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Indeed, the recent explosion of digital humanities resources has made some aspects of research easier. At the same time, however, access to and selection of content is fast becoming a daunting and unwieldy undertaking for scholars who heavily rely on a proliferation of databases and other electronic resources in their university digital repositories. The most time-consuming and often most maddening aspect of research today is fishing out precisely the right information from a deepening sea of information. And, getting lost in these waters is easy. This can lead to loss of time, energy and, most important, a loss of confidence and control in a research endeavor. Like Sisyphus, enormous energies are spent pushing a boulder uphill, only to see it inevitably roll down before reaching the summit. This is one of the reasons why, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, “a disturbing 50 percent of doctoral students leave graduate school without finishing.” I personally know some of them. Naturally, there are many and varied reasons for this. Some never finish, for instance, because their project is ill-defined, poorly structured, thinly researched or even sloppily edited. And, in many cases, the work may lack basic and foundational research, due to a lack of knowledge of databases, source material and search strategies.
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I’ve seen projects either unravel or be abandoned that might have succeeded if the person was given direction, or good advice at the right time. I know I have benefited from the right tutelage, by the right person at the right time.
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It can be difficult to bring precision, integration and efficiency to a research project, a discovery layer, a knowledgebase, a digital repository, or an integrated library system/service. That often comes, however, with an experienced, guiding hand.
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If you are seeking an information specialist with the skills to help improve your ILS, help researchers, or improve discovery logic, kindly contact me, and we can discuss whether I can help.
EDUCATION
Pontificia Universitas A. S. Thomae in Urbe, Rome, Italy
Doctor of Theology, summa cum laude
MARKS OF EXCELLENCE
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Master of Library and Information Sciences
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude
The Leonard Rapport Modern Archives Institute Scholarship
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
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Preconference Scholarship Award
American Library Association,
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
H. W. Wilson Fellowship
(awarded for demonstrated academic potential)
University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences
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Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut
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NACO trained and certified to create and edit authority records according to the Library of Congress' Partnership of Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) standards.
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The Chemistry of Energy Conversion
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