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Dr. Ana D. Cleveland

Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Information Science

(940) 565-2445

Email: ana.cleveland@unt.edu

Education

  • Certificate, Medical Library Association, 2000
    Major: Medical Librarian
  • Certificate, Medical Library Association, 1995
    Major: Medical Librarian
  • Certificate, Medical Library Association, 1991
    Major: Medical Librarian
  • Certificate, Medical Library Association, 1987
    Major: Medical Librarian
  • Certificate, Medical Library Association, 1982
    Major: Medical Librarian
  • Certificate, Medical Library Association, 1977
    Major: Certification, Medical Librarian
  • PhD, Case Western Reserve University, 1976
    Major: Library Science
    Dissertation: The Effect of Coding in Information Retrieval (A Study of Two Searching Strategies)
  • MS, Case Western Reserve University, 1973
    Major: Library Science
    Specialization: Information Science/Health Sciences Librarianship
    Dissertation: A Prime Number Coding System for Machine Storage and Retrieval
  • BA, The University of Texas, 1967
    Major: Mathematics/Spanish

Professional Positions

  • Regents Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.. (2008 - Present).
  • Adjunct Faculty, UNT Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, Texas. UNT Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, Texas. (2001 - Present).
  • Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.. (1991 - Present).
  • Professor, University of North Texas Health Sciences, Ft. Worth, Texas. University of North Texas Health Sciences, Ft. Worth, Texas. (1999 - 2005).
  • Associate Professor, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. (1988 - 1991).
  • Associate Professor, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. (1980 - 1988).
  • Director, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. (1979 - 1980).
  • Assistant Professor, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. (1977 - 1980).
  • Graduate Student Advisor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. (1973 - 1977).
  • Reference Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. (1973 - 1977).
  • Intern, University Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. University Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. (1973 - 1975).
  • Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. (1971 - 1973).
  • Instructor, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. (1968 - 1970).
  • Teacher (Mathematics), Snook Independent School District. Snook, Texas. Snook Independent School District. Snook, Texas. (1968 - 1970).
  • Library Assistant, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. (1962 - 1966).

    • Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Director, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (1992 - Present).
  • Director, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2004 - 2013).

Licensures and Certifications

  • Distinguished Member, Academy of Health Information Professionals, Medical Library Association. (2000 - Present).

Professional Memberships

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Merit (Peer) Review Panel. (2009 - 2009).
  • Texas Library Association Strategic Planning Panel. (2009 - 2009).
  • Journal of the Medical Library Association Editorial Board. (2006 - 2007).
  • Texas Healthcare Diversity Council. (2006 - 2006).
  • Planning Committee, Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Dallas, Texas. (2005 - 2006).
  • NN/LM South Central Region Site Visit Panel for the Contract of the Regional Medical Library Program, Houston, Texas. (2005 - 2005).
  • Jamaican Project of Sustainable Communities/Information Literacy. (1997 - 2001).
  • Research Mentor. (1998 - 1998).
  • Council of Specialized Libraries. (1996 - 1998).
  • Biomedical Library Review Committee. (1994 - 1998).
  • Board of Advisors/ Executive Committee. (1994 - 1998).
  • Library Resources Subcommittee. (1994 - 1998).
  • Board of Advisors. (1993 - 1998).
  • Council of Specialized Libraries. (1992 - 1998).
  • Associate Director Search Committee. (1997 - 1997).
  • Section Council, Library Education Committee. (1994 - 1997).
  • Board of Advisors. (1994 - 1995).
  • Research Committee. (1994 - 1995).
  • Library Education Committee. (1993 - 1995).
  • Research Section Membership Committee. (1993 - 1995).
  • CE Committee. (1993 - 1994).
  • Program Committee. (1993 - 1994).
  • Research Mentor. (1992 - 1993).
  • Task Force on Research. (1992 - 1993).
  • Rittenhouse Award Committee. (1991 - 1993).
  • American Medical Informatics Association. (1992 - 1992).
  • Credentialing Appeal Procedure. (1992 - 1992).
  • Continuing Education Committee. (1989 - 1991).
  • Program Committee. (1989 - 1991).
  • American Library Association. (1989 - 1990).
  • American Library Association. (1989 - 1989).
  • American Library Association. (1982 - 1985).
  • American Library Association. (1984 - 1984).
  • American Library Association. (1984 - 1984).
  • Association for Library and Information Science Education. (1984 - 1984).
  • American Library Association. (1983 - 1984).
  • American Library Association. (1983 - 1984).
  • Library Research Section. (1983 - 1984).
  • International Relations Round Table. (1982 - 1984).
  • Library Education Assembly, IRRT. (1982 - 1984).
  • SALALM (Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Materials). (1980 - 1984).
  • International Relations Round Table. (1982 - 1982).
  • Committee to Examine the Certification and Recertification Process. (1979 - 1980).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • BIOL 4005 - Contemporary Topics in Biology, 18 courses.
  • HINF 5365 - Information Systems in Healthcare, 2 courses.
  • HINF 5637 - Introduction to Health Informatics, 1 course.
  • HINF 5955 - Health Informatics Capstone Project, 2 courses.
  • HLTH 4900 - Special Problems, 8 courses.
  • INFO 4365 - Health Sciences Information Management, 2 courses.
  • INFO 4620 - Information Resources in the Humanities, 8 courses.
  • INFO 4900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • INFO 5000 - Information and Knowledge Professions, 9 courses.
  • INFO 5090 - Practicum and Internship in the Field Study, 35 courses.
  • INFO 5205 - Information Indexing, Abstracting and Retrieval, 2 courses.
  • INFO 5365 - Health Sciences Information Management, 14 courses.
  • INFO 5600 - Information Access and Knowledge Inquiry, 7 courses.
  • INFO 5620 - Information and Access Services in the Humanities, 15 courses.
  • INFO 5634 - Disaster/Emergency Management for Information Professionals, 17 courses.
  • INFO 5636 - Community Based Health Information, 8 courses.
  • INFO 5637 - Medical Informatics, 11 courses.
  • INFO 5670 - Seminar in Information Resources and Services in Special Fields, 14 courses.
  • INFO 5900 - Special Problems, 27 courses.
  • INFO 6660 - Readings in Information Science, 2 courses.
  • INFO 6900 - Special Problems, 4 courses.
  • INFO 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 58 courses.
  • SLIS 4000 - Introduction to Information Professions, 3 courses.
  • SLIS 4205 - Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting, 8 courses.
  • SLIS 4600 - Basic Information Access and Retrieval, 22 courses.
  • SLIS 4620 - Information Resources in the Humanities, 14 courses.
  • SLIS 4900 - Special Problems, 3 courses.
  • SLIS 5000 - Information and Knowledge Professions, 8 courses.
  • SLIS 5090 - Practicum and Field Study, 47 courses.
  • SLIS 5205 - Information Indexing, Abstracting and Retrieval, 28 courses.
  • SLIS 5290 - Special Collections and Archives, 5 courses.
  • SLIS 5330 - Academic Libraries, 3 courses.
  • SLIS 5365 - Health Sciences Information Management, 27 courses.
  • SLIS 5600 - Information Access and Knowledge Inquiry, 31 courses.
  • SLIS 5610 - Advanced Information and Access Services, 5 courses.
  • SLIS 5615 - Electronic Databases and Information Services, 6 courses.
  • SLIS 5620 - Information and Access Services in the Humanities, 42 courses.
  • SLIS 5637 - Medical Informatics, 12 courses.
  • SLIS 5670 - Seminar in Information Resources and Services in Special Fields, 28 courses.
  • SLIS 5714 - Website Content Development and Maintainence, 5 courses.
  • SLIS 5900 - Special Problems, 36 courses.
  • SLIS 5910 - Special Problems, 4 courses.
  • SLIS 5960 - Library and Information Sciences Institute or Seminar, 28 courses.
  • SLIS 5970 - Library and Information Sciences Institute or Seminar, 10 courses.
  • SLIS 6660 - Readings in Information Science, 5 courses.
  • SLIS 6900 - Special Problems, 10 courses.
  • SLIS 6910 - Special Problems, 1 course.

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, Information Science. (2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, Information Science. (2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (2019).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Linguistics. (2021 - 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "A Comparison of Plaintiff and Defense Expert Witness H-Index Scores in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Civil Litigation," Information Science. (2017 - August 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (2019 - 2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (2019 - 2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Information Science. (2016 - 2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (2014 - 2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Information Science. (2014 - 2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Improving the Treatment Compliance Behavior of the Chronically Ill in the Age of Predictive Medicine: The Role of Normative Beliefs.," Information Science. (2014 - 2018).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "nformation Seeking in the Developing World: A Case Study of Information Seeking Behavior of Students in Vlore, Albania," Information Science. (2013 - 2018).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "A Comparison of Major Factors that Affect Hospital Formulary Decision-Making by Three Groups of Prescribers," Information Science. (May 2018).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "An Integrative Model of eHealth Communication: A Study of 18-30 Year Old College Students," Information Science. (2014).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "A Study of the Competencies Needed of Entry-level Academic Health Sciences Librarians," Information Science. (May 2012).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "The Role of Tasks in the Internet Health Information Searching of Chinese Graduate Students," Information Science. (May 2012).
  • Other, "An Observational Investigation of On-Duty Critical Care Nurses' Information Behavior in a Nonteaching Community Hospital," (2004 - 2004).
  • Other, "Knowledge Synthesis in the Biomedical Literature: Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid and Breast Cancer," (2003 - 2003).
  • Other, "Detecting the Presence of Disease by Unifying Two Methods of Remote Sensing," (2002 - 2002).
  • Other, "MEDLINE Metric: A Method to Assess Medical Students’ MEDLINE Search Effectiveness," (2000 - 2000).
  • Other, "The Second Vatican Council and American Catholic Theological Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of Theological Studies: 1940-1995," (2000 - 2000).
  • Other, "The Validity of Health Claims on the World Wide Web: A Case Study for the Herbal Remedy Opuntia," (2000 - 2000).
  • Other, "Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology," (2000 - 2000).
  • Other, "Information Therapy: Definition and Empirical Application," (1999 - 1999).
  • Other, "Relationships Between Health Information Behaviors and Health Status in the Context of Urban Ecology," (1999 - 1999).
  • Other, "The Applicability of SERVPERF in Judging Service Quality for Biomedical Information Professionals," (1999 - 1999).
  • Other, "A Theory for the Measurement of Internet Information Retrieval," (1999 - 1999).
  • Other, "Increasing Telecommunications Channel Capacity: Impacts on Firm Profitability," (1997 - 1997).
  • Other, "Evaluation by Korean Students of Major Online Public Access Catalogs in Selected Academic Libraries," (1994 - 1994).
  • Other, "The Role of Information in the Selection Process of a Primary Care Physician," (1993 - 1993).
  • Other, "An Expert System Approach to the Evaluation of Hypertext Engineering: An Experiment with Knowledgepro and Maxthink’s," (1992 - 1992).
  • Other, "User Satisfaction in a Government Library: A Case Study of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia," (1991 - 1991).
  • Other, "A Descriptive Survey of Libraries Supporting Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs Accredited by the National League for Nursing and Nursing Doctoral Programs," (1991 - 1991).

Awards and Honors

  • Alpha Chi - Texas Theta Chapter,
  • Beta Phi Mu,
  • Ana D. Cleveland MLA Scholarship (named in my honor), Medical Library Association. (May 2023).
  • Distinguished Service Award, Texas Library Association. (April 2021).
  • Elizabeth K. Eaton Research Award, 1st Place (Contributed Paper), South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (October 2020).
  • Marcia C. Noyes Award, Medical Library Association. (May 2018).
  • Distinguished Service Award, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (October 2013).
  • Fellow of the Medical Library Association, Medical Library Association. (May 2013).
  • Ida and George Eliot Prize, Medical Library Association. (May 2010).
  • Janet Doe Lecturer, Medical Library Association. (2010).
  • Research Award, Contributed Paper. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (2009).
  • Hispanic Leader (Líderes Hispanos) Recognition, Al Día, a national newspaper. (2008).
  • Librarian of the Year, HealthLINE. (2007).
  • Librarian of the Year, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (2007).
  • Library Journal Teaching Award, Honorable Mention. (2007).
  • Research Award, Poster. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (2007).
  • Research Award, Contributed Paper. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (2006).
  • Research Award, Contributed Paper. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (2005).
  • G. Roland Vela Award, Hispanic Friends of the University of North Texas. (2000).
  • Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award, Medical Library Association. (2000).
  • The Ana D. and Donald B. Cleveland Endowment, Established by a former student and others. (2000).
  • Distributed Learning Pioneer, Center for Distributed Learning. University of North Texas. Denton, Texas. (1999).
  • Recognition for Contribution to Proyecto Zapotlan, General Consulate of Mexico. Dallas, Texas. (1999).
  • General's Club Award. Outstanding Leadership, American Medical Informatics Association. (1992).
  • Recognition for Contribution to the Field of Librarianship, Texas Association for School Librarians, Texas Library Association, Houston, Texas. (1992).
  • Academy of Health Information Professionals, Medical Library Association. (1991).
  • "Top Professor,", Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, University of North Texas. (1989).
  • Quien es Quien: A Who's Who of Spanish-Speaking Librarians, Quien es Quien: A Who's Who of Spanish-Speaking Librarians. (1986).
  • Who's Who in Spanish-American Librarians, Spanish-American Librarians. (1981).
  • Who's Who in Spanish-American Librarians, Spanish-American Librarians. (1978).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Viswavarapu, L.K., Chen, J., Cleveland, A.D., Philbrick, J.L. (2016). UNT Medical Information Retrieval at TREC 2016. Other. http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec25/trec2016.html
  • Cleveland, A.D., Prather, I.D., MacCall, S.L., Johnson, L.S., Morrow, J. (1999). The Clinical Digital Libraries Project.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Beals, R.J., MacCall, S. (1998). Quality of Internet Resources for Medical Decision-Making: The Clinical Digital Libraries Project. 98 (8) 460. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

    • Book

  • Cleveland, D.B., Cleveland, A.D. (2013). Introduction to indexing and abstracting. Santa Barbara, CA, Libraries Unlimited.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Schuman, N. (2009). Health Informatics for Medical Librarians. New York, NY,
  • Cleveland, A.D., Phillbrick, J. (2007). Virtual Reference Services for the Academic Health Sciences Librarian 2.0. In Medical Librarian 2.0. Binghamton, NY, The Haworth Information Press.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cleveland, D.B. (2001). Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting. (3) Littleton, CO, Libraries Unlimited.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cleveland, D.B. (1990). Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting. (2) Littleton, CO, Libraries Unlimited.
  • Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freide Egas Moniz. (1989). 1874-1955. The Book of Days 1989. Ann Arbor, MI,
  • Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freide Egas Moniz. (1986). The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners. 95. Phoenix, AZ, Oryx Press.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cajal, S.R., Schlessinger, B., Schlessinger, J. (1986). The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners. 81. Phoenix, AZ, Oryx Press.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cleveland, D.B. (1983). Libraries Unlimited. Littleton, CO, Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting.
  • Cleveland, A.D. (1982). Curriculum Model for the Training of Librarians Serving the Spanish Speaking (three chapters). National Endowment of the Humanities.

    • Book Chapter

  • Cleveland, A.D., Philbrick, J.L. (2007). Virtual reference services for the academic health sciences librarian 2.0. In S. Woods (Ed.) Medical librarian 2.0: Use of Web 2.0 technologies in reference services. 25-49. Haworth Press.

    • Journal Article

  • Sterling, E.B., Cleveland, A.D., Philbrick, J.L. (2022). Analyzing COVID-19 Resources on Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries’(AAHSL) Research Guides. Medical Reference Service Quarterly. 41 (4) 363-380.
  • Kahanek, A., Yu, Philbrick, J., Cleveland, A.D., Hong, L. (2021). Temporal Variations and Spatial Disparities in Public Sentiment Toward COVID-19 and Preventive Practices in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets. JMIR Infodemiology. https://infodemiology.jmir.org/2021/1/e31671
  • Hannigan, G.G., Cleveland, A.D., Eldredge, J.D. (2021). Erika Love (1925-2020). 109 (3) Journal of the Medical Library Association.
  • Prybutok, G.L., Cleveland, A.D. (2016). Impact of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region, express outreach awards 2011-2013. International Journal of Services and Standards. 11 (3) 221-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSS.2016.080051
  • Philbrick, J.L., Cleveland, A.D. (2015). Personal branding: Building your pathway to professional success. Medical Reference Service Quarterly. 34 (2) 181-189.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Pan, D., Chen, J., Yu, X., Philbrick, J., O'Neill, M. (2008). Analysis of the Health Information Needs and Health Related Internet Usage of a Chinese Population in the United States. Other. 52 (3) 112-116.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Pan, D., Chen, J., Yu, C., Philbrick, J., O'Neill II, M. (2008). Analysis of the Health Information Needs and Health Related Internet Usage of a Chinese Population in the United States.
  • J. Philbrick. (2007). "Virtual Reference Services for the Academic Health Sciences Librarian 2.0" Medical Reference S ervices Quarterly. Volume 26, Supplement 1, 2007, p. 25-49.
  • Cleveland, A.D. (2007). Intellectual Freedom Manual (7th ed). Other. 95 (1) 92-93.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Hannigan, G., Bedard, J., Philbrick, J., Turner, P. (2005). Recruiting the Next Generation of Biomedical Sciences Librarians: Meeting Increasingly Complex Information Needs by Building on a Biomedical Sciences Education Foundation.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Oosterwijk, H. (2003). Implementing Privacy and Security for PACS and Teleradiology, a Pragmatic Approach.
  • H. Oosterwijk, P. Saraswatula, B. Ponnam, B. Saab, B. Hu, and J. Philbrick. (2002). "Using Public Domain Software for Developing Countries.".
  • Cleveland, A.D., Oosterwijk, H., Ponnam, B., Anusuri, R., Yoon, J., Philbrick, J., Welsh, N., Zhang, P. (2002). Developing an Indexing Method for Digital Medical Images in a DICOM Database.
  • Cleveland, A.D., MacCall, S.L., Prather, I.D., McKnight, J.T., Gibson, I.E., Johnson, L., Morrow, J. (2000). The Clinical Digital Libraries Project: An Experiment of the Feasibility of Providing Large Scale Professional Digital Library Services to Clinical Users.
  • Steven MacCall and Ian Gibson. (1999). "Outline and Preliminary Evaluation of the Classical Digital Library Model.".
  • Cleveland, A.D., MacCall, S.L. (1999). A Relevance-based Quantitative Measure for Internet Information Retrieval.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Stettheimer, T.D. (1998). Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology. Other. 290-294. Philadelphia, Hanley & Belfus, Inc..
  • Cleveland, A.D. (1995). Interdisciplinary Connections in Medical Informatics. Medical Reference Service Quarterly. 14 (4) 59-64.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cleveland, D.B. (1990). Indexing with Microcomputers: Past, Present and Future. Other. 91-98. West Newton, MA, MicroUse Information.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cleveland, D. (1986). Microcomputers Programming in the Information Science Curriculum. Other. 290-295. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, North Holland-Elsevier.
  • Cleveland, A.D., Wise, O. (1984). Less Than Full Text Indexing Using a Non-Boolean Searching Model. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 35 (1) 19-28.
  • Cleveland, A.D. (1983). "The Latin American Students in the United States Accredited Library Schools.".
  • Cleveland, A.D., Cleveland, D.B. (1983). Depth of Indexing Using a Non-Boolean Searching Technique. International Forum on Information and Documentation. 8 (2) 10-13.
  • Cleveland, A.D. (1980). Buck's Prime Number-Coding Scheme. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 220.
  • Cleveland, A.D. (1979). A Test of Buck's Prime Number Coding Scheme. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 290-295.

Presentations Given

  • "Bridging the Gap: Helping Chinese Health Consumers Access Quality Health Information." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, May 2009. (With D. Pan, and J. Philbrick)., (2009 - 2009).
  • "Getting to Know You: Academic Health Sciences Library Directors." (Poster). Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, May 2009. (With J. Philbrick), (2009 - 2009).
  • "Positioning Medical Libraries in the World of Web 2.0 Technologies." International Congress on Medical Librarianship, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, September 2009. (With J. Philbrick and D.Pan), (2009 - 2009).
  • "Positioning Health Information Professionals to Manage Disaster Situations." International Congress on Medical Librarianship, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, September 2009. (With J. Philbrick and T. Pipes), (2009 - 2009).
  • "Training Future Health Information Professionals to Manage Disaster Situations." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, May 2009. (With J. Philbrick, T. Pipes, and M. Anderson), (2009 - 2009).
  • "What Did My Doctor Tell Me? Diagnosing and Treating Community Health Information Needs." Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Houston, TX, April 2009. (With J. Philbrick), (2009 - 2009).
  • "Collaborative Grant Projects: Promises and Pitfalls." Texas Library Association District 8 Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 2008. (With J. Philbrick, J. Newsum, and G. Dennis), (2008 - 2008).
  • "Health Information Outreach to the Chinese Community." UNT Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program inInformation Science Colloquium, Denton, Texas, November 2008. (With D. Pan, J. Philbrick, J. Chen, and M. O'Neill), (2008 - 2008).
  • "How I Learned English: Recalling Lessons in Language and Life." (Panelist) REFORMA National Conference III, El Paso, Texas, September 2008., (2008 - 2008).
  • "Infrastructure and Information Flow in Medical Informatics: An Albanian Case Study." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Dallas, Texas, October 2008. (With M. Tabor, A. Kabashi, and J. Philbrick), (2008 - 2008).
  • "Reaching out to the Rio Grande Valley: Recruiting Librarians of Tomorrow." REFORMA National Conference III, El Paso, Texas, September 2008. (With J. Philbrick and P. Turner), (2008 - 2008).
  • "Status of Health Sciences Librarianship Education in the South Central Region." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Dallas, Texas, October 2008. (With J. Philbrick), (2008 - 2008).
  • "Taking a Closer Look at Academic Health Sciences Library Directors." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Dallas, Texas, October 2008. (With J. Philbrick), (2008 - 2008).
  • "Web 2.0 Technologies in Medical Libraries." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Dallas, Texas, October 2008. (With D. Pan and J. Philbrick), (2008 - 2008).
  • "A Review of the Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as Applied to Twenty Common Health Problems." (Poster) South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With T. Casteel), (2007 - 2007).
  • "An Intern's Adventures in a College of Medicine LRC." (Poster) South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With D. Kruse, G. Hannigan, and B. White), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Blending Formats: An Innovative Model for Teaching Medical Informatics." Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007. (with J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Blogging in Academic Health Sciences Libraries." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Enhancing the Chinese Population's Ability to Find Quality Health Information on the Internet." Healthcare Diversity Summit, Dallas, Texas, May 2007. (With J. Philbrick, D. Pan, J. Chen, and X. Yu), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Is an MLS for Me?" (Panel) Texas Library Association District 8 Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 2007. (With M. Zannier and J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Medical Librarians…Aren't Just about Books." VIVA! Project, Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, Texas, October 2007., (2007 - 2007).
  • "Moving Forward…Your Career in Libraries." North Harris Montgomery County Community College Library System Staff Development Day, The Woodlands, Texas, September 2007., (2007 - 2007).
  • "Research Methods and Statistical Techniques in Current Medical Information Research." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With J. Philbrick and D. Pan), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Social Networking: A Primer for Librarians." Texas Library Association District 8 Meeting, Houston, Texas, October 2007. (With M. Robertson and J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "Teaching the Chinese Population How to Find Quality Health Information on the Internet." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With D. Pan and J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "The Geography of Virtual Reference Services in Academic Health Sciences Libraries." (Poster) Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007. (with J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "The IMLS-Funded Informatics Fellowship: A Progress Report." (Poster) South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With G. Hannigan, M. Bedard, and J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "The Integration of Informatics in the Curricula of Nursing Schools." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2007. (With J. Philbrick and M. Robertson), (2007 - 2007).
  • "The Next Generation of Academic Health Sciences Reference Librarians." (Poster) Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007. (with J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "What's in a Name? Reference Services in Academic Health Sciences Libraries." (Poster) Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007. (with J. Philbrick), (2007 - 2007).
  • "What's the Current Status of Nursing Informatics Education?" (Poster) Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007. (With J. Philbrick, X. Pan, and M. Robertson), (2007 - 2007).
  • "5-Minute Continuing Education: Tips and Tactics for Staying Current When You're Short on Time." Medical Library Association, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2006., (2006 - 2006).
  • "A Partnership of an Institution of Higher Education and Libraries in South Texas and New Mexico to Prepare New Library Professionals." Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Dallas, Texas, October 2006. (With J. Philbrick and P. Turner), (2006 - 2006).
  • "Attracting People of Color to the Library Profession." (Panelist) Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Dallas, Texas, October 2006. (With P. Turner), (2006 - 2006).
  • "Health Information for Your Community." (Panelist) Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Dallas, Texas, October 2006. (With D. Pan), (2006 - 2006).
  • "Internet Health Information Access by the Chinese Population in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Area." (Poster) Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Dallas, Texas, October 2006. (With J. Philbrick, D. Pan, X. Yu, M. O'Neill, and L. Smith), (2006 - 2006).
  • "Meeting the Health Information Needs of the Chinese Population in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex." Texas Library Association District 5 Meeting, Dallas, Texas, September 2006. (With J. Philbrick, D. Pan, X. Yu, M. O'Neill, and L. Smith), (2006 - 2006).
  • "Open for Business: An Examination of the Chat Reference Services Offered by Academic Health Sciences Libraries." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, College Station, Texas, October 2006. (With J. Philbrick), (2006 - 2006).
  • "Placing Limits on Assistance: Virtual Reference Services in Academic Libraries." (Poster) Medical Library Association, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2006. (With J. Philbrick), (2006 - 2006).
  • "The Power of Partnerships: Using Inter-institutional Expertise to Develop a Model for Teaching Biomedical Sciences Information Management on the Web." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, College Station, Texas, October 2006. (With G. Hannigan, J. Philbrick, M.Bedard, D. Pan, and M. O'Neill), (2006 - 2006).
  • Report to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine – South Central Region. Project Title: Health Information Outreach to the Chinese Population in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex: Teaching Chinese Health Consumers How to Find Quality Health Information on the Internet. Contract No: N01-LM-1-3515. 2006. (96 pages), (2006 - 2006).
  • "A Model for Teaching Virtual Reference in a Virtual Classroom." Virtual Reference Desk Conference, San Francisco, California, November 2005. (With J. Philbrick), (2005 - 2005).
  • "An Innovative Partnership to Recruit and Educate Biomedical Information Professionals." (Poster) American Medical Informatics Association, Washington, DC, October 2005. (With G. Hannigan, M. Bedard, J. Philbrick, X. Pan, and M. O'Neill), (2005 - 2005).
  • "Delivering Humanities Reference at Your Library." Texas Library Association District 8 Meeting, Katy, Texas, November 2005. (With J. Philbrick and A. Simons), (2005 - 2005).
  • "Developing a Model Course Curriculum to Attract Biomedical and Health Sciences Undergraduates to Careers as Medical Information Specialists." (Poster) South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2005. (With G. Hannigan and M. Bedard), (2005 - 2005).
  • "Medical Libraries and Library Schools: Exploring New Opportunities for Collaboration and Cooperation." (Panelist) HealthLINE Meeting, Denton, Texas, April 2005., (2005 - 2005).
  • "Our Future is NOW! - Recruiting and Educating New Health Sciences Librarians." (Panelist) South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2005., (2005 - 2005).
  • "Recruiting the Next Generation of Biomedical Sciences Librarians: Meeting Increasingly Complex Information Needs by Building on a Biomedical Sciences Education Foundation." 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries. Salvador-Bahia, Brazil. September 2005. (With G. Hannigan, M. Bedard, J. Philbrick, and P. Turner), (2005 - 2005).
  • "The Future of Electronic Medical Records." Medical Library Association, Primary Care Special Interest Group, San Antonio, Texas, May 2005., (2005 - 2005).
  • "What's in the Forms?: An Analysis of the Web Forms used by Academic Health Sciences Libraries for Virtual Reference." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2005. (With J. Philbrick), (2005 - 2005).
  • "New Directions, New Realities." (Panelist) Texas Library Association District 8 Meeting, Pearland, Texas, October 2004., (2004 - 2004).
  • "The Use of Web Resources by Residents in Family Medicine" Medical Library Association, Washington, DC, May 2004., (2004 - 2004).
  • "Assessing MEDLINE Searches Using a New Method: MEDLINE Metric." American Medical Informatics Association, San Antonio, Texas, November 2002. (With Gale Hannigan and Rachel Branson), (2002 - 2002).
  • "Developing an Indexing Method for Medical Digital Images in a DICOM Database." Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, Illinois, December, 2002. (With H. Oosterwijk, B. Ponnam, R. Anusuri, J. Yoon, J. Philbrick, N. Welsh, and P. Zhang), (2002 - 2002).
  • "MEDLINE Metric: A Method to Assess Medical Students' MEDLINE Search." Medical Library Association, Dallas, Texas, May 2002. (With Gale Hannigan and Rachel Branson), (2002 - 2002).
  • "PACS Using Public Domain Software for Developing Countries." Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, Illinois, December, 2002. (With H. Oosterwijk, P. Saraswatula, B. Ponnam, B. Saab, B. Hu, and J. Philbrick), (2002 - 2002).
  • "Supporting the Information Needs of Family Medicine Residents." Medical Library Association, Medical Informatics Section Sponsored Meeting, Dallas, Texas, May 2002., (2002 - 2002).
  • "The Health Information Professional and Health Care Administrators: Partners in HIPAA Compliance." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, San Antonio, Texas, October 2002.(With Beverlee Warren), (2002 - 2002).
  • "Developing Digital Libraries in Medical Environments." Recinto de Ciencias Médicas, Biblioteca de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April, 2001., (2001 - 2001).
  • "Distance Collaboration in Developing the Prevention Medicine Category of the Clinical Digital Libraries Project." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, May, 2001. (With Stacia Gibson and Steven MacCall), (2001 - 2001).
  • "Distance Education and the Internet: Impacts and Implications for Medical Education," XXXII UPR Medical Sciences Research and Education Symposium, Medical Sciences Campus, Medical Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April, 2001., (2001 - 2001).
  • "Distance Learning: Implications for Global Education." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN Texas Eight Working Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April, 2001., (2001 - 2001).
  • "Health Care and the Hispanic Population." Dept. of Kinesiology Student Group, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, October, 2001., (2001 - 2001).
  • "HIPAA for Imaging Roadmap." HIPAA for Radiology, Dallas, Texas, August, 2001. (With Myrna Hale, Nicholas Welsh, Peter Zhang, and Herman Oosterwijk), (2001 - 2001).
  • "Information Seeking Behavior of Retail Pharmacists." South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, 2001. (With Melissa DeMorris), (2001 - 2001).
  • "Serving Diverse Communities." REFORMA Rio Trinidad Panel Discussion. (Panelist) Irving Public Library, Irving, Texas, November, 2001., (2001 - 2001).
  • "Consistency Management: The Key to Successful Large Scale Professional Clinical Digital Library Service Provision." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2000. (With Steven L. MacCall and Ian E. Gibson), (2000 - 2000).
  • "Digital Library Management Software for Multiple Clinical Sites." 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, London, England, July, 2000. (With Steven L. MacCall, Ian E. Gibson, David McMillan and Russell Kingston), (2000 - 2000).
  • "Digitization: Designing the Future, Preserving the Past." (Panelist). 4th Annual Houston Conference on Health Informatics. Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas, June, 2000., (2000 - 2000).
  • "Evidence-based Librarianship: Tools We Can All Use: Part 2, Overview." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, May, 2000., (2000 - 2000).
  • "Finding Medical Information on the Web" University of North Texas System Center in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, August, 2000. (With Stacia Gibson), (2000 - 2000).
  • "Getting to Know the Internet." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas Seventh Working Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April, 2000. (With Stacia Gibson), (2000 - 2000).
  • "Information Technology in Education." Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida, November, 2000. (With Stacia Gibson), (2000 - 2000).
  • "Providing Library Services to Diverse Communities." REFORMA Rio Trinidad Panel Discussion. (Panelist) Denton, Texas, November, 2000., (2000 - 2000).
  • "The Clinical Digital Libraries Project: An Experiment of the Feasibility of Providing Large Scale Professional Digital Library Services to Clinical Users." 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, London, England, July, 2000. (With Steven L. MacCall, Irvine D. Prather, Jerry T. McKnight, Ian E. Gibson, Larry Johnson and Jay Morrow), (2000 - 2000).
  • "A Relevance-based Quantitative Measure for Internet Information Retrieval." American Society for Information Science 1999 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November, 1999. (With Steven L. MacCall), (1999 - 1999).
  • "Global Access to a Digital Information Collections." Global Health Council 26th Annual Conference, Arlington, Virginia, June, 1999. (With Steven MacCall), (1999 - 1999).
  • "Library Services for Hispanic Populations in Public Libraries." REFORMA Annual Meeting, Carrolton Public Library, Carrollton, Texas, November, 1999., (1999 - 1999).
  • "Outline and Evaluation of the Classical Digital Library Model." American Society for Information Science 1999 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November, 1999 (With Steven L. MacCall and Ian E. Gibson), (1999 - 1999).
  • "Project Jamaica: A Model for Sustainability." An Aging Planet, An Expanding Population, A Sustainable Future Second Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, May, 1999., (1999 - 1999).
  • "The Clinical Digital Libraries Project: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Providing Information Services to Off-Site users." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, May, 1999., (1999 - 1999).
  • "The Role of Information in Sustainability Communities." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas Sixth Working Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April, 1999., (1999 - 1999).
  • "Grant Writing for Health Information Professionals." SCC/MLA Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, November, 1998., (1998 - 1998).
  • "Libraries Serving Diverse Communities." Reforma Rio Trinidad and Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas, November, 1998., (1998 - 1998).
  • "Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology." Annual Meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association, Orlando, Florida, November, 1998., (1998 - 1998).
  • "Sustainable Communities and the Information Superhighway." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas Fifth Working Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April, 1998. (With Stan Ingman)., (1998 - 1998).
  • "The Realities of Using the Internet for Patient Care." Annual Meeting of Preceptors in Rural Medicine. Department of Family Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas, August, 1998., (1998 - 1998).
  • "The Use of Digital Medical Library Collections in Clinical Care." Texas Rural Medical Association, Austin, Texas, October, 1998., (1998 - 1998).
  • "Complexities of International Medical Informatics Initiatives." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas Fourth Working Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April, 1997., (1997 - 1997).
  • "Medical Information from Cyberspace." SLIS Alumni Society Academic Homecoming 1997, University of North Texas Denton, Texas, October, 1997., (1997 - 1997).
  • "Nursing Informatics and the Internet." Nursing Senior Students, Tarleton State University, workshop delivery at University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, November, 1997. (With J. Holmes and M. Hicks)., (1997 - 1997).
  • "Using the World Wide Web in the Family Practice Teaching Clinic: Presenting the Seminary Clinic Bookmark Collection." Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 1997. (With Steven MacCall, J.A. Whitham and H. McNulty), (1997 - 1997).
  • "Virtual Clinic: Internet in the Medical Office." Continuing Medical Education Course. American College of International Physicians Annual Convention, Palm Beach, Florida, July, 1997. (With Steven L. MacCall)., (1997 - 1997).
  • "Community Health Information Networks and the Internet." American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C., October 1996. (With S.T. Colridge, L.S. Johnson, S.L. MacCall), (1996 - 1996).
  • "Health Issues Concerning the Hispanic Population in the United States." REFORMA National Conference, Austin, Texas, August 1996., (1996 - 1996).
  • "Strategies for Implementing Internet Information Retrieval in International Settings." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas Third Working Conference, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico, November, 1996. (With Steven L. MacCall)., (1996 - 1996).
  • "Supporting Distance Education in Medical Informatics." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas Third Working Conference, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico, November, 1996., (1996 - 1996).
  • "Community Development: Infrastructure Issues--Health Informatics and the Environment." University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 1995., (1995 - 1995).
  • "Health Information Services in Public Libraries." Hispanic Library Education--The Second National Institute: Latino Populations and the Public Library, University of Texas at Austin, November 1995. (With Mary Jo Dwyer)., (1995 - 1995).
  • "Integrated Information Systems: A Reality in Medicine." Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico, March 1995., (1995 - 1995).
  • "Management of Integrated Information Systems." Behavioral Medicine Program. Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, March 1995., (1995 - 1995).
  • "Medical Informatics in the Age of Managed Care." Annual Meeting of the Psychology Association, ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico, October 1995., (1995 - 1995).
  • "Medical Informatics: The UNT Model." El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 1995., (1995 - 1995).
  • "Integrated Information Systems: Structuring People and Resources." First Colloquium on the Professional Education of Future Librarians in Mexico, Mexico D.F., September, 1994., (1994 - 1994).
  • "The Role of Information in the Selection Process of a Primary Care Physician." Healthy People 2000 Conference, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, September, 1994 (with Sonny E. Butler)., (1994 - 1994).
  • "The Role of Information in the Selection Process of a Primary Care Physician." International Health Evaluation Association, Tokyo, Japan, May, 1994 (With Sonny E. Butler)., (1994 - 1994).
  • "Transition from Education to Practice: Interaction." Medical Library Association, San Antonio, Texas, May, 1994., (1994 - 1994).
  • "Information Therapy During Thanatological Care: A Role for Information Technology." American Institute of Life-Threatening Illness and Loss, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, November, 1993 (With Steven MacCall)., (1993 - 1993).
  • "Medical Reference in the Electronic Age." Border Region Library Association, El Paso, Texas, November, 1993., (1993 - 1993).
  • "Platform for Change: The Road to Implementation." South Central Chapter/Medical Library Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1993., (1993 - 1993).
  • "The Status of Hispanic Library Education in the United States." University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, July,1993., (1993 - 1993).
  • "Woman's Equality Issues." University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, August 1993., (1993 - 1993).
  • "Educating the Health Sciences Information Professional for the 21st Century." HealthLINE Group, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 1992., (1992 - 1992).
  • "Medical Reference Do's and Don'ts for the General Reference Librarian." Library/ Information Science Student Association Lecture Series, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 1992., (1992 - 1992).
  • "Ethics in the Delivery of Information." Keynote Speaker. Arkansas Education Association Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 1991., (1991 - 1991).
  • "Hot Topics in Professional Issues," moderator. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 1991., (1991 - 1991).
  • "Indexing with Microcomputers: Past, Present and Future." 3rd International Conference on New Information Technology, Guadalajara, Mexico, November 1990. (With Donald B. Cleveland.), (1991 - 1991).
  • "Library and Information Science Education-The Present and the Future," Houston OnLine User's Group, Houston, Texas, September 1991., (1991 - 1991).
  • "Medical Informatics-Dead or Alive in Health Sciences Libraries?," Multicultural Lecture Series, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, October 1991., (1991 - 1991).
  • "Building Collections to Support Literary Programs," TLA District 7, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, October 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Computers, Ethics, and Librarians," South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Shreveport, Louisiana, October 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Education of Health Sciences Librarians: The Master's Degree." HealthLINE Group, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, April 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Hispanic Matriculation, Attrition and Retention in Institutions of Higher Education." Hispanic Awareness Week, Student Union, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, September 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Library Research at Southwestern Medical Center Library," Panel Member - Reactor, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, February 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Management of Information for Tomorrow: Being a More Literate Manager," Louisiana Library Association, Monroe, Louisiana, April 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Red Hot Topics in Health Sciences Librarianship." Moderator. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Shreveport, Louisiana, October 1990., (1990 - 1990).
  • "Ethical Issues in Public Services," Irving Public Library, Irving, Texas, December 1989., (1989 - 1989).
  • "Information Services: The Present and the Future," San Diego State University, Calexico, California, August 1989., (1989 - 1989).
  • "Life at the Reference Desk," Cedar Valley College, Lancaster, Texas, August 1989., (1989 - 1989).
  • "Que es Referencia? El Proceso y la Technologia Moderna," Mexicali, Mexico, August 1989., (1989 - 1989).
  • "The Ethics of Reference," TLA District 5, Collin County Community College, Spring Creek Campus, Plano, Texas, October 1989., (1989 - 1989).
  • "The Reality of the IAIMS Concept," Medical Library Association, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1989., (1989 - 1989).
  • "Two Career Families." Panel presentation at 2nd Annual Bradshaw Day, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, May 1988., (1988 - 1988).
  • "Legal and Medical Information Services in the Public Library." North Texas Library System, Mineral Wells, Texas, November 1986., (1986 - 1986).
  • "Legal and Medical Information Services in the Public Library." North Texas Library System, Watauga, Texas, December 1986., (1986 - 1986).
  • "Microcomputers in the Information Science Curriculum." Second International Conference on Microcomputers in Libraries, Information and Documentation. Baden-Baden, Federal Republic of Germany, March 1986., (1986 - 1986).
  • "Texas Woman's University - Present and Future Directions." Texas Woman's University Alumnae Association, El Paso, Texas, November 1986., (1986 - 1986).
  • "A Model Management Development Program for Women in Librarianship." (Introduction to topic, historical perspective, and session chair.) World Conference on Continuing Education for the Library and Information Science Profession. Chicago, Illinois, August 1985., (1985 - 1985).
  • "History of Research in Health Sciences Librarianship." Section Moderator, Medical Library Association. New York, New York, May 1985., (1985 - 1985).
  • "Information Services: More Than Finding the Answer." TLA District Meeting, Denton, Texas, October 1985., (1985 - 1985).
  • "Key Issues in Modern Information Services." Fort Worth Independent School District. Fort Worth, Texas, August 1985., (1985 - 1985).
  • "Reference Services." Second Binational Conference on Libraries of The Californias. Calexico, California, October 1985., (1985 - 1985).
  • "Servicios de Informacion: Investigacion y Bibliografias." Segunda Conferencia Binacional de Bibliotecas de las Californias. Mexicali, Mexico, October 1985., (1985 - 1985).
  • "Minorities in Library Science Schools." Reforma/American Library Association. Dallas, Texas, June 1984., (1984 - 1984).
  • "Research Trends in Health Sciences Libraries." Medical Library Association. Denver, Colorado, May 1984., (1984 - 1984).
  • Report to the Institutional Research Grant Office, Texas Woman's University. Project Title: Bradford's Law and the Maintenance of a Library Science Periodical Collection for Research. No: 29141. 1984. (7 pages), (1984 - 1984).
  • "The Latin American Students in the United States Accredited Library Schools: Update." SALALM. San Jose, Costa Rica, June 1983 (Read by Jane Gardner)., (1983 - 1983).
  • "The Latin American Students in the United States Accredited Library Schools: Update." SALALM. San Jose, Costa Rica, June 1983 (Read by Jane Gardner)., (1983 - 1983).
  • "Using the Library as a Resource for the High School and College Research Paper." Birdville Independent School District. Fort Worth, Texas, September 1983., (1983 - 1983).
  • "A Program Model for Minority Adult Services: Africa." Dallas West Public Library. Dallas, Texas, August 1982., (1982 - 1982).
  • "Developing Library Programs for Ethnic Groups." Dallas West Public Library. Dallas, Texas, June 1982., (1982 - 1982).
  • "Health Sciences Librarianship in the U.S.A.: State of the Art Report." Universidad de La Salle. Bogota, Colombia, November 1982., (1982 - 1982).
  • "Trends in Librarianship in the United States of America." University of Dakar. Dakar, Senegal, Africa, January 1982., (1982 - 1982).
  • "Dissemination of Spanish Materials: Dream or Reality?" International Conference of Children's Literature. Tucson, Arizona, April 1981., (1981 - 1981).
  • "Hispanics: Similarities and Differences." Institute on Bilingual Education Materials for Children. Texas Woman's University. Denton, Texas, June 1981., (1981 - 1981).
  • "A Cultural Perspective of the Spanish Speaking." Northeast Texas Library System. Richardson, Texas, July 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "A Historical Overview of the Spanish Population in the United States." Institute on Library Services and Materials for the Spanish Speaking, Miami, Florida, May 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Developing Information Services in Public and School Libraries for the Spanish Speaking Users." Institute on Library Services and Materials for the Spanish Speaking, Miami, Florida, May 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Library and Information Science in the Americas." Organization of American States/ Association of American Library Schools, Austin, Texas, February 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Library Service for the Bilingual." Texas Association of Bilingual Education Conference. Brownsville, Texas, November 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Perspective of Academic Library Education on the Allerton Conference Objectives and Outcomes." Medical Library Association. Washington, DC, June 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Reference Materials in Spanish." Institute on Library Services and Materials for the Spanish Speaking, Miami, Florida, May 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "School Library Services and Programs for the Spanish-Speaking Student." Institute on Bilingual Materials for Children. Texas Woman's University. Denton, Texas, June 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Selection of Spanish-Language Library Materials." Institute on Bilingual Materials for Children. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, June 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "Social and Cultural Background of Spanish Speaking Students." Dallas Independent School District, Irving, Texas, February 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "The Background of the Spanish Speaking Student." McAllen Resource Center. McAllen, Texas, November 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "The Consultant Role in the Development of Library Education Program in Latin America." Association of American Library Schools, Austin, Texas, February 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "The Hispanic Student: Culture and Social Background." Abilene Education Center, Abilene, Texas, March 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "The Library's Role in the Education of the Hispanics: Meeting Special Needs." Southeast Conference on the Education of the Hispanics, Miami, Florida, May 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • "The Spanish Speaking Students: Their Background." Fort Worth Independent School District. Fort Worth, Texas, August 1980., (1980 - 1980).
  • Report to the Office of Libraries and Learning Resources, National Endowment of the Humanities. Project Title: Extended Teacher Institute to Enrich Hispanic Bilingual/ Bicultural Humanities Curricula in Schools by Developing Library Resources. Grant No: ES-30787-78-523. 1980. (139 pages), (1980 - 1980).
  • Report to the Texas Education Agency. Project Title: Bilingual Education Materials for Children. No: 0067305. (with the Bilingual Department of Texas Woman's University). 1980. (12 pages), (1980 - 1980).
  • Report to the Texas Education Agency. Project Title: Bilingual Education Materials for Children. No: 0067305. (with the Bilingual Department of Texas Woman's University). 1980. (12 pages), (1980 - 1980).
  • "Allerton Invitational Conference on Education for Health Services Librarianship." Monticello, Illinois, April 1979. (Discussion leader and report to the Conference.), (1979 - 1979).
  • "Evaluation of Reference Materials in Spanish." Institute on Library Materials for the Spanish Speaking. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, May 1979., (1979 - 1979).
  • "How Can the Library/Media Center Serve the Spanish-Speaking Student?" Institute on Bilingual Humanities Materials for Children, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, June 1979., (1979 - 1979).
  • "Library Use, Information Needs and Reading Interests of the Spanish Speaking." Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, May 1979., (1979 - 1979).
  • "Medical Literature for the Non-Medical Librarian." Special Library Association, Dallas, Texas, December 1979., (1979 - 1979).
  • "Serials Exchange Programs in the Health Sciences." Metroplex Council of Health Science Librarians, Dallas, Texas, February 1979., (1979 - 1979).
  • "The Use of Spanish-Language Reference Materials." Institute on Bilingual Humanities Materials for Children, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, June 1979., (1979 - 1979).
  • Report to the National Endowment of the Humanities. Project Title: Institute to Enrich Hispanic Bilingual/Bicultural Humanities Curricula in Schools by Developing Library resources. Grant No: ES-30787-78-523. 1979. (45 pages), (1979 - 1979).
  • "Training Health Sciences Librarians." Metroplex Council of Health Sciences Librarians, Irving, Texas, June 1978., (1978 - 1978).
  • "Word Processing, Telecommunications and the Office of the Future." ASIS, Dallas, Texas, September 1978., (1978 - 1978).
  • "Problem Analysis of Automation." Special Libraries Association/ASIS, Cleveland, Ohio, January 1976., (1976 - 1976).

    • Invited Talk

  • Cleveland, A.D. (Coordinator/Organizer), Transdisciplinary Ancestral Genomic Research Investigations (TAGRI) II Conference, Community Outreach Session: Religious and Spiritual Leaders, American Indian and Alaska Native Community Health Representatives, and Latinx/Hispanic American Community Health Workers, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Transdisciplinary Ancestral Genomic Research Investigations (TAGRI) II Conference, Connecting Health Information Behavior to Community Engagemen in Genomic Research, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), First Flight, Health Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Field, UNT College of Information, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2021).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), HealthLINE Meeting, Envisioning the future: The intersection of trends and UNT’s Health Informatics Program, HealthLINE, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J. (Author & Presenter), Virtual Happy Hour, Impacting healthcare through information: Health sciences librarianship/informatics, UNT LISSA, Online, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J.L. (Author & Presenter), Learning to Teach: Voices from the Field Continuing Education Symposium, Panel: Essentials of Teaching for New Librarians, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Houston, TX, United States of America. (2022).

    • Paper

  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J.L. (Author & Presenter), Medical Library Association Annual Conference, A comparison of an academic health sciences library director profile in 2009 and 2024, Medical Library Association, Virtual, United States of America. (2024).
  • Tran, N. (Author & Presenter), Chen, H. (Author), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Joint Southern / South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Unveiling Key Research Themes in Disaster Informatics Amidst the Pandemic, Southern & South Central Chapters of the Medical Library Association, New Orleans, LA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Chen, H. (Author), Joint Southern/South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Dental informatics over time: A 20-years longitudinal bibliometric analysis, Southern & South Central Chapters of the Medical Library Association, New Orleans, LA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Tran, N. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Chen, H. (Author), Joint Southern/South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Exploring the Shift in Disaster Informatics Research 2016-2022, Southern & South Central Chapters of the Medical Library Association, New Orleans, LA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Lessick, S. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J.L. (Author), Vardell, E. (Author), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association Hybrid Annual Conference, Deepening research capacity of health sciences librarians: Effectiveness of the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI) Online, Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association, Detroit, MI, United States of America. (2023).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J.L. (Author & Presenter), Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association Hybrid Annual Conference, Looking back to look forward: 50 years of educating health sciences librarians., Medical Library Association/Special Libraries Association, Online, United States of America. (2023).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J. (Author & Presenter), Vardell, E. (Author), Lessick, S. (Author), South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Virtual Conference, Embedding graduate LIS students into the MLA Research Training Institute (RTI): An unique model for research methods education, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Delwood, L. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Medical Library Association 2021 vConference, Compliance of Pediatric Preoperative Fasting Guidelines: A Look at the Literature, Medical Library Association, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Sterling, E.B. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Philbrick, J. (Author), Medical Library Association 2021 vConference, Examining COVID-19 resources on the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) websites, Medical Library Association, Online, United States of America. (2021).
  • Delwood, L.J. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association 2020 Virtual Conference, Pediatric preoperative fasting compliance: A literature review, Online, United States of America. (2020).
  • Philbrick, J. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Boyce, L. (Author), South Central Chapter/Medical Library Association Virtual Conference 2020, Are Job Qualifications for Health Sciences Librarians Aligning with MLA's Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success?, Online, United States of America. (2020).
  • Sterling, E.B. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Philbrick, J. (Author), South Central Chapter/Medical Library Association Virtual Conference 2020, COVID-19 Coverage on South Central Academic Medical Libraries’ (SCAMeL) Websites, Online, United States of America. (2020).
  • Philbrick, J. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Boyce, L. (Author), Medical Library Association vConference, A comparison of health sciences librarianship job qualifications and MLA’s Competencies for Lifelong Learning and Professional Success., Online, United States of America. (2020).
  • Philbrick, J.L. (Author), Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference, Managing personality types in the workplace, United States of America. (2016).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J.L. (Author), New Mexico Library Association Mini Conference, Planning for my successor: Are my institution & library ready?, United States of America. (2016).
  • Devabhaktuni, R. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Philbrick, J.L. (Author), 23rd World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Infertility, Management of menopausal symptoms: A literature review 2010-2015, Australia. (2016).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), "Are We Meeting the Health Information Needs of Chinese Health Consumers in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area?", United States of America. (2007 - 2007).

    • Poster

  • Tran, N. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Chen, H. (Author), University Research Day, Analyzing the Evolution of the Disaster Informatics Literature From Pre-pandemic to Post-Pandemic, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2023).
  • Tran, N. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Chen, H. (Author), University Research Day, Exploring Emerging Themes and Topics in Disaster Informatics during the Pandemic Era, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2023).
  • Tran, N. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Doswell Health Informatics Conference, Discovering Insights in Disaster Informatics Research Before and During the Pandemic, Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2023).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Philbrick, J.L. (Author & Presenter), Cleveland, A.D. (Author), Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, A bibliometric study of the scholarly communications of senior and distinguished members of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, United States of America. (2018).

    • Webinar

  • Cleveland, A.D. (Author & Presenter), Chen, H. (Author & Presenter), Katragadda, N. (Author), Tran, N. (Author & Presenter), Research Brown Bag, Informatics applications in multiple fields: A bibliometric analysis, UNT Department of Information Science, Online, United States of America. (2022).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Ding, J. (Principal), Kinshuk, X. (Co-Principal), Fu, S. (Co-Principal), Ludi, S.A. (Co-Principal), Chen, H. (Co-Principal), Hossain, T. (Co-Principal), Xiao, T. (Co-Principal), Feng, Y. (Co-Principal), Cleveland, A.D. (Co-Principal), Smith, D.L. (Co-Principal), Mankins, N. (Co-Principal), Booker, D.D. (Co-Principal), Carrillo, D. (Co-Principal), "NSF Includes ARISE Alliance Membership," sponsored by Arizona State University, Other, $64800 Funded. (2024 - 2027).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Cleveland, A.D. (Other), "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK)," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Federal, $94965 Funded. (2021).
  • Cleveland, A.D. (Other), "RTI ONLINE: Deepening Research Capacity of Health Sciences Librarians," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, Federal, $227862 Funded. (2020).
  • Halbert, M.D. (Co-Principal), Chandler, Y.J. (Principal), "ELMS - Educating Librarians in the Middle South - Diversifying Librarianship for our Digital Future," sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services, FED, Funded. (2013 - 2016).

Service

University Service

  • Co-Chair, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (August 2023 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (August 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Health Informatics Asst/Assoc Professor Search Committee. (August 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Regents Professor Selection Committee. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, TGS Graduate Council. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Data Science Faculty Search Committees (2). (2021 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Program Directors' Committee. (2021 - Present).
  • Member, Women and Gender Equity Network Leadership Team. (2014 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Federation Committee. (August 2013 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Developmental Leave Committee. (2017 - 2023).
  • Co-Chair, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (August 2020 - August 2023).
  • Committee Member, IS Faculty Search Committee. (2021 - 2022).
  • Committee Member, Yvonne J. Chandler Endowed Scholarship Committee. (2020 - 2022).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Grievance Committee. (2018 - 2022).
  • Committee Chair, Health Informatics/Data Science Assistant Professor Search Committee. (2019 - 2020).
  • Member, IS Endowed Professorship Guidelines Committee (ad hoc). (2019 - 2020).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (August 2018 - August 2020).
  • Chairperson, ALA COA Standard I Working Group. (May 2019 - March 2020).
  • Committee Chair, Endowed Graduate Fellowships Committee. (2019 - 2019).
  • Chairperson, Ad Hoc Grade Appeal Committee. (May 2019 - August 2019).
  • Committee Member, Admissions and Student Affairs Committee. (August 2018 - August 2019).
  • Member, ALA COA Standard I Working Group. (October 2018 - May 2019).
  • Member, Budget Oversight Group. (2017 - 2018).
  • Committee Chair, Health Informatics Faculty Search Committee. (2017 - 2018).
  • Committee Member, External Affairs and Physical Resources Committee. (August 2017 - August 2018).
  • Committee Member, Admissions and Student Affairs Committee. (August 2016 - August 2017).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (August 2016 - August 2017).
  • Committee Chair, Administrator Evaluation Committee. (2015 - 2016).
  • Committee Member, College of Information Dean Search Committee. (2015 - 2015).
  • Committee Member, Ad Hoc Mission, Vision, and Values Committee. (2009 - 2009).
  • Committee Member, Internal Graduate Education Review Committee. (2008 - 2009).
  • Committee Member, Capstone Experience Committee. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, External Affairs Committee. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Subcommittee. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Dean Search Committee. (2008 - 2008).
  • Other (Member), IDEA Team. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, Reallocation Ad Hoc Committee. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (2007 - 2008).
  • Other (Member), Advancement Development Network, Development Office. (2007 - 2007).
  • Committee Member, Digital Knowledge Management Ad Hoc Committee. (2007 - 2007).
  • Committee Chair, Committee on Committees. (2006 - 2007).
  • Committee Member, Grade Appeal Committee. (2006 - 2006).
  • Other (Member), Hispanic and Global Studies Initiative. (2006 - 2006).
  • Committee Member, Ph.D. Evaluation Committee. (2006 - 2006).
  • Committee Member, Student Affairs Committee. (2006 - 2006).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (2003 - 2006).
  • Committee Member, External Affairs Committee. (1999 - 2006).
  • Committee Chair, School of Public Health Library Committee. (2000 - 2005).
  • Committee Member, Resource and Facilities Committee. (1999 - 2004).
  • Other (Vice-Chair), President's Inaugural Committee. (2000 - 2001).
  • Committee Member, Affirmative Action Committee. (1990 - 1999).
  • Other (Member), University Advisory Council on the Texas Education Opportunity Plan. (1989 - 1999).
  • Other (Member), Core Curriculum. (1988 - 1999).
  • Committee Member, Planning Committee. (1998 - 1998).
  • Committee Member, Comprehensive Examination Committee. (1996 - 1998).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (1995 - 1998).
  • Other (Web site developer), Capstone Medical Center Clinical Digital Library. (1997 - 1997).
  • Other (Co-organizer), El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas. (1997 - 1997).
  • Other (Member), Office of Equity and Diversity. (1997 - 1997).
  • Committee Member, Travel Committee. (1995 - 1997).
  • Committee Member, Field Experience. (1993 - 1997).
  • Committee Member, Minority Scholarships Subcommittee. (1989 - 1997).
  • Other (Co-organizer), El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas. (1996 - 1996).
  • Committee Member, Southern Accreditation of Colleges and Universities, Faculty Committee. (1993 - 1996).
  • Committee Member, Minority Scholar Subcommittee. (1989 - 1996).
  • Other (Co-organizer), El Proyecto ZAPOTLAN en Texas. (1995 - 1995).
  • Other (Co-Principal Director), University of North Texas, University of Alabama and the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center. (1995 - 1995).
  • Committee Member, Academic Affairs Committee. (1990 - 1995).
  • Other (Member), University Senate. (1990 - 1995).
  • Other (Co-Chair), Comprehensive Examination Committee. (1993 - 1994).
  • Committee Chair, Personnel Affairs Committee. (1993 - 1993).
  • Other (Co-organizer), Seventh Annual Symposium on Informatics. (1993 - 1993).
  • Committee Member, Computer Competency Committee. (1992 - 1993).
  • Task Force Member, Health Sciences Research Task Force. (1992 - 1993).
  • Other (Member), The Hispanics Friends Pro-Musica. (1992 - 1993).
  • Other (Member), Executive Board. (1991 - 1993).
  • Committee Chair, Comprehensive Examination Committee. (1988 - 1993).
  • Committee Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (1988 - 1993).
  • Other (Co-organizer), Sixth Annual Symposium on Informatics. (1992 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Annual Conference Program Committee. (1991 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Charter Revision Committee, (ad hoc). (1991 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (1989 - 1992).
  • Other (School Representative), Interdisciplinary Information Science Ph.D. Committee. (1989 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Advanced Studies Committee. (1988 - 1992).
  • Other (Co-advisor), American Society for Information Science, Student Chapter. (1988 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (1988 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (1988 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Doctoral Review Committee, (IS). (1988 - 1992).
  • Committee Member, Doctoral Review Committee, (LS). (1988 - 1992).
  • Other (Member), Internships and Practicums. (1988 - 1992).
  • Other (Advisor), Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS). (1988 - 1992).
  • Other (Co-organizer), Fifth Annual Symposium on Informatics. (1991 - 1991).
  • Committee Chair, Regents Lecture Series Committee. (1990 - 1991).
  • Other (Member), Computer Literacy. (1989 - 1991).
  • Other (Co-organizer), Fourth Annual Symposium on Informatics. (1990 - 1990).
  • Other (Member), Hispanic Friends of UNT. (1990 - 1990).
  • Committee Member, Minority Mentoring Committee. (1990 - 1990).
  • Committee Member, Committee on Committees. (1989 - 1990).
  • Other (Member), Hispanic Friends of UNT. (1989 - 1989).
  • Other (Co-organizer), Third Annual Symposium on Informatics. (1989 - 1989).
  • Committee Member, Phonothan Committee. (1988 - 1989).
  • Committee Member, Phonothan Committee. (1988 - 1989).
  • Other (Co-organizer), Second Annual Symposium on Medical Informatics. (1988 - 1988).
  • Committee Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (1988 - 1988).
  • Other (Co-organizer), First Annual Symposium on Informatics. (1986 - 1986).
  • Other (Co-director), Institute on Bilingual Education Materials for Children. (1981 - 1981).
  • Other (Co-director), Institute on Bilingual Materials for Children. (1980 - 1980).
  • Other (Co-director), Institute on Library Services and Materials for the Spanish-Speaking. (1980 - 1980).
  • Program Organizer, The Study of the Problems of Educating Latin American Librarians in the U.S.. (1980 - 1980).
  • Other (Co-director), Institute on Bilingual Humanities Materials for Children. (1979 - 1979).
  • Other (Co-director), Institute on Library Materials for the Spanish-Speaking. (1979 - 1979).

Public Service

  • Other (Fellow), Texas Center for Digital Knowledge. (2002 - 2012).
  • Other (Invited Panelist), Texas Library Association Task Force on Professionalism. (2007 - 2007).
  • Committee Member, Nominating Committee. (2006 - 2007).
  • Other (Co-Chair), Information Services Committee. (1991 - 1991).
  • Member, Texas Library Association. (1991 - 1991).
  • Other (Co-Chair), Texas Library Association. (1986 - 1986).
  • Member, Texas Library Association. (1986 - 1986).
  • Member, Texas Library Association. (1982 - 1982).

Professional Service

  • Board of Advisors, Advisory Board, Network of the National Library of Medicine Region 3. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Research Committee, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Fellows' Commitee, Medical Library Association. (2020 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Janet Doe Lecture Series Committee, Medical Library Association. (2020 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Research Training Institute Leadership Team, Medical Library Association. (2020 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Retired Librarians Round Table, Texas Library Association. (2020 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Library School Liaison, Membership Committee, Medical Library Association. (2014 - Present).
  • Chairperson, Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship Committee, Medical Library Association. (May 2020 - May 2022).
  • Member, Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lectureship Committee, Medical Library Association. (May 2019 - May 2020).
  • Committee Member, Nominating Committee, Medical Library Association. (May 2018 - May 2019).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (November 2018 - December 2018).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (April 2018 - May 2018).
  • Program Organizer, Colleague Connection, Medical Library Association. (May 2016 - May 2017).
  • Other (Chair), Medical Library Education Section. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, MLA 2009 Program Planners Committee. (2008 - 2008).
  • Committee Member, Medical Informatics Committee. (2007 - 2007).
  • Committee Member, Research Committee. (2007 - 2007).
  • Other (Organizer/Coordinator), VIVA! Project. (2007 - 2007).
  • Committee Member, Lindberg Research Fellow Committee. (2002 - 2004).
  • Committee Member, Research Committee. (2001 - 2004).
  • Committee Member, HIPAA Teleconference Planning Committee. (2002 - 2002).
  • Other (Web site coordinator), American Public Health Association-International Section. (1999 - 2001).
  • Member, Council of State, Public, and Academic Librarians. (1999 - 2001).
  • Committee Member, Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee. (1998 - 2001).
  • Committee Member, International Evidence-Based Medicine Committee. (2000 - 2000).
  • Member, MLA Focus Group - Task Force to Review the Books Publishing Program. (2000 - 2000).
  • Member, Strategies for the Prevention of Hospital Closures in Rural Texas. Denton, Texas. (2000 - 2000).
  • Member, A Prairie Health Companion. (1999 - 1999).
  • Other (Advisor), Council of W.B. Saunders Corp. (1988 - 1999).
  • Other (Web site developer), American College of International Physicians. (1995 - 1997).
  • Member, Chapter Advisory Council. (1994 - 1995).
  • Member, Pi Lambda Theta. (1988 - 1988).
  • Member, American Society for Information Science. (1987 - 1987).
  • Committee Member, Organizing Committee. (1985 - 1985).
  • Committee Member, Scholarship Committee. (1982 - 1985).
  • Other (Evaluator), National Library of Medicine and the Medical Library Association of the MEDLINE. (1979 - 1979).
  • Committee Member, Continuing Education Committee. (1978 - 1979).

Consulting

  • Texas Radiation Advisory Board, (2006 - 2011).
  • National Library of Medicine/South Central Region, (2008 - 2008).
  • NLM Planning Panel on NLM Resources and Infrastructure for the 21st Century, (2005 - 2006).
  • Consultant for Training Grants, National Network of Libraries of Medicine/ South Central Region, (2000 - 2001).
  • Evaluator of Guide to Planning an Evaluating Health Information Outreach, (2000 - 2000).
  • Committee to Evaluate the National Library of Medicine's Long Range Plan for 2000-2005, (1999 - 1999).
  • Internet Access for Administering Geographically Dispersed Residency Programs. Dept. of Family Medicine. UNT Health Sciences Center. National Library of Medicine, (1997 - 1998).
  • University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, (1996 - 1996).
  • National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, (1993 - 1993).
  • "Information Resources in Clinical Medicine." Medical Library Association. Chicago, Illinois, (1988 - 1988).
  • Lewisville Memorial Hospital. Lewisville, Texas, (1982 - 1982).
  • Universidad Javeriana. Seminario Nacional de Bibliotecas de Instituciones de Educacion Medica.) Medellin, Colombia, (1982 - 1982).
  • "Less Than Full Text Indexing Using the Indirect Method.", (1979 - 1982).
  • Education and Training of Health Sciences Librarians. Institute of Biomedical Research of the National, (1981 - 1981).
  • Division of Bilingual Education, Texas Education Agency. Austin, Texas, (1980 - 1980).
  • Assistant to Consultant (Donald B. Cleveland). Organization of American States. Management of Information Centers. Quito, Ecuador, (1976 - 1976).