Hugh A. Blackmer

Education

1991-1992	Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information 
                Science (M.S.L.I.S. May 1992)
1986-1990	Institute for Writing and Thinking, Bard College (five 
                writing workshops)
1969-1972	Department of Anthropology, Stanford University 
                (M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1976)
1967-1969	International Development Education Center (SIDEC), 
                Stanford University
1961-1965	Harvard College (A.B. Anthropology)

Honors

1993		Elected to Beta Phi Mu (Library Science Honor Society)
1992		Nominated by Simmons College for Library of Congress 
                Intern Program
1991		Annual Conference Award Recipient, New England Chapter 
                of the American Society for Information Science
1979-80	        Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (sabbatical leave)

Employment history

1996-		Science Librarian, Washington & Lee University
1992-1996       Reference Librarian and Coordinator of Bibliographic
		Instruction; Assistant Professor, Washington & Lee
		University
1991-1992	Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information 
  		Science, Microcomputer Laboratory Supervisor and Teaching 
		Assistant
1973-1991	Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia  CANADA
		Lecturer (1973-1976) and Assistant Professor of Anthropology 
		(tenure granted 1977); Head, Department of Sociology 1988-1990
1989, 1990	Acadia University, Elderhostel Instructor (World Music)
1986-1987	Northfield Mount Hermon School, Visiting Teacher (World 
		History, Ancient History, Geography)
1970-1971	Stanford University, Teaching Assistant in Anthropology
1965-1967	Peace Corps Volunteer in Sarawak, Malaysia (community 
		development and film making)
1964-1965	Harvard University, Laboratory Assistant in Still Photography
1962-1964	Research Assistant (preparation of data for Robert B. Textor 
		A Cross-Cultural Summary, HRAF Press 1965)

Languages

Courses taught at Washington & Lee

Public lecture

Intern supervision

Committee service at Washington & Lee

Papers and publications

1995	Review of Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (College and Research
	Libraries News [June])
1994	Review of HungerWeb (College and Research Libraries News [September])
1994	Gophers and Beyond in Library Instruction at Washington & Lee
	(presentation at Virginia Library Association Library Instruction and
	Microcomputer Interest Forum, University of Richmond [May])
1994	Electronic Access at Washington & Lee (presentation with John 
        Doyle at Computers in Libraries, Crystal City VA [March])
1993	Writing and the New Technology for Research. Writing in the 
	Disciplines (May)
1991	Effects of the Proposed NREN on Information Dissemination (NEASIS 
	Newsletter)
1989	Human Geographical and Political Boundaries of the Indian 
        Subcontinent.  Symposium on South Asia, Acadia University.
1988 	Invited speaker, Pictou County  Social Studies Teachers In-Service 
        Conference, N.S.
1985	"How we use our resources" (Chapter on agricultural change for a 
   	high school textbook, The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge and Change) 
	Toronto:James Lorimer.
1983	Family Farms in the Annapolis Valley.  Paper presented at a 
	conference on Science, Technology and the Maritime Small Farm, Halifax.
1977	A Progress Report on Research in Nova Scotia Surname Geography.  
	Paper presented at meetings of the Atlantic Association of 
	Anthropologists and Sociologists, Wolfville, N.S.
1975	Agricultural Transformation in a Regional System: the Annapolis 
	Valley, Nova Scotia.  (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford).
1974	Regional Landscapes in a Colonial Export Economy: the last century 
	in Nova Scotia.  Paper presented at meetings of American 
	Anthropological Association, Mexico City.
1973	Colonel Chicken in the Maritimes: the growth of Nova Scotia's 
	broiler industry.  Paper presented at meetings of the Atlantic 
	Association of Anthropologists and Sociologists, Halifax.
1968	Infrastructure and Development in Sarawak.  Paper presented at 
	meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Berkeley.

Electronic documents and computing activities

• March 1993: began work on materials for the W&L gopher, concentrating initially on library pathfinders. The gopher went up in May 1993 and is no longer in active use, but can still be seen at gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu (most of the 'Libraries and Information Access' and 'Explore Internet Resources' are my work)

• Fall 1993: experimented with a USENET group for EAS190, produced gopher texts as support tools for various classes (e.g., Ham Smith's Journalism 203, Guide to Religion Reference Materials at W&L, Library Resources for Biology at W&L: a guide)

• Winter 1994: work with UNIX, gopher maintenance. Presentation (with John Doyle) at Computers in Libraries meeting (abstract available: http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/reapp/meck.html); W&L's WWW server set up by John Doyle (provided text-only lynx access to the WWW)

• March 1994: began work with HTML and the NCSA Mosaic browser; digitized Traveller

• April 1994: my first instructional weblet, to support a bibliographic instruction session in David Parker's Latin American history classes (still exists at http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/latam.html); another for Psychology 395 (no longer in existence)

• May 1994: presentation to VLA Library Instruction and Microcomputer Interest Forum, on electronic access at W&L, still at http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/vla/vla.html

• Summer 1994: extensive reorganization of the W&L web site (mostly still at http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/newhome/); faculty-staff workshops on web document creation in June and August; Planning EAS 190 for Fall 1994 (a URL distributed to EAS faculty for comment)

• Fall 1994: work with Netscape and helpers: telnet client, image software, molecular modeling, Adobe Acrobat, sound, GhostScript, video software (each of these to solve specific class presentation problems, or explore new functionality that might be applicable to teaching); Codex and Computer (http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/eng301/codex.html) and Information Retrieval (http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/eng301/usingmla.html) for English 301, and a presentation for Kary Smout's English 101 (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/eng101a/kary.html); a bibliographic guide for East Asian Studies (http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/eas/easwl.html).

• Winter 1995: much management of the W&L web site: experimentation with forms (for InterLibrary Loan), weblets of links for comparison, how-to pages for W&L users, exemplary applications (still at http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/newhome/exemplary.html). Hypertext version of my reappointment documents (http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/reapp/intro.html).

• Spring 1995: W&L personal home pages, imagemaps, tables, twinsock and remote access support (Netscape on faculty home machines); Oxford English Dictionary weblet (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/oed/oedtrial.html), in part for a demonstration to the English Department faculty; Scientific visualization weblet for a course co-taught with Tyler Lorig (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/scivis/visintro.html)

• Summer 1995: new W&L homepage and extensive reorganization (index at http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~hblackme/sum95/); managing expect scripts for FirstSearch; limiting directory access to W&L users; faculty-staff workshops in June and August (still at http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/workshop/workshops.html); Electronic help at W&L

• Fall 1995: exploring HTML editors, teaching HTML to reference colleagues; emacs calendar converter and chronology work for David Parker; Howe 19th century chemistry collection weblet (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/howe/); SQUIDs and Lie groups for Physics and Engineering 100 (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/phys100/intro.html); Quantum mechanics weblet (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/quantum/).

• Winter 1996: exploring Java; clientside applications; glimpse to index local databases (video and CD holdings made searchable: http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/video/ http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/cds/)

• Spring 1996: Acrobat Exchange to create .pdf files; Negritude homepage and griot weblet (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/negritude/ and http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/griot/griot.html)

• Summer 1996: supervised departmental home page creation; Alumni College (http://www.wlu.edu/~pvermeer/alumni/ for entry); Summer Scholars weblet (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/sumscholars/); literature access for Math and Computer Science R.L. Lee group (http://www.wlu.edu./~hblackme/whaley/)

• Fall 1996: Science Library homepage (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/scilib/); I also maintain a facility for searching tables of contents of Physics journals (http://www.wlu.edu/~hblackme/physjour/ --indexed with glimpse).