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City: Ithaca, NY
Telephone:
  1-607-274-3889

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Science and Technology Literatures

Research Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Collections Development
  • Database and Other Retrieval Systems
  • Information Needs / Behaviors of the Public
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Science and Technology Literatures

Ron W. Gilmour

Lecturer

Ron Gilmour received his MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he also received his MS in biology. He is currently employed as science librarian at Ithaca College in upstate New York. He has also worked in similar capacities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the University at Albany.

Courses Taught

Education

  • MLS, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, May 1999
  • MS (Biology) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1996
  • BS, (Biology) Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1993

Academic & Professional Experience

  • University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Beals, Jennifer and Ron Gilmour. "Assessing Collections Using Brief Test and WorldCat Collection Analysis."Collection Building 26(4), 2007: 104-107.
  • Dolence, Travis and Ron Gilmour. "Libraries, Information, and Amateur Scientists." Technical Services Quarterly 23(3), 2006: 1-18.
  • Sapp, Gregg and Ron Gilmour. "A Brief History of the Future of Libraries: Predictions and Speculations from the Literature of the Profession, 1975 to 2000 (Part 2, 1990-2000)." Portal 3(1), 2003: 13-34.
  • Sapp, Gregg and Ron Gilmour. "A Brief History of the Future of Libraries: Predictions and Speculations from the Literature of the Profession, 1975 to 2000 (Part 1, 1975 to 1989)." Portal 2(4), 2002: 553-576.
  • "Serving XML: Practical Techniques for the Dissemination of Structured Electronic Information." Library Hi Tech 19(4), 2001: 408-414.
  • "XML Applications in the Sciences." Science & Technology Libraries 19(2), 2001: 75-89.
  • "Taxonomic Markup Language: Applying XML to Systematic Data." "Bioinformatics 16(4), 2000: 406-407.
  • "XML: A Guide for Librarians. LITA Guide #11. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003.
  • Foundations of Southeastern Botany: An Annotated Bibliography of Southeastern American Botanical Explorers Prior to 1824. Castanea Occasional Papers in Eastern Botany Number 1, December 2002.

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