Randy D. Ralph, MLIS, Ph.D.

1994 - pres.    University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro, NC:

1. Presently    Visiting Instructor, Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Education.

   Plan and teach:

   • Introduction to Electronic Resources LIS100 - fall semester 1996.
   • Information Retrieval LIS506a - fall semester 1996.
   • Educational Applications of BASIC LIS582 - fall semester 1996.
   • Abstracting and Indexing LIS646 - spring semester 1996.
     Comparison of the Top Eight WWW Search Engines
   • Spreadsheets for Librarians LIS688a - spring semester 1996.

2. 1996  Continuing Education Instructor, Adult and Continuing Education.
   • Participate in the planning and development of the Adult and Continuing Education program and curriculum at UNCG.
   • Plan and teach:
     • Introduction to Windows for older adults.
     • Introduction to the Microcomputer for teachers, young adults and older adults.
     • MicroSoft Office 4.3 primarily for use in business.
     • Web Work/HTML primarily for use in business.
   • Develop WWW-based computer aided instruction tutorials for use in adult continuing education:
     Creating Transparent GIF Images using LViewPro
     Gazetteer and Dictonary for DOS 6.22
     Introduction to the Internet
     Managing Bookmarks in Netscape 1.2
     Netscape 1.2 Top to Bottom
     Understanding Uniform Resource Locators

3. 1994 - 1995    Research Associate, Walter Clinton Jackson Library.
   • Responsible for the management of the Electronic CITI microcomputer laboratory of Jackson Library at UNCG.
   • Responsible for generation of WWW HTML pages for the Electronic CITI in Jackson Library. Base URL (now modified) http://www.uncg.edu:80/~cecarr/citi/
   • Partially responsible for the development of Jackson Library's WWW Archives HTML pages. Modified URLs (now modified) http://www.uncg.edu/lib/arch/jarrell/

4. 1994 and 1995    Laboratory Assistant, Instructional Resources and Computing
   • Responsible for point-of-use training in the Electronic CITI microcomputer laboratory of Jackson Library at UNCG.
   • Responsible for general maintenance of microcomputer equipment and Windows, Novell and DOS-based software.

1995 - 1996    System and Extension Librarian, Mertys W. Bell Library, Learning Resources Center, Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, NC.

• Responsible for point-of-use and in-class training for library staff on Windows, network and Internet microcomputer applications and Internet services.
• Responsible for point-of-use and in-class training and bibliographic instruction for faculty, staff and students on Windows, network and Internet microcomputer applications, Internet services and library systems and services.
• Systems extension librarian for 1 remote GTCC library branch and 4 remote reading rooms at GTCC and Davie County Community College.
• Project Librarian for a consortium of 4 NC community colleges using the Ameritech Horizon automation system.
• Development of WWW pages for the Mertys W. Bell Library and Learning Resources at GTCC and for the WWW pages of the Learning Resources Center Library at Davidson County Community College. Base URLs: http://198.86.104.1/lrc/links/ and http://198.86.104.1/dccc/

1982 - 1992    Master Literature Scientist, R&D Scientific Information Services Library, Bowman Gray Technical Center, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC.

• Responsible for the direction of the research library. Staff - 4 professional, 7 support. Annual Budget - $1.5 million. Total collection - 30 thousand volumes, 1.5 million documents in 5 proprietary micromedia archives, 250K citations in 11 inhouse databases supported by BASISPlus software on a VAX 9000 mainframe.
• Responsible for the institution and development of automated library and information retrieval, storage, dissemination and management techniques using BASISPlus database management software. F. W. Faxon LINX/SC20 system for serials control. OCLC system for copy cataloguing. Total retrospective conversion to LC MARC via SOLINET completed.
• Developed data conversion programs in BASIC for the automated transfer of information from 12 external databases into internal database files.

1986 - 1993    Adjunct Instructor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

• Plan and teach Chemical Literature CHM 383 at the graduate level.

1981 - 1982    Senior Information Biologist, Technical Information Services, Chemical Research and Development Center, FMC Corporation, Princeton, NJ.

• Partially responsible for the development of in-house library service marketing aids, in-house library service educational materials and demonstrations in online literature search services.
• Partially responsible for manual and online, in-house literature searches on topics in toxicology, biomedicine, biotechnology and chemistry.
• Partially responsible for technical writing of in-house literature search and literature survey reports and chemical materials safety data sheets.

1982 (Spring)    Adjunct Professor of Biology, Biology Department, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.

• Responsible for planning and teaching the course Plant Ecology, B130:331 at the undergraduate level.

1978 - 1980    Principal Literature Scientist, Toxicology Information Department, Science Information Services Organization, Franklin Research Center, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA.

• Partially responsible for the design of the Chemical Regulations and Guidelines System (CRGS) developed for the Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group (IRLG) under the auspices of the Environmental Protection Agency.
• Responsible for coordinating indexing of items screened from the Federal Register during the Coal Processing Project for the Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee.
• Responsible for coordinating all manual and online literature search activities conducted in connection with the production of the Pesticides Literature Reference System (PLRS) for the Environmental Protection Agency.

1978 (Spring)    Lecturer, School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

• Responsible for planning and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, B525, Plant Science Workshop, and B215, Plant Structure and Function.
• Developed a revised checklist of the flora of the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

1971 - 1977    Teaching Assistant, School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

• Taught laboratory and field courses on the graduate and undergraduate levels in botany, ecology, physiology and anatomy and wrote several laboratory manuals for the instruction of students in the anatomy and physiology of flowering plants.
• Prepared checklists of the flora of the New Jersey Pine Barrens and the coastal plain of Delaware for presentation to members of the Northeast Section of the Botanical Society of America during guided excursions in these areas.

1969 - 1971    Senior Research Associate, BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, Philadelphia, PA.

• Subscriber Search Service - Walter Reed Army Hospital: Formulated and executed manual and computer search strategies and compiled bibliographies on biomedical and chemical subjects.
• Toxicology Information Project - National Library of Medicine: Partially responsible for vocabulary control and thesaurus development and construction. Designed Taxicon, an hierarchically retrievable computer code for taxonomic characterization and indexing.

1968 - 1969    NSF Trainee, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE.

• Participated in the detailed mapping of the flora and topography of Canary Creek Marsh, Lewes, DE.