Curriculum Vitæ Summary: An energetic, entrepreneurial, innovative and service-oriented library and information sciences professional with proven teaching, leadership, team building, communication and interpersonal skills. Experience in teaching biology, chemistry and library and information science courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels using WebCT, TopClass and Blackboard WWW-based courseware applications. Experience in library management, database design and management, , thesaurus development and vocabulary control. Expert in online information retrieval techniques and sources in science, patens and business using major information vendor systems. Strong analytical and organizational skills principally employed in the assessment and application of new and emerging library and information technologies. Expert in the use of high-end PC- and MAC-based software for OCR, animation and presentation graphics, computer-assisted instruction, word processing, desktop publishing, spread sheeting and DHTML development. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience in technical writing and editing. A generalist with an advanced knowledge base in biomedicine, toxicology, biotechnology, plant science, chemistry and engineering.

Education: 1995 - MLIS, Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Education,  University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with election to Beta Phi Mu. 1978 - Ph.D., Coastal and Marine Sciences, College of Marine Studies,  University of Delaware, Newark, DE. 1975 - M.S., Biological Sciences, School of Life and Health Sciences, University  of Delaware, Newark, DE. 1968 - B.A., Biological Sciences, Rutgers College, Rutgers University, New  Brunswick, NJ.

Experience: Presently - Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Winston-Salem, NC. Media Coordinator. Simon G. Atkins Academic and Technology High School Reponsible for building and administering and Media Center at this new magnet school. Media Center Home Page 2002, 2004, 2006 – Clarion University of Pennsylvannia, Clarion, PA. Adjunct Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies. Responsible for developing and teaching LS569, Management of Technical and Access Services, and preparting the course for online delivery via the Internet through Clarion’s Blackboard courseware server. 1994 - pres. - IconBAZAAR LLC, Clemmons, NC. Webmaster/CEO. http://www.iconbazaar.com/ General website design, implementation and management for IconBAZAAR. Listed among the top 1,000 websites worldwide for free web-based graphics. 1997 – 2002 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC: Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Education. Teaching Concentrations: Library automation & technology. Internet sites, sources and modes of access. Microcomputer technology and software. Online literature searching skills. Technology in library management. Develop, plan and teach via TopClass and/or Blackboard courseware: LIS584a - Multimedia Applications. LIS584b - Spreadsheets for Librarians. LIS605a - Website Design & Management. LIS605b - Telecommunications & the Internet. LIS605c - Desktop Publishing. LIS605d - Online Bibliographic Information Retrieval. LIS645 - Computer-Related Technologies in Library Management. LIS646 - Abstracting & Indexing. 1996 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. 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 via the WWW: 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. 1996 - 1998 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. Visiting Instructor, Department of Library and Information Studies, School of Education. Develop WWW-based computer aided instruction tutorials for use in adult continuing education: Gazetteer and Dictonary for DOS 6.22 <http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/DOS/> Understanding Uniform Resource Locators <http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/URL/> 1994 - 1995 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. Research Associate, Walter Clinton Jackson Library. Responsible for the management of the Electronic CITI microcomputer laboratory of Jackson Library at UNCG. Partially responsible for the development of Jackson Library's WWW Archives HTML pages. Modified URLs (now modified) <http://www.uncg.edu/lib/arch/jarrell/time.html> 1994 & 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 - Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, NC. System and Extension Librarian, Mertys W. Bell Library, Learning Resources Center. 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. 1982 - 1992 - R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC. Master Literature Scientist, R&D Scientific Information Services Library, Bowman Gray Technical Center. 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 in-house 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. Responsible for on-call and SDI online information retrieval in the sciences, patents and business via several online information vendor systems. 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. Instruct students in the use of STN and DIALOG information systems for retrieval of information in chemistry. 1981 - 1982 - FMC Corporation, Princeton, NJ. Senior Information Biologist, Technical Information Services, Chemical Research and Development Center. 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 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) - Rutgers - The State University, Camden, NJ. Adjunct Professor of Biology, Biology Department, Camden College of Arts and Sciences. Responsible for planning and teaching the course Plant Ecology, B130:331, at the undergraduate level. 1978 - 1980 - Franklin Research Center, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA. Principal Literature Scientist, Toxicology Information Department, Science Information Services Organization. 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 using several major online information vendor systems. 1978 (Spring) - University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Lecturer, School of Life and Health Sciences. 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 - University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Teaching Assistant, School of Life and Health Sciences. 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 - Biological Abstracts, Philadelphia, PA. Senior Research Associate, BioSciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, 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.

Research Interests: Classification schemes and cladistics. Database management and user interface design. Vocabulary control and thesaurus management. WWW search engines and finding aids.

Special Skills: Languages MODERN German - read /write Russian - read French - working knowledge   CLASSICAL Latin - read, write Greek - working knowledge   COMPUTER BASIC - expert level HTML - expert level XML – working knowledge   Information Retrieval – Full knowledge of the following online systems: DIALOG DJNS EbscoNet LexisNexis Questel/ORBIT STN International WilsonWeb Westlaw   with expertise in scientific, technical, patent and business files. Computing – Knowledge of VAX/VMS, HP3000 MPE and Unix operating systems and command structures. Capable of writing advanced level programs in BASIC and WWW pages in HTML. Thoroughly familiar with the operation of advanced microcomputers and with software in the following areas - Windows/DOS: BASIC Programming Database Management Desktop Publishing Graphics Applications Multimedia Presentation Spreadsheets Telecommunications Word Processing Internet: HTML and HTML Editors. Email – listserv, netiquette. FTP – protocols, commands, software, sites and servers. Newsgroups – networks, finding aids, netiquette. Telnet – protocols and commands, sites and servers. WWW - sites and servers, finding aids, search engines.   Distance Education Courseware: Blackboard - expert TopClass - expert WebCT – working knowledge

Professional Affiliations: American Library Association (ALA) - current American Society for Information Science (ASIS) - current Beta Phi Mu - The Librarians' Honorary Society - current Industrial Technical Information Managers Group (ITIMG) - until 1990 Sigma Xi - The Research Society - until 1987 Special Libraries Association (SLA) - current

Public Service: 1987 - 1995 Abstracter/Indexer of all business information published in the Winston-Salem Journal and Triad Business for the Forsyth County Public Library, Winston-Salem, NC. 1991 - 1992. Database Designer for the Center for a Drugfree Workplace under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of Winston-Salem. 1976 - 1982 Field Guide for the Delaware Audubon Society during botanical field trips into the New Jersey Pine Barrens. 1975 - 1977 Field Guide for the Delaware Society of Allergists during botanical field trips. 1970 - 1972 Secretary/Commissioner, Burlington County Mosquito Extermination Commission, Mount Holly, NJ. 1969 - 1971 Draft Counselor, American Friends Service Committee, Cinnaminson Friends Meeting, Cinnaminson, NJ.

Publications: Ralph, Randy D.  1999.  HTML Reference Guide.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/HTMLRef/. Ralph, Randy D. and Beatrice Kovacs.  1999.  Can Traditional Collection Management Handle the New Technologies? Presented at Computers in Libraries 1999 (CIL'99) Conference, Crystal City, VA, March 7 - 11, 1999.  Available: http://www.uncg.edu/~rdralph/cil99/. Dek, A. W. E.  1999 (1956).  Plokhooy en van Dam:  Twee Flakkeese Geslachten (Plokhooy and van Dam:  Two Clans of the Flakkee).  Excerpted and translated from the Dutch by Randy D. Ralph with annotations and additions by Randy D. Ralph and Amy I. Plokhooy Hein.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available in English and Dutch:  http://www.netstrider.com/randy/family/plokhooy.html. Ralph, Randy D.  1999.  Ambergris:  A Pathfinder and Annotated Bibliography.  3rd Ed.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/documents/ambergris/. Ralph, Randy D.  1999.  Color Tables.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  IconBAZAAR LLC.  Available:  http://members.iconbazaar.com/home/color_tables/index.html. Ralph, Randy D.  1999.  Introduction to HTML:  A Self-Paced Course on Web Authoring.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/HTML/. Ralph, Randy D and Christopher E.  Ralph.  1999.  NetStrider Music Files..  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/music/. Ralph, Randy D.  1998.  Citation Style Examples after Turabian.  [Online.]  Greensboro, NC:  University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  Available:  http://www.uncg.edu/~rdralph/LIS605d/turabian.html. Ralph, Randy D.  1997. Creating transparent GIF images using LViewPro.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/graphics/lview/. Ralph, Randy D.  1997.  Search Engines, Indexes, Directories and Libraries.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/search/. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  An Introduction to the Internet.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/internet/. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  A Search Logic Primer.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/search/logic.html. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  Gazetteer and Dictionary for DOS 6.22.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/DOS/. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  Managing Bookmarks in Netscape 1.2.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/netscape/1.2/bookmarks/. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  Netscape 1.2 Top to Bottom.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/netscape/1.2/. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  Uniform Resource Locators.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/tutorials/URL/. Ralph, Randy D.  1996.  WWW Library Resources.  [Online.]  Arcadia, NC:  NetStrider.  Available:  http://www.netstrider.com/library/. Ralph, Randy D.  1978.  "Dinitrogen fixation by Azotobacter in the rhizosphere of Ammophila breviligulata." University of Delaware, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dissertation Abstracts International 39B(3):1108. Ralph, Randy D.  1976.  "Myxophyceae of the marshes of southern Delaware," Chesapeake Science 18(2):208-221. Ralph, Randy D.  1975.  Blue-green algae of the shores and marshes of southern Delaware, College of Marine Studies Publ. No. DEL-SG-20, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 139 pp., illus.

Papers Presented: Ralph, Randy D.  [In Press].  "The Performance of Nine WWW Search Engines on 500 Single-Term Queries in 10 Broad Subject Areas."  [Online].  NOM/IOLS Conference, May, 2002, Galveston, TX.  Available: http://lis.uncg.edu/student_work/search_engines/. Ralph, Randy D.  2001.  "Benchmarking the advanced interfaces of eight major WWW search engines."  [Online].  NOM/IOLS Conference, May, 2001, New York City.  Available:  http://lis.uncg.edu/student_work/benchmarking/. Ralph, Randy D.  2001.  "Benchmarking WWW search engines."  American Society of Indexers Conference, June, 2001, Boston.  Available:  Ralph, Randy D.  1999.  "Managing digital and physical collections. It ain’t what it used to be! Can traditional collection management handle the new technologies?"  [Online]. 14th Annual Computers in Libraries ’99, March 7, 1999.  Available:  http://www.uncg.edu/~rdralph/cil99/. Ralph, Randy D.  1988.  "Full-text databases in chemistry and their use in retrieval of information on methodology." RJR Nabisco Science Forum Meeting, November 15-17, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Ralph, Randy D.  1987.  "From downloads to databases." Joint ASIS/FEDLINK Fall Meeting, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, October. Ralph, Randy D.  1986.  "The development of in-house bibliographic databases at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company."  ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, Database Management: Building, Changing and Using Databases, May 11-14, Portland, Oregon. Ralph, Randy D.  1985.  "Downloading and data conversion - doing it yourself." Online '85 Conference Proceedings. Online Inc., Weston, CT, pp. 247-253. Ralph, Randy D.  1985.  "Automating data capture from CAS ONLINE." Proceedings of the Sixth National Online Meeting, New York, April 30 - May 2, 1985. Learned Information, Marlton, NJ, pp. 377-391. Ralph, Randy D.  1982.  "Online information retrieval in the biological sciences." Mimeographed proceedings of a seminar presented at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, October. Ralph, Randy D.  1981.  "Semantic reconstruction of parsed chemical nomenclature for information retrieval."  7th Annual Meeting of the Toxicology Roundtable, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, September. Ralph, Randy D.  1978.  "Asymbiotic dinitrogen (N2) fixation in the rhizosphere of American beachgrass, Ammophila breviligulata Fern." Botanical Society of America Misc. Publ. Ser. No. 156, Abstr. No. B108, pg. 42. Ralph, Randy D.  1975.  "The Myxophyceae of the marshes of southern Delaware." Journal of Phycology 12(June Suppl.), abstract of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Phycological Society of America.

Honors and Awards: 1996 - Election to Beta Phi Mu by the members of the North Carolina Chapter. 1992 - Letter of Commendation for outstanding public service to the Forsyth County Public Library from Ms. Barbara L. Anderson, Reference Department Head. 1992 - Golden Eagle Team Award received from Mr. James Johnston, President of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, for building and leading a "Total Quality First" team that designed, developed and implemented the "FirstBASE" interface to all internal databases operating under BASISPlus and MACCS II database management software. 1987 - Award for Technical Achievement granted by the Peer Review Committee of the Bowman Gray Technical Center, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC, with recommendation for elevation to the rank of Master Literature Scientist. 1979 - First Place - International Online Search Tournament, sponsored by Biological Abstracts at the Online F79 Conference in Atlanta, GA. 1978 - Election to Sigma Xi by the Faculty of the University of Delaware. 1978 - Certificate of Commendation for Excellence in teaching, research, and public service presented by the Dean of the College of Marine Studies of the University of Delaware. 1972 - Letter of Commendation for outstanding public service presented by the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County, NJ. 1972 - Research Fellowship awarded by the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware, January. 1968 - NSF Traineeship awarded by the Chairman of the Biology Department of the University of Delaware. 1964 - First Place in Biology - New Jersey State Science Day Scholastic Competition held at Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ.

Avocations: Graphics Botanical illustration, calligraphy, cartography, computer graphics. See IconBAZAAR <http://www.iconbazaar.com/> Music Voice: second bass, St. Leo the Great Choir, Winston-Salem, NC. Recorder: soprano, alto, tenor, soft consort Elizabethan. See NetStrider Music Files <http://www.netstrider.com/music/> Photography 2500+ color slides of plants of the Eastern United States arranged taxonomically. 400+ color slides showing the ecology of the coasts, the Appalachian Mountains, and the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Herbarium 800+ mounted specimens from the eastern United States with particular emphasis on the flora of salt marshes, sand dunes, and the New Jersey Pine Barrens, arranged taxonomically. Classification Scheme The Taxicon database hierarchically encodes over 11,200 taxa to the family level and contains over 80,000 encoded organisms complete with scientific names, common names and synonymy.

References: Ms. Barbara L. Anderson Community Development/Planning Librarian Forsyth County Public Library 660 W. Fifth Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Telephone:    (336)727-3008 voice    (336)727-2549 FAX Email: andersbl@co.forsyth.nc.us Mr. Tim Bucknall Electronic Resources Librarian Walter Clinton Jackson Library 182A P.O. Box 26170 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 Telephone:    (336)334-4238 voice    (336)334-5399 FAX Email: bucknall@uncg.edu Prof. James V. Carmichael, Jr. P.O. Box 26170 Department of Library and Information Studies The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro NC 27402-6170 Telephone:    (336)334-3478 voice    (336)334-5060 FAX Email: Jim_Carmichael@uncg.edu Prof. Beatrice Kovacs P.O. Box 26170 Department of Library and Information Studies The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro NC 27402-6170 Telephone:    (336)334-3479 voice    (336)334-5060 FAX Email: Bea_Kovacs@uncg.edu Mr. John W. Felts Electronic Resources Librarian Walter Clinton Jackson Library 208G P.O. Box 26170 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 Telephone:    (336)256-1232 voice    (336)334-5399 FAX Email: jwfelts@uncg.edu Mr. Benjamin R. Morgan Reference Librarian Forsyth County Public Library 660 W. Fifth Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Telephone:    (336)727-2264 voice    (336)727-2549 FAX Email: morganbr@forsythlibrary.org

In place April 8, 2002.  Last updated October 3, 2003.  Copyright © 2002, 2003 Randy D. Ralph.