Current positions

Current memberships

  • AAM: American Association of Museums
  • ASA: American Society for Aesthetics
  • ARLIS/NA: Art Libraries Society of North America
  • ICOM's CIDOC: International Committee for Museum Documentation
  • IFLA's Classification and Indexing Section
  • SIG/CR: ASIS&T's Special Interest Group on Classification Research
  • SIG/HFIS: ASIS&T's Special Interest Group on the History and Foundations of Information Science
  • ISKO: International Society for Knowledge Organization
  • ALA's LHRT: Library History Round Table
  • SAA's Visual Materials Section
  • VRA: Visual Resources Association

Employment

  • 2006-: Associate professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2006: Visiting fellow, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
  • 2005-06: Assistant editor, Dewey Decimal Classification, Washington, DC
  • 1998-2005: Assistant professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1995-98: Lecturer, School of Information and Media [now Department of Information Management], Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
  • 1994-95: Research fellow, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
  • 1991-94: Research assistant, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
  • 1989-90: Customer services executive, Maxwell Online [now Questel], London, UK
  • 1988-89: Library assistant, University of London Library, UK
  • 1987-88: Analyst/programmer, Midland Montagu Treasury Management [now HSBC], London, UK

Education

  • 1994: Ph.D., Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
  • 1991: M.Sc., Information Management, University of Sheffield, UK
  • 1987: B.A. (now M.A.), Philosophy / Social and Political Sciences, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK

Last updated 2008.06.24