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My current research can broadly be characterized as collection and user studies. I am a co-investigator in the IMLS funded two-year research into the whys and hows of the information seeking process. Presently, I am engaged in describing the attributes of collections unique to individual OCLC member libraries.
A recent collections project of mine examined the impact of the availability of electronic formats on cancellations of periodical subscriptions in research libraries. Another project characterized Web-based information sources in public libraries.
I joined OCLC as postdoctoral fellow in 1985. My past research projects examined book use patterns and interlibrary loan use, including the availability of full-text as an alternative to ILL. I have also conducted systematic studies of workflow and throughput measures in cataloging and interlibrary loan operations in more than twenty libraries. This work included the study of the Cataloging-in-Publication operation at the Library of Congress in 1992.
Publications
"At risk materials—unidentified last copy monographs." 2006. With Lynn Silipigni Connaway and Edward T. O’Neill. College & Research Libraries, 67,4 (July): 370-379. Pre-print available online at: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2006/connaway-crl07.pdf (PDF:151K/24pp.).
"Characteristics, uniqueness, and overlap of information sources linked from North American public library Web sites." 2005. With Raymond D. Irwin. First Monday, 10,8 (1 August) http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/prabha/index.html.
"Public libraries on the Web: an assessment of services." 2003. With Raymond D. Irwin. Public Libraries, 42,4, 255-260.
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