Ron Gilmour

Experience

Science Librarian, Ithaca College, July 2007-present

• Serve patrons at the reference desk, also providing consultative reference services to IC faculty and students
• Collection development and bibliographic instruction for biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and computer science
• Maintain online subject guides for my areas of responsibility

Instructor, School of Information and Library Science, San José State University, Fall 2008-present. Teach online course in XML.

Science & Technology Coordinator, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, September 2002-2007

• Managed $2.9 million acquisition budget for science and technology materials as well as various endowment funds
• Provided leadership to the Science & Technology Subject Group, including supervision of four full-time librarians
• Collection development for botany, ecology & evolutionary biology, and mathematics
• Served patrons at the reference desk

Adjunct faculty member, University at Albany School of Information Science and Policy, 2000-2002. Taught introductory course on Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Science Reference Librarian Assistant Librarian, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1999-2002

• Served patrons at the Science Library reference desk
• Managed collection budgets for geology and chemistry
• Served as primary contact and technical support for SciFinder Scholar

Education

University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science, MLS, May 1999. Chapel Hill, NC

University of North Carolina, MS in biology, 1996. Chapel Hill, NC

Florida State University, BS in biology, 1993. Tallahassee, FL

Continuing Education

Introduction to Website Usability – February 2008, ACRL E-Learning Course

Introduction to Molecular Biology Information Resources – March 14-16, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

• Andrew Darby and Ron Gilmour. “Adding Delicious Data to Your Library Website.” Information Technology & Libraries 28(2), June 2009: 100-103.
• Jennifer Beals and Ron Gilmour. “Assessing Collections Using Brief Test and WorldCat Collection Analysis.” Collection Building 26(4), 2007: 104-107. This paper was selected as a "Highly Commended Paper" by the editors of Collection Building.
• Travis Dolence and Ron Gilmour. “Libraries, Information, and Amateur Scientists.” Technical Services Quarterly 23(3), 2006: 1-18.
• Gregg Sapp 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.
• Gregg Sapp 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.

Articles Published in Non-refereed Journals

• “Old Wine in New Skins: Thoughts on Academic Library Web Guides.” College & Research Library News 71(7), 2010.
• Ron Gilmour and Jennifer Strickland. “Social Bookmarking for Library Services.” College & Research Libraries News 70(4), 2009.

Books

• 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.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

• “Paleontology” in Linda Ackerson (ed.), Literature Search Strategies for Interdisciplinary Research: a Sourcebook for Scientists and Engineers. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
• “Supplementary Bibliography” in Deleuze, J.P.F. Memoirs of the Life and Botanical Travels of André Michaux, edited with an introduction, notes and supplementary study materials by
  Charlie Williams. Charlotte, NC: Fourbears Press for the André Michaux International Symposium, 2002.

Reviews

I have published a number of book reviews in Choice, E-streams, and other library publications.

Selected Professional Presentations

• Libraries, Information, and the Amateur Scientist – poster presented with Travis Dolence at the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, 26 June, 2004.
• XML – presented at Ohio State University as part of their “Technology for the Rest of Us” series of lectures in May of 2004.
• XML and Libraries – Regional Institute for the Library & Information Technology Association, presented at eleven US locations from 2002-2005.