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Guest lecture by Bob Kieft on April 10 - Register Now

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Posted by GSLIS, March 17, 2008
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Special presentation by BOB KIEFT, General Editor of the forthcoming edition of Guide to Reference (formerly Guide to Reference Books).

April 10, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Kotzen Center, Simmons College

RSVP at http://gslis.simmons.edu/signup/ - registration is required.

Biography of Bob Kieft: Bob Kieft is Director of College Information Resources and Librarian of the College at Haverford College, where he has worked in various capacities since 1988. Prior to Haverford, he worked as a library assistant and librarian at Stanford University (1974-1988). He received his bachelor’s degree in English at Hope College, his doctorate in drama at Stanford, and his master’s of library and information science at the University of California-Berkeley. He has published articles and reviews in Choice, ARBA, College and Research Libraries, and Reference Services Review and is the General Editor of the forthcoming edition of Guide to Reference (formerly Guide to Reference Books), on which he has presented to library and LIS groups around the country. He has worked of late with a group of libraries on a catalog record enhancement project called RichCat, and he currently administers grants to the Tri-College consortium to explore joint collection development / management strategies and, as a member of its Executive Committee, to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries for assessment of un- and under-cataloged archival collections. He is generally interested in issues of resource sharing and has presented on cooperative collection development at ALA and Charleston Conferences and in the collection development course offered online by the University of Illinois.