My specialty and passion is designing relevant and usable networking and collaboration tools around content such as books, articles, and related metadata (citations, bibliographic records, etc.).

I hold a MS in Library Science from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and work as a Product Manager at Elsevier.

During my career, I have held roles in such varied institutions as a public library, academic libraries, a social OPAC vendor, a print-on-demand do-it-yourself publisher, and now a STM publisher.

Please feel free to contact me about speaking engagements related to my areas of expertise.

Specialties: networking and collaboration tools, social software, folksonomy, folksonomies, tagging, faceted tagging, user studies, usability, interaction design, user experience design, marketing, library services (reference and instruction), Library 2.0, Academic Library 2.0, scholarly publishing, STM publishing, print-on-demand, OPACs