Sheila Intner

Sheila Intner Professor Emerita

Professor Intner consults in collection development and presents workshops in the United States and abroad. Intner was awarded a Fulbright to Israel and the Republic of Georgia. Intner recently presented a paper at the Director's Tribune on the Public Library in the 21st Century in China. Her latest book is about cataloging in special libraries and she is working on a third edition of her cataloging textbook. She writes a column for Technicalities, a newsletter for librarians and database managers and a scholarly book series titled Frontiers of Access to Library Materials. She serves on the editorial boards of two scholarly journals and reviews manuscripts for several publishing houses. Intner is very active in the American Library Association governing council, the education committee, Spectrum Initiative, presidential advisory committee on Weblink Guidelines, and the development of a list of core competencies for the profession. In addition, Intner was a founding member of the academic relationship the GSLIS has with Mount Holyoke College. She recently served as president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of ALA.

Teaching Areas

LIS 415: Information Organization
LIS 418: Technical Services
LIS 447: Collection Maintenance
LIS 453: Collection Development and Management
LIS 479: Professional and Scholarly Writing

Selected Publications

Series editor for Frontiers of Access to Library Materials, no. 6, Preservation Program Blueprint, by Barbara B. Higginbotham and Judith W. Wild (Chicago: American Library Association, 2001).
Edited the following journal issues:
Technicalities, vol. 20, no. 3 (May/June 2000). Technicalities, vol. 20, no. 4 (July/August 2000).
"Waiting for E-Godot." Technicalities, v. 20, no. 3 (May/June, 2000): 2-3.
"From the Editor's Desk." Technicalities, v. 20, no. 4 (July-Aug. 2000): 2-3.
"Dollars and Sense: Changing Times." Technicalities, v. 20, no. 5 (Sep./Oct. 2000): 5-7.
"Dollars and Sense: Over the Rainbow." Technicalities, v. 20, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2000): 3-5.
"Dollars and Sense: Objectifying Subjectivity." Technicalities, v. 21, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2001): 3-7.
"Dollars and Sense: Gen X vs. Gen Y, Library Style." Technicalities, v. 21, no. 2 (March/April, 2001), 3-6

Books and Book Chapters

Standard Cataloging for School and Public Libraries, 3rd edition (Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2001).
"Educating Public Librarians in the United States of America: Curricular Coverage and the Demands of the Job." In Proceedings of the Directors Tribune on Public Libraries in the Twenty-first Century (Hangzhou, China: Zhejiang Province Library, 2000).

Speeches and Conference Presentations

"Over the Rainbow." October 15, 2000. Seattle, WA. Invited paper at the Second Joint Conference of Online Audiovisual Catalogers and Music OCLC Users Group.
Discussion Group Leader for "Needs in the Future for Continuing Education for Catalogers," at the Library of Congress's Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control, November 15-17, 2000.
"Educating Public Librarians in the United States of America: Curricular Coverage and the Demands of the Job." November 18-20, 2000. Invited paper delivered at the Director's Tribune on the Public Library in the 21st Century, a conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Zhejiang Provincial Library, Hangzhou, China.
"Evaluating Library Collections." One-day workshop sponsored by Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. November 11, 2000.
"Building Better Library Collections: A Workshop for Faculty and Librarians." Half-day workshop sponsored by Salem State College Library. January 10, 2001.

Consultant/Professional Activities

Directed an evaluation of library collections at Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, MA. Completed report in March, 2001; report accepted, April 2001.
Appointed member of the American Library Association Nominating Committee, 1999-2000.
Served as member of the American Library Association Education Committee, 1999-2001.
Served on the editorial boards of Judaica Librarianship and Resource Sharing & Information Networks. [ongoing]
Served as an expert referee for The Library Quarterly and the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. [ongoing]

Service to GSLIS

Served as a member of the GSLIS Faculty Committee on Rank, Tenure and Appointments.

Served as ALISE Liaison for Simmons College GSLIS.

Served as Director-designate of GSLIS Program in Western Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College. Led 6 focus group interviews at Forbes Library, Northampton, MA, Springfield City Library, Springfield, MA, and Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT. Prepared plan for the GSLIS Program for the faculty.

Academic Background

B.A., Northwestern University
M.L.S., Queens College (City University of New York)
D.L.S., Columbia University

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