Selected Publications

[accepted for conference and subsequent publication] “Reconstructing the Digital Past: A case study of the reconstruction of the lost Pittsburgh Project.”  DigCCurr2009, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2009.

[with R.B. Williams] “The states and printing history (1861-1864) of John Henry Gurney’s A descriptive catalogue of the raptorial birds in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum.”    Archives of Natural History 35(2): 339-359, 2008.

"Document Retention: Best Practices and Lessons Learned."  In Legal Issues in Museum Administration, 415-423.  Philadelphia, American Law Institute, American Bar Association, 2005.

Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls.  Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press., 2005.  Also published as Journal of Internet Cataloging, 7(1), 2005.

"Patterns of Identification of Potentially Sensitive Data in Natural History Museum Online Catalogs," Journal of Internet Cataloging, 7(1): 103-115, 2005.

[with Deborah Wythe] "Photographs." In Museum Archives: An Introduction, ed. D. Wythe, 123-140. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2004.

[with R. Thibadeau] "On Beyond Label Copy: Museum-library Collaboration in the Creation of a Smart Web Exhibit."  Conference proceedings of the Museums and the Web 2000.

"Common Names: Cooperative Access to Databased Natural History Information."  In Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems, ed. M.E. Bowden, T.B. Hahn and R.V. Williams, 84-93.  Medford: Information Today, 1999.

"A Collection of Collections: A History of the Library Collections at the New York Botanical Garden." Brittonia 47(1):44-56, 1995.

"Botanical Gardens." In The Encyclopedia of New York City, ed. Kenneth Jackson, 130-131. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

"Significant Departures: Turning Points in the History of Botanical Illustration." The Botanical Artist, 1(1):6-7, June 1995.

"Hypertext for Libraries: Snake Oil or Elixir?" Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Newsletter, no. 60:24-26, Spring 1995.

"Leonhardt Fuchs: De Historia Stirpium." In Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Memorial Collection in the Library of Congress, 381-382. Washington: Library of Congress, 1991.

"Exploring Natural History: Narratives of Scientific Expeditions." Orion, 10(4):50-56, Fall, 1991.

"Patronage and the Publication of Botanical Illustration." Antiques. 268-281, August 1989.

"John Parkinson and His Earthly Paradise." The Herbarist 49:51-5, 1983.

"Delectus Hutiana 5" [concerning the woodblock illustrations used in P.A. Matthioli's herbals]. Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation 4(1):4-5. 1982.

"The Persistence of Ephemera: Bibliographical Value of Part Wrappers." In History in the Service of Systematics, 15-22. London: Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1981.

Kate Greenaway: Catalog of an Exhibition of Original Artworks and Related Materials Selected from the Frances Hooper Collection at the Hunt Institute [with R. W. Kiger, et al.].Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh PA. 1980.

[with E.A. Mosimann] The Tradition of Fine Bookbinding in the 20th Century.  Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh PA, 1979.
"Ancients, Moderns, and Reliable Friends: Stated Sources of Some English Herbals." Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 8(4):435-444. 1978.

"Knorr's Thesaurus." Taxon 25(1):145-150. 1976.

[with A. DeKlerk]  "A Regional Resource Directory -- Why Include Special Libraries?" Special Libraries 67(8):367-370. 1976.

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