Institutional Service

University of Pittsburgh.  School of Information Sciences.  Visiting Assistant Professor, 2007 -
Carnegie Museum of Natural History Library.  Museum Librarian, 1995-

• Project manager for Museum Library relocation, 2003-2005.
• Site supervisor for graduate students specializing in archives and library science from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences and Duquesne University’s Public History: Archival, Museum and Editing Studies.  Students have produced many of the finding guides describing the Museum’s archival collections. 
• Coordinator of the Oakland Library Consortium's Preservation Working Group's Preservation Fair in 2002, 2000 and 1999.
• Initiated the addition of the catalog records of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Library to the eiNetwork online catalog.

New York Botanical Garden Library.  Research Librarian.  1987-1994.

• Project Manager for the online catalog project, responsible for specification, selection, installation, documentation and training. The resulting catalog, CATALPA, was the first major botanical library to be available via the Internet.
• Co-curator of "Nature's Mirror: 200 Years of Botanical Illustration."  This exhibition was a collaborative effort of the New York Botanical Garden, the New York Public Library and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and included original botanical art and published works from all three collections.    Over 122,000 visitors viewed the exhibition, mounted at the New York Public Library, during the summer of 1989.
• Consultant on library automation, collection development and management for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY and the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL.

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.  Librarian, 1977-1987. Assistant Librarian, 1971-1977.

• Co-curator "The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the 20th Century," an international exhibition and associated seminar held in 1979. 
• Exhibition catalog by B.G .Callery and E.A.Mosimann, The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the 20th century, published by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA, 1979.
• Co-curator of “Incipit: Botanical Title-pages,”  1976

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