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Working with humans and information.
1970-2000 (Retired). Reference Librarian and Faculty Member Emeritus. Instructor in Humanities Division and Instructor in Social Sciences Division, Green River Community College, Auburn, Washington.
What I did for 30 years:
Answer reference questions, provide bibliographic instruction to individuals and groups, help individual students develop term papers, speeches, and other classroom projects, including topic selection, research and bibliography. Design information search strategies in UMI ProQuest Databases, including Social Sciences, SIRs, Encarta 1995, InfoTrac, Health InfoTrac, and Internet e-mail; and collection development. Teach wide variety of humanities classes, including Library 100, Communications classes: Language of Television, Advertising Language, Television Advertising, the Vietnam War and the Media using multimedia approaches. Also various special offerings, cinema, etc. Serve on various committees--e.g. tenure review, hiring, self-study committee for college reaccreditation.
In recent years my communications classes have been sought after by a multicultural population with a need to perfect both written and spoken English skills. Instructional methods include analysis of American cultural artifacts such as movies, television programs and commercials; assessment techniques emphasize short paragraph writing skills. Gender and ethnic stereotyping common in these artifacts is explored and analyzed.
Also, frequent guest lecturer in Business, English, Mass Media and History classes on advertising, writing and literature, and use of family history. Bibliographic and filmographic aide to instructors designing curriculum.
Now I teach History 120, the History of Movies, a telecourse, and History 150, the History of the Vietnam War, an on-line class.
M.L.S. degree from the University of Washington with distinction. B.A. in English (Writing) from the University of Washington.
Guest lecturer in American literature at Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney Virginia, 1992 and 1993. Lectured at Center for Continuing Education, University of Notre Dame, December 2-4, 1993, in program, "The United States and Vietnam: From War to Peace." Delivered papers at Popular Culture Association Conferences on the Literature of the Vietnam War. Lectured in 1986 at Manchester Polytechnic Institute at a conference called Cultural Effects of the Vietnam War. Organizer of Vietnam War Writer's Symposia for twelve years at Green River Community College.
Publications: Author of REMF Diary, The REMF Returns, In the Army Now: A Novel of War and Love. An editor of Viet Nam War Generation Journal. Poetry published in Owen Wister Review, Spring and Fall 1992. Poem published in Journal of American Culture: Studies of a Civilization, Fall 1993. Co-editor of 3rd Edition of Vietnam War Literature: a Bibliography. Consultant and contributor to Malo and William's Vietnam War Filmography. Subject of journalistic piece "Winning Harks and Minds, published in Kregg P. J. Jorgenson's Beaucoup Dinky Dau. Many other articles and reviews in professional journals as well as in popular publications such as American Collector.