provide evidence of the methods of their
manufacture; Stephen Tabor, instructor.
“Provenance: Tracing Owners & Collections,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia
(Charlottesville, VA), July 26–30, 2010. Course on deciphering various forms of ownership
markings, tracing owners and their books, and understanding the value of this information; David
Pearson, instructor.
“Donors and Libraries,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), July 17–21,
2006. Course on donor relations and stewardship from the perspective of collectors and libraries;
Susan Allen and William Barlow, instructors.
“European Bookbinding, 1500-1800,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia (Charlottesville,
VA), January 6–10, 2003. Course on the history of European bookbinding techniques and
structures; Nicholas Pickwoad, instructor.
“Book Illustration to 1890,” Rare Book School, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), July 24–
28, 2000. Course on identification of book illustration techniques and print processes; Terry
Belanger, instructor.
“School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections,” presented by
the Northeast Document Conservation Center at the Chicago Historical Society (Chicago, IL), June
2–4, 1999.
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Publications: As Author
Books
Phenomenology in French Philosophy: Early Encounters, Phaenomenologica, vol. 208, series founded by H. L.
Van Breda and published under the auspices of the Husserl-Archives, Ulrich Melle, ed. (Dordrecht,
Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer), 2014. [solicited/refereed]
Reviewed by Edward Baring for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014.04.32)
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/47976-phenomenology-in-french-philosophy-early-encounters.
Book Chapters
“Inferno 33: The Power of Grief,” in Reading Dante with Images: A Visual Lectura Dantis, ed. Matthew
Collins (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2021 [anticipated]). [forthcoming] [solicited]
“‘How the Young Women Take to It!’ Italian Exiles and Women Readers of Dante in Nineteenthcentury New England,” in Dante Beyond Borders: Contexts and Reception, ed. Nick Havely, Jonathan
Katz, and Richard Cooper, eds. (Cambridge: Legenda, 2021). [forthcoming, summer 2021]
[solicited/refereed]
“A History of the Dante Society of America,” in Dante Beyond Borders: Contexts and Reception, ed. Nick
Havely, Jonathan Katz, and Richard Cooper, eds. (Cambridge: Legenda, 2021). [forthcoming,
summer 2021] [solicited/refereed]
“From Poetics to Phenomenology: Consciousness in Dante’s Divine Comedy,” in Dante and the Other:
A Phenomenology of Love, Aaron B. Daniels, ed. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2021), 97-112.
[solicited]
“An Entrepreneurial Collector,” in A Rising People: The Brian P. Burns Collection of Irish Art, Roger
Kohn, ed. (Palm Beach, FL: Brian P. Burns, 2017), 19-23. [solicited]
“Reading and Collecting Dante,” preface to Dante: Fifty Books, Margherita Palumbo and Filippo
Rotundo, eds. (New York, Rome: PrPh Rare Books, Philobiblon, 2016), [v-vii]. [solicited]
“Charles Eliot Norton and the Rationale for American Dante Studies,” in Dante in the Long Nineteenth
Century: Nationality, Identity, and Appropriation, Aida Audeh and Nick Havely, eds. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012), 248-65. [solicited]
“The Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection,” in Declaring Independence: The Origin
and Influence of America’s Founding Document, Christian Y. Dupont and Peter S. Onuf, eds.
(Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library, 2008), 73-81. [editorial]
Library overview and collection profile for the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library,
University of Virginia, in Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the
Association of Research Libraries, Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, and Samuel A. Streit, eds.
(Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2007), 243-245. [solicited]
“Giulio Acquaticci e John Zahm collezionisti di Dante,” in Atti del convegno “Quei battenti sempre aperti:
Gli Acquaticci e Treia nella cultura marchigiana” (Treia: Accademia Georgica, 2002), 99-154. [solicited]
“The John A. Zahm Dante Collection,” with Louis Jordan and Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. in What is
Written Remains: Historical Essays on the Libraries of Notre Dame, Maureen Gleason and Katharina J.
Blackstead, eds. (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame, Press, 1994), 85-104.
[solicited]
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Essays and Articles: Academic
“Charles Serrus and the Société des études philosophiques du sud-est: A Neglected Episode in the
French Reception of Husserl’s Phenomenology,” Phenomenological Investigations [solicited/under
review]
“Édouard Le Roy,” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).
https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com/ [forthcoming, May 2021] [solicited/refereed]
“Humanist Texts,” Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, edited by Jeffrey F.
Hamburger, William P. Stoneman, Anne-Marie Eze, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Nancy Netzer (Boston:
McMullen Museum of Art, 2016), 243. [exhibition catalogue; solicited]
“Jean Héring and the Introduction of Husserl’s Phenomenology to France,” Studia Phænomenologica
15:1 (2015): 129-154. [solicited/refereed]
“Longfellow’s Florence,” International Journal of Cross-cultural Studies and Environmental Communication
4:1 (2015): 53-76. [solicited/refereed]
“Collecting and Reading Dante in America: Harvard College Library and the Dante Society,”
Harvard Library Bulletin 22:1 (Spring 2011): 1-57. [solicited/refereed]
“Longfellow’s Dante Collection,” by Joseph Chesley Mathews, edited and updated,” Dante Studies,
with the Annual Report of the Dante Society 128 (special themed issue on Longfellow and Dante) (2010):
279-306. [solicited/refereed]
“Longfellow and Dante,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, transcribed and edited, with an
introduction, Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society 128 (special themed issue on
Longfellow and Dante) (2010): 221-78. [solicited/refereed]
“Chronicling Longfellow’s Interest in Dante: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana and Joseph
Chesley Mathews,” Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society 128 (special themed issue
on Longfellow and Dante) (2010): 191-220. [solicited/refereed]
“Collecting Dante from Tuscany: The Formation of the Fiske Dante Collection at Cornell
University,” Studies in Bibliography 58 (2010), 185-210. [refereed]
“The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano Database: Full-Text Searching Early Italian Vernacular
Sources on the Web,” Italica 78:4 (December 2001): 526-39. [solicited/refereed]
“Collecting Dante in America at the End of the Nineteenth Century: John Zahm and Notre Dame,”
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 95:4 (December 2001): 443-81. [solicited/refereed]
“Perserverance, final” and “Sheol,” The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, ed. Richard P.
McBrien (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 987-88, 1189. [solicited]
Essays and Articles: Library Management
With Elizabeth Yakel, “What’s So Special About Special Collections? Or, Assessing the Value
Special Collections Bring to Academic Libraries,” Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 8:2
(2013). Revised version of a paper of the same title published in the Proceedings of the 2010 Library
Assessment Conference, “Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment,” Baltimore, MD, 25–27 October,
2010 (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2011), 417-26. [refereed]
“Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging
Futures?” Introductory essay, as guest editor, to selected proceedings from the 47th annual
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preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries held in Austin, Texas, June 20–23, 2006. RBM: A Journal of Rare Books,
Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 8:1 (Spring 2007): 13-19. [editorial]
“Religion and Intellectual Freedom: A Response,” Indiana Libraries 19:2 (2000): 13-14. A response to
Doug Archer, “Religion and Intellectual Freedom” Indiana Libraries 19:2 (2000): 17-10. [solicited]
Essays and Articles: Popular
Since 2017, I have been writing a regular feature for the Irish Arts Review (Dublin) exploring the
interplay of Irish artists with Irish literature in contemporary Irish culture, drawing on the Irish
collections in John J. Burns Library, Boston College:
“Maud’s Mary?” Irish Arts Review 38:1 (Spring 2021), 40.
“Salvaged Arts” Irish Arts Review 37:3 (Autumn 2020), 60.
“Indomitable Irishry” Irish Arts Review 37:1 (Spring 2020), 48.
“Flanntasmagoria!” Irish Arts Review 36:3 (Autumn 2019), 58.
“Noble Nobels” Irish Arts Review 36:1 (Spring 2019), 54
“Just doodling” Irish Arts Review 35:4 (Winter 2018), 60.
“Strength of dragons” Irish Arts Review 35:3 (Autumn 2018), 58.
“Celtic wonder” Irish Arts Review 35:2 (Summer 2018), 60.
“Embroidered cloths” Irish Arts Review 35:1 (Spring 2018), 54.
“Mid-century showcase” Irish Arts Review 34:4 (Winter 2017), 150.
“Strange bedfellows” Irish Arts Review 34:3 (Autumn 2017), 74
“Vox Hiberniæ” Irish Arts Review 34:2 (Summer 2017), 120-121.
Book Reviews
Strangers in a Strange Land: Italian-Language American Imprints, 1830-1945, ed. James J. Periconi with
essays by Martino Marazzi, Francesco Durante, and Robert Viscusi (New York: Grolier Club, 2012),
in Italica 91:4 (2014): 838-840.
New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications. Proceedings of the First Seminar “Computers,
Literature and Philology,” Edinburgh, 7–9 September 1998, ed. Jonathan Usher and Domenico Fiormonte
(Oxford: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, 2001), in Annali d’Italianistica 20 (2001):
581-84.
Publications: As Editor
Books
Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding Document, eds. Christian Y. Dupont
and Peter S. Onuf (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Library, 2008; revised ed. 2010).
Selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities “We the People” Bookshelf Program,
2009-2010.
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Exhibition Catalogs
“Don’t Pay Any Attention to Him. He’s 90% Water.” The Cartooning Career of Boris Drucker, eds. Christian
Y. Dupont and William T. La Moy, with a biographical essay by Johanna Drucker (Syracuse, NY:
Syracuse University Library, 2005). Winner, Division Two (moderately expensive catalogs),
Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Awards,
sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006.
Journals and Periodicals
Guest editor, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 13:2 (Fall 2012), special
themed issue on assessment in special collections and archives.
Guest editor, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 8:1 (Spring 2007),
selected papers from the 2006 RBMS Preconference “Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-first Century,” June 20–23, 2006, Austin, TX.
Founding editor, with William T. La Moy. The Courant, the semiannual news bulletin of the Special
Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, 2004-2005.
Publications: As Translator
Marcello Verga, “European Identity,” trans. Christian Dupont and Silvia Dupont, in The Hedgehog
Review 16:1 (2014): 44-47.
Anna Maria Giudice, “Sienese Painting at the Time of Bartolo di Fredi: Protagonists and Supporting
Actors in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena,” trans. Christian Dupont, in Bruce Boucher and
Francesca Fiorani, eds., Bartolo di Fredi. The Adoration of the Magi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed /
L’Adorazione dei Magi: Un capolavoro ricostruito (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Art Museum,
2012), 73-90.
Ragionieri, Pina and Gary Radke, Michelangelo: Public and Private, trans. Christian Dupont and Silvia
Dupont (Seattle, WA: Seattle Museum of Art, 2009).
Ragionieri, Pina, Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth, trans. Christian Dupont and Silvia Dupont
(Syracuse, NY: SUArtGalleries, distributed by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
“Friar Yves, Cardinal Congar, Dominican: Itinerary of a Theologian,” translation of Etienne
Fouilloux, “Frère Yves, Cardinal Congar, Dominicain. Itinéraire d’un théologien” (Revue des sciences
philosophiques et théologiques, 79 (1995), pp. 379-404), in U.S. Catholic Historian 17:2 (Spring, 1999), 6390. [refereed]
Other Publishing Contributions
Library and Archives Standards
Information and Documentation — International Archives Statistics, ISO/DIS 24083:2020(E). Member of
working group, ISO TC 46/SC 8/WG 12, International Organization for Standardization, 20142020.
Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections
Libraries. Approved by the ACRL Board of Directors, October 26, 2017. Approved by the Society of
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American Archivists Council, January 17, 2018. Served as co-chair of ACRL/RBMS and SAA joint
task force charged with creating the standard and its primary author, 2014-2017.
ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Interlibrary and Exhibition Loan of Special Collections Materials. Approved by
the ACRL Board of Directors, January 2012. Served on ACRL/RBMS task force charged with
combining and revising the standards and contributed significantly to the writing, 2009-2011.
Exhibitions Curated
Flanntasmagoria! The Ever-widening Circle of Flann O’Brien, featuring artworks by David, Edward and
Joanna O’Kane, Boston College Ireland, Dublin, July 15-19, 2019.
Genius of Genre: The Pen Names and Personas of Flann O’Brien, John J. Burns Library, Boston College,
February–June, 2019.
Right Reading: Selections from the library of John J. Burns, Jr., John J. Burns Library, Boston College,
October 2017–February 2018.
Dark Age Ahead or Systems of Survival? Jane Jacobs and the Ethics of Economies, John J. Burns Library,
Boston College, April 10–June 23, 2017.
Irish Women Rising: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Ireland, 1900–1923, John J. Burns Library, Boston
College, October 17, 2016–March 25, 2017.
Recreating Identity: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland, John J. Burns Library, Boston College,
February 1, 2016–June 12, 2016.
Dante at Harvard: An Exhibition Commemorating the 750th Anniversary of the Poet’s Birth, Houghton
Library, Harvard University, September–December, 2015.
“Don’t Pay Any Attention to Him. He’s 90% Water.” The Cartooning Career of Boris Drucker, Syracuse
University Joseph I. Lubin House, New York City, March 19–June 2, 2005.
The Photographer Who Never Took a Picture: Portraits of Early 20th-Century Life from Ewing Galloway,
Syracuse University Joseph I. Lubin House, New York City, November 8, 2004–January 28, 2005.
Medieval Manuscripts at Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries,
University of Notre Dame, August 27–December 18, 2001.
The Hound, the Cock & the Monk: St. Dominic’s Press, Golden Cockerel Press & the Career of Eric Gill,
Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Notre Dame, November 1–
February 4, 2001. Also assistant curator for Eric Gill & the Guild of St. Dominic, Snite Museum of Art,
University of Notre Dame, November 12–February 4, 2001.
Ways into the City of Woes: Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno, with Simone Spanu, Department of Special
Collections, University Libraries, University of Notre Dame, February 1–May 15, 1996.
Renaissance Dante in Print, 1472-1629, with Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. and Louis Jordan, Department of
Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Notre Dame, October 15–December 15,
1993 and The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, April 15–June 15, 1994.
Early Printed Books and the Columbian Encounter, with Theodore J. Cachey, Jr., Department of Special
Collections, University Libraries, University of Notre Dame, February 15–April 30, 1992.
Electronic Textbases and Digital Projects
Divine Comedy Image Archive, Cornell University Library, 2011-2012, Patrick J. Stevens, ed. Served as
project consultant. Informed, in particular, the selection of editions for digitization.
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World of Dante, University of Virginia, 2006-2008, Deborah Parker, ed. Served on project advisory
board. Povided counsel on content selection and technical design.
International Gramsci Society Newsletter, 1998-2006. Created and collaborated in the maintenance of the
online version of the official newsletter of the International Gramsci Society.
XperSearch Dante, 2002. Application of my XperSearch full-text search engine (see FIOLA, below) to
the Italian text (Petrocchi edition) of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
FIOLA: Franco-Italian On-Line Archive, 1998-2002. In collaboration with Leslie Zarker Morgan
(Loyola College of Maryland) and David Bénéteau (Seton Hall University), created a specialized fulltext database search engine (XperSearch) for a small corpus of Franco-Italian texts.
Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, 1997-2004. Provided project coordination and programming assistance
for the full-text database of more than 1800 early Italian vernacular texts published by the Centro di
studi Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, a research center of the Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche
(CNR), Florence, Italy in conjunction with the ARTFL Project, Department of Romance Languages,
University of Chicago and the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies, University
of Notre Dame.
Ambrosiana Drawings Project, University of Notre Dame, 1996-2002. Provide web and database
programming and documentation support.
Progetto Italica Corso di Lingua, 1996-1998. Designed and maintained web-based curriculum for Italian
language instruction as part of an international collaborative project sponsored by RAI International,
a division of the Italian national television corporation.
Local Publications
“The Irish Collections in John J. Burns Library,” in Ben Birnbaum, et al., eds. Boston College, the Irish
Connection: History, Art, Culture, Scholarship. (Boston: Boston College Office of Marketing
Communications, 2016), pp. 19-25.
Numerous articles (2014-) for Irish Studies Newsletter, the semiannual news bulletin of the Irish
Studies Program, Boston College.
Numerous blog entries (2014-) for John J. Burns Library’s Blog, the blog of John J. Burns Library,
Boston College.
Numerous articles (2004-2006) for The Courant, the semiannual news bulletin of the Special
Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library (see also Publications: As Editor, above).
Numerous articles (2003-2006) for The Library Connection, a newsletter of Syracuse University Library.
“Collecting Dante in America: Lessons from Library History” Access no. 81 (Fall 2002), pp. 10-11.
(Access is a publication of the University Libraries, University of Notre Dame.
“ItalNet: Italian Studies Resources on the Internet” Access no. 73 (December 1998), pp. 8-9.
(Access is a publication of the University Libraries, University of Notre Dame.
“Digital Libraries and Curricula” Byteline 26:1 (Spring 1998), p. 5 (Byteline was a publication of the
Office of Information Technology, University of Notre Dame).
Vatican II Collection, with Marie Conn. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1991. 145pp. An
archival finding aid for a collection of 1,444 documents from the Second Vatican Council and the
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post-conciliar liturgical commissions located in the Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame.
Lectures and Presentations
Lectures and Presentations: Academic
“Phenomenological Readings of Dante’s Poetry II: Memory and Mimesis.” Accepted paper
presentation for “Psychology and the Other 2021” conference, Boston College, September 17-19,
2021.
“Enjoining Sympathies if not Understanding: Comparing British and American Responses to Italian
Appropriations of Dante around Italian Independence, Unification, and Nationalism.” Accepted
paper presentation for a session sponsored by Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies, “Forging
the Myth: Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century,” American Association of Italian Studies, virtual
conference, May 28-June 6, 2021.
“Early Women Readers of Dante in New England.” Accepted paper presentation for “Tra liti sì
lontani: Dante for the Americas,” virtual conference organized by Harvard University in
collaboration with the Dante Society of America, May 5-13, 2021.
“The Life of Judge John J Burns (1901-1957).” Video documentary produced in collaboration with
Belmont Media and presented via Zoom for the Belmont Historical Society, Belmont, MA, March
24, 2021.
“Inspirations from Dante’s Florence.” Invited lecture presented via Zoom and Facebook Live on
the occasion of the 214th anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, co-sponsored by
the Friends of Mt. Auburn Cemetery and Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National
Historic Site, February 27, 2021.
“Inferno 1: In the Dark Wood: Lost, but not Alone.” YouTube video discussion with Joseph Luzzi
for “Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time,” a collaborative initiative between
New York University’s Department of Italian Studies and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, and the
Dante Society of America, October 19, 2020.
“Dante and Phenomenology: A Sociology of Ideas.” Accepted paper presentation for “Psychology
and the Other 2019” conference, Boston College, October 4-6, 2019.
“Grammaires Italiennes.” Ticknor Society Roundtable presentation with Silvia Dupont, 40th Annual
Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, October 28-30, 2016.
“Women Readers of Dante: A New England Renaissance.” Accepted paper presented at a session
sponsored by the Dante Society of America at the 62nd annual meeting of the Renaissance Society
of America, Boston, MA, March 31-April 2, 2016.
“Dante Beyond the Comedy: Dante’s Eclogues.” Invited lecture for annual lectura dantis series,
Boston College, April 27, 2015.
“Charles Eliot Norton as Collector and Connoisseur.” Invited lectured for the Club of Odd
Volumes, Boston, MA, February 18, 2015.
“Charles Serrus and the Société des études philosophiques du sud-est: A Neglected Episode in the
French Reception of Husserl’s Phenomenology.” Accepted paper presented at the conference
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“Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition,” Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph,
April 13–15, 2014.
“Charles Serrus and the Société des études philosophiques du sud-est: A Neglected Episode in the
French Reception of Husserl’s Phenomenology.” Accepted paper presented at the North American
Society for Early Phenomenology conference, Boston College, April 4–6, 2014.
“To Hell and Back: Illustrating Dante’s Inferno.” Invited public lecture and “master class” for
students, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
November 13, 2013.
“Jean Hering and the Introduction of Husserl’s Phenomenology to France.” Accepted paper
presented at the North American Society for Early Phenomenology conference, University of
Western Ontario, London, ON, June 12–14, 2013.
“Collecting Dante from Tuscany: A Bibliographical Romance.” Invited Annual Dante Lecture,
Department of Italian Studies, Yale University, November 1, 2012.
“Longfellow’s Florence.” Paper delivered at the “Dante in the Nineteenth Century,” an invitational
conference organized by Stephen Prickett. Institute for English Studies, University of London,
Senate House, September 8, 2012.
“Longfellow and the Legacy of the Dante Club.” Invited lecture for the annual Longfellow birthday
celebration, co-sponsored by Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site,
the Friends of the Longfellow House, and the Dante Society of America. Mt Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, MA, February 25, 2012.
Respondent for a panel discussion and presentation of Dennis Looney, Freedom Readers: The African
American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame
Press, 2011) at the American Association of Italian Studies annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April
7–10, 2011.
“Charles Eliot Norton and the Rationale for American Dante Studies.” Accepted paper presented at
the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14, 2010.
“Reading and Collecting Dante in America.” Invited lecture for the Washington Area Group for
Print Culture Studies, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, October 2, 2009.
“Collecting and Reading Dante in the Nineteenth Century and the Birth of Italian Studies in
American Universities.” Invited lecture for Cinquant’anni Casalini libri: A North American Celebration,
hosted by The Newberry Library in cooperation with the Libraries of the University of Chicago and
Northwestern University, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, July 13, 2009.
“Seeing Through the Dark Woods.” Invited lecture to accompany the exhibition, L’arte d’alluminar:
Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the Tri-Colleges, Haverford College, February 9, 2009.
“Collecting Dante in Tuscany: A Bibliographical Tour.” Invited annual address for the
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, at the Virginia Festival of the Book, University
of Virginia, March 23, 2007.
“‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle’ & Other Advices for a New Director.” Invited
lecture at Rare Book School, University of Virginia, July 24, 2006.
“From the Middle Ages to Mazur: Picturing Dante’s Hell,” invited slide lecture at the colloquium
“Dante and the Inferno,” Bucks County Community College, October 14, 2005. Also gave a gallery
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talk on the installation of Michael Mazur’s Inferno etchings at the Hicks Art Center Gallery on the
BCCC campus.
“The Oneida Community Collection at Syracuse University Library,” with Kathleen Manwaring,
Peter Verheyen, and Nicolette Schneider. Invited lecture at Oneida Community Mansion House,
Oneida, NY, May 10, 2005.
“The Fiske Dante Collection: How, Why, and So What?” Invited lecture at Cornell University
Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 5, 2005.
“Scientific Publisher and Prognosticator: The Influential Career of Hugo Gernsback.” Invited
lecture at The Luxembourg House, New York, NY, November 3, 2004.
“From Medieval Manuscripts to Margaret Bourke-White: The Special Collections Research Center at
Syracuse University Library,” with William T. La Moy. Presentation at Syracuse University Joseph I.
Lubin House, New York, NY, March 10, 2004.
“Bringing Dante to America: Book Hunting and Bibliography in the Golden Age.” Syracuse
University Library, Syracuse University, March 6, 2003.
“Bringing Dante to America: Book Hunting and Bibliography in the Golden Age.” Invited lecture at
Rare Book School, University of Virginia, January 6, 2003.
“Opera del Vocabolario Database.” Presentation and demonstration at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Italian Studies, Philadelphia, April 21, 2001.
“Collecting Dante in America at the End of the 19th Century.” Invited lecture for the New Scholars
panel at the Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, New York City, January 26,
2001.
“Giulio Acquaticci e John Zahm: collezionisti di Dante.” Invited lecture at the conference “Quei
battenti sempre aperti: Gli Acquaticci e Treia nella cultura marchigiana,” Treia, Italy, November 4,
2000.
“Benefits of an On-Line Bookplate Catalog.” Accepted paper delivered at the 41st Annual ACRL
Rare Book and Manuscripts Section Preconference, “Beyond Words: Visual Information in Special
Collections,” Chicago, IL, July 5–7, 2000.
“Introducing FIOLA: Franco-Italian Online Archive” with Leslie Morgan and David Bénéteau at
the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
MI, May 6–9, 1999.
Respondent to Douglas Archer, “Religion and Intellectual Freedom,” at the annual conference of
the Indiana Library Federation in Indianapolis, IN, April 6, 1999.
“The Horror and the Charm: Sartre’s Discovery and ‘Invention’ of Phenomenology.” Accepted
paper presented at the biennial meeting of the North American Sartre Society at the University of
Loyola, Marymount in Los Angeles on February 12–14, 1999.
“I progetti delle Università di Chicago e di Notre Dame in ambito ItalNet,” with Theodore Cachey
and Mark Olsen at the Opera del vocabolario italiano, Villa Reale di Castello, Florence, Italy, May
20, 1998.
“Progetto Italica Corso di Lingua,” with Kevin Barry and Theodore Cachey at the Executive Board
Meeting of the Internet2 Consortium in Washington, DC, April 14–17, 1998.
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Panel participant, “Italian Studies on the World Wide Web,” organized by David Bénéteau at the
annual conference of the American Association of Italian Studies sponsored by Loyola University,
Chicago, April 2–5, 1998.
“From the Middle Ages to Mazur: A History of Inferno Illustrations.” Invited lecture at Bowdoin
College on February 20, 1997. Also gave a media presentation on Internet resources for Italian
studies.
Lectures and Presentations: Library Management
“Putting Irish Art and Music in Context.” Presenter, panel session, “Integrating Art and Music in the
Irish Studies Curriculum,” American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), Annual National Meeting,
Derry, Northern Ireland (virtual host), June 2-5, 2021. [upcoming; accepted]
“Management and Leadership in a Time of Cultural Climate Change.” Co-facilitated participant-led
session with Lisa Carter on senior management, ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
(RBMS) Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 18-21, 2019. [invited]
“Flann O’Brien: On the Archival Edge.” Presenter, panel session, “The Role of Libraries and
Archives in Building Irish Studies, American Conference for Irish Studies(ACIS), Annual National
Meeting, Boston, MA, May 20-23, 2019. [accepted]
“The Environments of Libraries and Archives in Irish Studies.” Presenter, panel session, “The
Environments of Libraries and Archives in Irish Studies 2: Special Collections and Archives in the
New Environment,” American Conference for Irish Studies(ACIS), Annual National Meeting, Cork,
Ireland, June 18-22, 2018. [accepted]
“Evidence-Based Practices and Assessment in Special Collections and Archives.” Preconference
workshop with Emilie Hardman, 9th International Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice
(EBLIP) conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, June 18-21, 2017. [invited]
“Blue-sky, Miles-high, Down-to-earth,” Presentation for Association of Jesuit Colleges and
Universities (AJCU), Library Deans and Directors Meeting, Regis University, Denver, CO, April 1720, 2016. [invited]
Roundtable participant, “Irish Collections in the Diaspora,” American Conference for Irish Studies
(ACIS), Annual National Meeting, Notre Dame, IN, March 30-April 3, 2016. [invited]
“Connecting Users, Pushing Limits.” Opening keynote address, first annual Aeon Symposium,
University of Michigan, June 16, 2016. [invited]
“‘Take Things Always by Their Smooth Handle’ And Give Them a Good Turn. Reflections on Life
and Libraries.” A talk for California Rare Book School presented at The Book Club of California,
San Francisco, 3 November 3, 2014. [invited]
“Privacy of Patron Records.” Presenter, panel session with Jackie Esposito for the Privacy and
Confidential Roundtable, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August
10-16, 2014. [invited]
“‘How are we doing?’ Improving Access through Assessment.” Presenter, panel session with Wendy
Duff, Carrie Hintz, and Jocelyn Wilk, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Washington,
DC, August 10-16, 2014. [accepted]
“Conducting Programmatic Assessment in Special Collections.” Organizer, presenter, and
moderator, seminar session with Nisa Bakkalbasi, Martha Conway, and Martha Kyrillidou, 55th
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Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries, Las Vegas, NV, June 27, 2014. [accepted]
“Making Library Assessment Practical.” A one-hour series of eight video presentations on
assessment principles and practices for academic libraries created for Atlas Systems Training
Solutions video library, 2014. [sponsored]
“The Future Meets the Past: Collaborative Resource Sharing Workflows for Special Collections
Materials.” Presentation for “The Future of Resource Sharing” conference presented by OCLC and
LYRASIS, Mercer University, Macon, GA, May 17, 2013. [invited]
“Capturing Transformative Engagement: Assessing the Impact of Special Collections and Archives
Instructional Outreach.” Organizer and moderator, panel session, 2013 national conference of the
Association of College & Research Libraries, Indianapolis, IN, April 11, 2013. [accepted]
“Strategically Managing Special Collections.” Chair and presenter for a conference organized by
Academic Impressions, Tampa, FL, November 27-28, 2012. [invited]
“Interlibrary Loan and Archives: The Final Frontier.” Co-organizer and presenter, panel session,
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 11, 2012. [accepted]
“Managing Special Collections: Service, Security, Statistics.” Organizer and moderator for a webcast
sponsored by Atlas Systems and Library Journal, July 31, 2012. [sponsored]
“Practically Speaking about Space and Workflow.” Presentation for “Outta Space: Best Practices in
Storage and Space Planning” conference, Cincinnati, OH, April 17, 2012, and Akron, OH, May 15,
2012. [invited]
“How Special is Your Library?: Special Collections and the Value of Academic Libraries.” Plenary
panel session with Sarah Pritchard and Lisa R. Carter, 52nd Annual Preconference of the Rare Books
and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA,
June 23, 2011. [invited]
“When Worlds Collide: Interlibrary Loan and Special Collections.” Organizer and moderator, panel
session with Barbara Coopey, Sandra Stelts, Kristine Shrauger, Lee Dotson, and Elizabeth Konzak,
Association of College and Research Libraries 2011 National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 1,
2011. [accepted]
“Borrowing and Lending Special Collections: New Guidelines, New Practices, New Horizons.”
Presentation with Denise Forro, 2011 ILLiad International Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, March
24, 2011. [accepted]
“‘What’s So Special about Special Collections?’ Or, Assessing the Value Special Collections Bring to
Academic Libraries.” Presentation with Elizabeth Yakel, 2010 Library Assessment Conference,
Baltimore, MD, October 26, 2010. [accepted]
“Enhancing Access to Special Collections through Inter-library Loan,” Panel presentation,
Northwest Archives Western Roundup Conference, Seattle, WA, April 30, 2010. [accepted]
“ILL for Archives and Special Collections: Enhancing Access to Rare and Unique Materials.”
Presentation with Kristine Shrauger, 2010 ILLiad International Conference, Virginia Beach, VA,
March 25, 2010. [accepted]
Remarks offered at the dedication of the Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room, Special Collections
Research Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, February 17, 2007. [invited]
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Respondent to Flora Nyland and Prudence Backman, “Creating an Electronic Research Collection
on New York’s Environmental History,” at the 26th Conference on New York State History, SUNY
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, June 19, 2005. [appointed]
“Special Collections and Library Administrators: Building Successful Relationships.” Moderator for
seminar presented at the 45th RBMS Preconference, “Ebb and Flow: The Migration of Collections
to American Libraries,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 21–24, 2004. Seminar panelists
included Alice Prochaska, Merrily Taylor, and Samuel Streit. [appointed]
Local discussion panelist following videoconference “The OAIS Imperative: Enduring Record or
Digital Dust?” with host Meg Bellinger, vice-president, OCLC Digital & Preservation Resources.
University of Notre Dame, April 19, 2002. [local]
“Digitization of a Special Collection,” with Sara Weber. Indiana Library Federation District I
Conference, University of Notre Dame, October 2, 2001. [accepted]
“Digital Libraries and Curricula,” with Louis Jordan at the Office of Information Technology “State
of IT Open House” at the University of Notre Dame, January 30, 1998. [local]
Grants and Sponsored Programs
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), served on advisory board for grant of $399,009
to School of Information, University of Michigan, for “Library as Research Lab: Immersive
Research Education and Engagement for LIS Students and Library Professionals,” Soo Young Rieh,
principal investigator, October 1, 2017–September 30, 2020.
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Recordings-at-Risk, Second Call, awarded
$30,775 for “Sounds of Mid-20th-century Irish-America: Preserving Historic Music Field
Recordings,” Kimberly C. Kowal and Elizabeth Sweeney, principal investigators, 2017-2018.
Worked closely with principal investigators to propose and manage project.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), matching grant of $96,589 to the Association of
College and Research Libraries for the 47th Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
Preconference “Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures: Libraries and Museums in the Twentyfirst Century,” held June 20–23, 2006 in Austin, TX. Funds provided 33 attendance scholarships for
new and aspiring professionals from library, archival, and museum fields, including one-third from
professionally underrepresented minorities, as well as support for speaker travel and honoraria and
conference logistics. Served as principal author of the grant proposal and as conference program
chair.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS), served on review panel for “Advancing Knowledge: The IMLS/NEH Digital Partnership”
program, 2006.
University of Notre Dame, Office of Research, Frank M. Kobayashi Travel Fund award to spend
the week of August 11–18, 2002, conducting archival research at Cornell University and Harvard
University related to the continuation of my project on “Collecting Dante in America at the End of
the Nineteenth Century.”
University of Notre Dame, Web Site Makeover Grant, with Theodore Cachey, to work with a
vendor to create a new version of the Devers Program in Dante Studies website, November 2001.
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University Libraries of Notre Dame, Paul R. Byrne Fund travel grant award to spend the week of
August 13–18, 2001, in residence at Cornell University conducting research on the papers of Daniel
Willard Fiske for a project titled “Collecting Dante in America: The Fiske Dante Library.”
University of Notre Dame, Devers Research Travel Grant to present lecture entitled Giulio
Acquaticci e John Zahm: collezionisti di Dante” at the conference “Quei battenti sempre aperti: Gli
Acquaticci e Treia nella cultura marchigiana,” Treia, Italy, November 4, 2000.
University of Notre Dame, Henkels Lecture Series Grant, 2000. Assisted John Sherman
(Department of Art, Art History and Design) and other Notre Dame faculty members in preparing
an application for funding a 3-day conference and concurrent exhibitions at the Snite Musuem of
Art and the University Libraries Department of Special Collections on the life, thought and work of
Eric Gill held at the University of Notre Dame in November, 2000.
North American Sartre Society, travel grant to attend and present a paper at the biennial meeting of
the North American Sartre Society at the University of Loyola, Marymount in Los Angeles on
February 12–14, 1999.
University of Notre Dame, Downes Travel Grant, October, 1994. For attending a course on
phenomenology offered by Jean-Luc Marion (Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne) at the University of
Chicago.
University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Seed Money Grant, Helen Kellogg Institute for International
Studies, November, 1993. Pre-dissertation research travel grant for five weeks of study at the Institut
Catholique de Paris.
University of Notre Dame, Zahm Travel Grant, November, 1993. For travel expenses related to
pre-dissertation research at the Institut Catholique de Paris.
Scholarships and Fellowships
Postgraduate:
Joan Nordell Visiting Fellowship, Houghton Library, Harvard
University, for project titled, “Collecting Dante at the End of the
Nineteenth Century: Harvard College Library.”
2003-2004
Graduate:
Graduate fellowship to attend Collegium colloquy, Fairfield
College, Fairfield Connecticut, June 4–12, 1993. Collegium is an
annual week-long summer institute sponsored by over 50 Catholic
colleges and universities to recruit and develop faculty who can
articulate and enrich the spiritual and intellectual life of their
institutions.
1993
Graduate Assistantship, University of Notre Dame
1990-1994
Library Service
Boston College Libraries, Boston College
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Collections Subcommittee
2020-
University Librarian’s Advisory Council
2014-
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University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia
Collections Steering Group
2007-2008
Administrative Council
2006-2008
Search Committee: Associate University Librarian for Public Services and
Collections
2006
Syracuse University Library, Syracuse University
Liaison to the Division of International Programs Abroad (DIPA)
2004-2006
Exhibits Action Team, Project Manager
2004
Search Committee, Chair: Reference and Access Services Librarian
2004
Search Committee, Chair: Curator of Rare Books and Printed Materials
2003
Search Committee: Senior Director of Development
2003
Administrative Committee (senior management committee)
2003-2006
University Librarian’s Cabinet (department heads group)
2003-2006
University Libraries, University of Notre Dame
Special Collections Renovation Committee
2001-2002
University Committee on Computing and Information Services
2000-2002
Web Management Team
2000-2002
Cornell University Digital Library site visitation team
2000
Ad Hoc Committee on Electronic Resources
1998-1999
Exlibris/Aleph Working Group
1999
EndNote Task Force
1999
Library Consultancies
As an adjunct consultant for LYRASIS, a non-profit library membership organization, I occasionally provided
consulting services for special collections libraries and archives in the areas of operational workflow assessment,
organizational management, and facilities design and renovation. My projects included the following:
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Special Collections Department, District of Columbia
Public Library, Washington, DC, August–October, 2013. General management consultation,
focusing especially on collecting areas and mission, collections processing, reference services, and
reading room management and security.
Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, February–June, 2012. Assessment of
the Albert Schweitzer collection.
Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Special Collections Division, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
NC, September–November, 2009. Comprehensive management consulting, including: personnel
management; collections assessment, management and development; digitization workflows and
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planning; public services and outreach; security and risk management; space utilization; funding and
support opportunities.
Charles C. Wise Jr. Library, West Virginia and Regional History Collection, West Virginia University
Libraries, Morgantown, WV, September–October 2008. Collections and space planning assessment,
including evaluation of HVAC, fire protection, and security systems and protocols.
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