University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Champaign, IL
Certificate of Advanced Study candidate, anticipated completion May 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Champaign, IL
Master of Science in Library and Information Science, May 2006
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Graduate Student at Large, 2001 — 2004
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Bachelor of Science in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, May 2001
Minors: Cognitive Science and Applied Computer Science
Certificate in University Honors
City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Associate in Arts in General Studies with High Honors, 1990
Intellectual and historical foundations of Information Organization
Classificatory structures
Vocabulary construction and use in Information Organization [see Authority Control below]
Authority control [class presentation 1 class presentation 2 lit review class presentation 3
Relationships in Information Organization [annotated bibliography class presentation 1 class presentation 2]
Training and education of catalogers and metadata specialists [annotated bibliography]
Information as a concept
Visiting Serials Cataloger
Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library, Content and
Access Management
October 2008 — Present
Serials Cataloging Academic Hourly
Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration
UIUC Library, Content and Access Management
August — October 2008
Monographic Cataloging Graduate Assistant
UIUC Library, Content and Access Management
May 2007 — August 2008
Serials Cataloging Graduate Assistant
UIUC Library, Content and Access Management
August 2006 — August 2008
Thesaurus Maintainer Graduate Assistant
Illinois Fire Service Institute, Library
October 2006 — May 2007
Instructional Technology Graduate Assistant
Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), UIUC
August 2004 — December 2006
Milner Library, Illinois State University
Library Technical Assistant I
August 2001 — August 2004
Milner Library, Illinois State University
Student Supervisor
October 2000 — May 2001
Milner Library, Illinois State University
Student Assistant — General Reference Desk
Summer 2000
Milner Library, Illinois State University
Student Assistant — Circulation
August 1998 — May 2001
United States Army, United States and Europe
1978 — 1998
Beta Phi Mu, Alpha Chapter, October 2006 — Present
Peggy Harris Award, GSLIS, UIUC, Champaign, IL, May 2006
Distinguished Alumni, Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University (ISU), October 2004
Outstanding Senior of the Year, Department of Philosophy, ISU, 2000 — 2001
Certificate in University Honors, ISU, Fall 2000
Honors Scholarship, Honors Program, ISU, Summer 2000
Golden Key National Honor Society, Fall 1999 — Life
Dean's List, ISU, Fall 1998 and Fall 1999, ISU
Honor Graduate Certificate, Recruiting Course, U.S. Army, 1991
Distinguished Graduate Diploma, Advanced Electronics Repair Supervisors Course, U.S. Army, 1991
Honor Graduate Diploma, Electronics Repair Supervisors Course, U.S. Army, 1987
Honor Graduate Certificate, Leadership Development Course, U.S. Army, 1986
Honor Graduate Diploma, Fixed Station Radio Repairer Course, U.S. Army, 1982
Co-presented with Jodi Schneider, Science Library Specialist, Amherst College. "Zotero: Manage Citations, Make Bibliographies & Join the Web of Data," to ASIST@UIUC Student Group, Champaign, IL, 2 March 2008
Report from the 2nd meeting of the Library of Congress' Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Metadata Roundtable, GSLIS, UIUC, 23 May 2007
Thoughts on the 2nd meeting of the Library of Congress' Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, to Cataloging Working Group, University Library, UIUC, 17 May 2007
"What LIS Blogs Should Could I Be Reading?: Or how to keep your finger on the pulse of the library world, how best to keep yourself sane while doing so, and how you can contribute" to ASIST@UIUC Student Group, Champaign, IL, 19 February 2007
Panel discussion on the topic of careers, Alumni Day 2003, Department of Philosophy, ISU, 17 October 2003
Member of panel presentation, Tagging as a Communication Device: The Impact of Communities on Transforming Tag Information. ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, 27 October 2008
Zotero: Manage Citations, Make Bibliographies & Join the Web of Data, co-presented with Jodi Schneider, Science Library Specialist, Amherst College to ASIST@UIUC Student Group, Champaign, IL, 2 March 2008
Report from the 2nd meeting of the Library of Congress' Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Metadata Roundtable, GSLIS, UIUC, 23 May 2007
Thoughts on the 2nd meeting of the Library of Congress' Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, to Cataloging Working Group, University Library, UIUC, 17 May 2007
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Element Set revision, Metadata Roundtable, GSLIS, UIUC, 21 February 2007
Implementing Voyager Course Reserves at Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization A Users Group, Kanakakee, IL, 24 July 2003
Developing Standards for Course Reserves in Voyager at EndUser 2003, Chicago, IL, April 2003
Pfeiffer, Heather D., Emma Tonkin, Mark R. Lindner, David R. Millen, and Margaret E. I Kipp. 2008. "Tagging as a Communication Device: Every Tag Cloud has a Silver Lining." In Proceedings of the 71st ASIS&T Annual Meeting, ed. Andrew Grove, 45:645-651. Vol. 45. Columbus, OH: Richard B. Hill, October 27.
Lindner, Mark R. 2009. "John M. Budd, Self-examination: The present and future of librarianship, Libraries Unlimited, Westport, CT (2008) 281 pp. $60.00. ISBN 9781591585916 (pbk) (beta phi mu monograph series)." [book review] Library & Information Science Research 31, no. 1 (January): 70-71.
Article summary of Jarvie, I.C. "On the Limits of Symbolic Interpretation in Anthropology." Current Anthropology December, 1976 Vol. 17(4):687-701. Written for the Public Anthropology Anthropology Journal Archive Project. Fall 2003.
"Education for a Lifetime." Milner Memos: The Monthly Newsletter of Milner Library's Faculty and Staff, No. 161, March 2004, pp. 7-8.
"News from Alums." Alumni Newsletter, Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University, Volume 8 Spring 2004, pp. 3-4. [pdf]
habitually probing generalist, my personal and professional blog. Previously known as Off the Mark.
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Classroom Assistant — Library Instruction, Milner Library, ISU, January 2003 — August 2004
Liaison to Media Resource Center for Course Reserves in Voyager, Milner Library, ISU, July 2002 — May 2004
Trained Reserve staff on Endeavor Voyager, Milner Library, ISU, June—July 2002
Teaching Assistant, Philosophy 138, Moral and Social Values (Dr. Jeffrey Carr), ISU, Fall 2000
Tutor, Finite Math, ISU, Spring 1999
Tutor, Symbolic Logic, ISU, Fall 1998
Master Fitness Trainer, U.S. Army, 1988 — 1998
Papers, panels and posters reviewer for American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting 2009, Spring 2009
Member, American Society for Information Science & Technology Standards Committee, November 2006 — 2008
Information Officer/Webmaster, ACRL@UIUC Student Chapter April, 2005 — September 2006
Conference Assistant, Library History Seminar XI, 27—30 October 2005
Conference Assistant, European Modernism and the Information Society, 6—8 May 2005
Student Representative, University Library Committee, ISU, March 1999 — May 2001
Team Leader, 2000 Spring Passages, Office of Student Life, ISU, January 2000
Vice-President, Philosophy Club, ISU, 1998 — 1999
Volunteer, Office of Disability Concerns, ISU, 1998 — 2001
Team Leader, 1999 Fall Passages, Office of Student Life, ISU, August 1999
Team Leader, 1999 Spring Passages, Office of Student Life, ISU, January 1999
American Library Association, 2003 — 2009
ALA Student Chapter, 2004 — Present
ACRL@UIUC Student Division, Charter Member, 2004 — Present
ASIS&T Student Chapter, 2005 — Present
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, 2005 — 2009
American Society for Information Science & Technology, 2005 — Present
Beta Phi Mu, Alpha Chapter, 2006 — Present
Illinois Library Association, 2006 — 2009
International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication, 2007 — Present
International Society for Knowledge Organization — North American chapter, 2007 — Present
Library & Information Technology Association, 2006 — 2009
North American Serials Interest Group, 2007 — 2008
Philosophy of Science Association, 2001 — 2010
Experienced with: MARC formats, AACR2r, LCSH, LCC, DCC, Ex Libris' Voyager, OCLC Connexion, Serials and monographic cataloging, CONSER standards, Micosoft Word and Powerpoint, XHTML, HTML, CSS, Thesaurus standards, MultiTes
Familiar with: XML, Dublin Core, MODS, TEI, Topic Maps, OAI-PMH, Oxygen XML editor, Microsoft Access and Excel
Cataloging and Classification I (LIS507) with Linda Bial
Cataloging & Classification II (LIS577) with Kathryn La Barre
Practicum (LIS591) in Cataloging at Illinois Fire Service Institute with Elizabeth McDonald
Indexing & Abstracting (LIS590I) with Frank KellermanThesaurus Construction (LIS590TC) with Pauline Atherton Cochrane
Classification Systems for the Organization of Knowledge (LIS590CS) with Pauline Atherton Cochrane
Enumerative, Descriptive, Historical and Textual Bibliography (LIS590EB) with Sid Berger
Representing and Organizing Information Resources (LIS590RO) with Kathryn La Barre
Metadata in Theory and Practice (LIS590MD) with Jerome McDonough
Information Modeling (LIS590IM) with Allen Renear
Ontologies in Humanities (LIS590OH) with Allen Renear
Topic Maps: Theory & Practice (LIS590TM) with Patrick Durusau
Foundations of Information Processing in LIS (LIS452) with David Dubin — Python programming
Ontology Dvelopment (LIS590OD) with Allen Renear (currently)
Topics in Subject Access (LIS590SA) with Pauline Cochrane and Kathryn La Barre (currently)
Course descriptions available here.