Welcome to the Cyberbard's Home Page!
Welcome to the Cyberbard's Home Page!
I'm a transplanted Upstate New Yorker, who now lives in Culpeper, Virginia. I am a Technical Service Librarian. That means I'm one of the guys who handles the things that go on behind the scenes, so you won't see me at the reference desk very often. I currently work for the National Audio Visual Conservation Center of the Library of Congress, where I catalog motion pictures, audio recordings, and electronic resources, using the US-Marc format, The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (Second edition), the Library of Congress Subject Headings, OCLC, the Dewey Decimal System, and a variety of other tools. At various times in the past, I have been responsible for maintaining documents on World Wide Web systems, and I have assisted in Internet training workshops, also dealing with the World Wide Web and the Internet in general. My computer experience includes five programming languages, as well as DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, BSD, and Unix operating systems.
From March of 1996 until July of 2007, I was a Capital critter, living and building a career in the Washington area. Prior to that I had worked in and around Ithaca, New York, Syracuse, New York, and (very briefly) Providence, Rhode Island. Career development brought me to the nation's capital, and for over a decade I worked in various locations in and around the Washington, DC area. Washington is an exciting place, but at the same time, it's a constant rat race. After ten years, I had grown tired of the fast paced city life of the nation's capital, and longed for the thick forests and gentle hills I remembered. You can take the boy out of the country, but I guess you can't take the country out of the boy. As luck would have it, the Library of Congress was setting up a branch operation in north central Virginia, and after some perseverance I was able to transfer in August of 2007.
I am the author of a large bibliography on the Internet, which I have made available as a historical bibliography. It traces the development of the Internet from the late 1970's, through 1993. That was when the World Wide Web changed the overall look of the Internet from scientific curiosity, to publicly accessible resource. The infusion, and subsequent collapse, of the commercial entities came even later. The Internet has had a very tempestuous history. Even so, I've always been interested in how the Internet is applied to libraries and information centers, and I'm hoping the updated version of my bibliography (if I ever find the time to write it) will include references to works on this subject.
I live just outside of Culpeper, with my lovely wife Lisa, our beautiful daughter Caitlin, a very demanding guinea pig named Carmella, and a headstrong tabby-point named Catfael. My interests include writing (I'll never win a Pulitzer, but I still enjoy it), music (no Grammy's either), computers, Chinese cooking, model railroads, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, puppetry, space exploration, hiking, bike riding, and computer games of almost every type.
Last Updated: 10/6/2007