Curriculum Vita - Rich Gause

University of Central Florida
Library, Reference Department
PO Box 162666
Orlando, FL 32816-2666

phone: (W) 407-823-2563
(H) 407-277-6446
email: rgause@mail.ucf.edu
web site: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/

Ø Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, M.L.S, Information Science, 1985.

Ø United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, B.S., Physical Science, 1979.

Ø University of Central Florida Library, Orlando, Florida, Government Documents Librarian,
April 1998-present.

o Network Services Specialist, Information Systems Department, February 1996-January 1997.

o Reference Librarian, various departments and branches, August 1986-February 1996.

Ø Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Reference Librarian, August 1985-July 1986.

Ø State Library of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, Serials Assistant, May 1985-August 1985.

Ø Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Graduate Assistant, June 1984-April 1985,
July 1985-August 1985.

o Administrative Officer, Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility, April 1982-February 1984.

o Student/Duty Officer, various schools in Newport, Rhode Island and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1979-December 1979.

o Midshipman, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, July 1975-May 1979.

Ø "Legal Research," presented at the Central Florida Library Consortium Government Documents Interest Group meeting, Ft. Pierce, Florida, November 8, 2001.

Ø "Go Where and Do What??? Creating Effective Library Assignments," presented on seven occasions at various Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning workshops: Summer Institute 2000, New Faculty Orientation 2000, Summer Institute 2001, Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation 2001, New Faculty Orientation 2001, and Faculty Development Series 2001, Orlando, Florida, May 2 & 3, 2000, August 2000, May 1, 2001, August 7 & 15, 2001, and October 3, 2001.

Ø "Statistics, Demographics, & Census," presented at the Central Florida Library Consortium Government Documents Interest Group meeting, Leesburg, Florida, March 2000.

Ø "Marketing of Government Documents", presented with Meg Scharf and Peter Spyers-Duran at the Central Florida Library Consortium Government Documents Interest Group meeting, Maitland, Florida, November 1998.

Ø Poster Session: "Electronic Access to Government Information," presented with Peter Spyers-Duran at EDUCOM '98: Making the Connections, Orlando, Florida, October 14 and 15, 1998.

o Chair of Government Documents Interest Group, 1998-2000. Coordinated a pre-conference program and the Interest Group program for the April 2000 Florida Library Association annual conference. Also coordinated the Interest Group program for the April 1999 conference.

o UCF Senator, 2000-2002, for members from the Library, College of Business Administration, Rosen School of Hospitality Management, College of Engineering & Computer Science, School of Optics/CREOL, Florida Solar Energy Center, and Administrative & Professional.

o Attended FTP-NEA Delegate Assembly and Florida Education Association Founding Convention in May 2000. Attended UFF Senate Meetings in April 2001, and October 2001.

o Supervise the maintenance of the U.S. and Florida Documents Collections. Provide notifications and training sessions for librarian colleagues to keep them aware of changes in resources. Assist the Patents Coordinator in maintenance of the Patents & Trademarks Depository Collection and with Patents Open House in February 2000.

o Attended the Federal Depository Library Council Meetings in Arlington, Virginia, April 1998; Bethesda, Maryland, April 1999; and Arlington, Virginia, October 2000. Attended the Florida Public Documents Biennial Meetings in Tallahassee, Florida, February 2000 and January 2002. Attended a three-day Geographic Information Systems continuing education course, "GIS and the Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL)" at the TREEO Center Computer Lab, Gainesville, Florida, November 1998.

o Create and maintain Library Web pages to guide librarians, faculty, staff, students and the general public in their use of various library and Web resources dealing with all levels of government from local to international. Specific pages have also been created dealing with demographics, digitized collections, elections, Florida history, genealogy, grants, maps & geographic information systems, microforms, newspapers, standards, taxes, technical reports, treaties and weather. Links to the URLs can be found at http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/.

o Taught library instruction sessions varying in length from 45 minutes to 3 hours for undergraduate and graduate students. Most sessions were held in one of the Library's electronic classrooms, but some sessions took place in wired and unwired classrooms around the main campus, in electronic classrooms at the Daytona and Downtown campuses, and using Interactive Television (ITV) with half the students in a classroom at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. Created Web pages for use by students in the specific subject classes; URLs can be found at http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/classes/libinst.htm. In addition to general sessions for English Composition and Strategies for Success in College, specific subject sessions were taught for Legal Research, Real Estate Law, International Law, International Organizations, Conflict & Terrorism, Crime in America, Nature of Crime, Criminal Justice Technology & Data Management, Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Administration of Justice, Issues in Justice Policy, Transitional Concepts in Nursing, Advanced Counseling Theories, Collective Behavior, Social Welfare Policies & Issues, Juvenile Delinquency, Scope & Methods of Political Science, Administration of Public Policy, Careers in Public Affairs, Politics Governance & Financing of Educational Organizations, Fundamentals of Graduate Research in Education, Research Design in Education, Principles of Instruction & Learning, Curriculum Inquiry, Advanced Curriculum Theory, Education Doctoral Seminar, Communication for Instructional Systems-Process, Theories of Literature, Technical Documentation, Writing for the Business Professional, Principles of Economics, Economic Development, Comparative Market Behavior & Institutional Analysis, Economics of European Integration, History & Historians, History of the United States 1492-1877, Colloquium in Civil War & Reconstruction, Southern City, and The British Colonies from an Atlantic Perspective.

o Created Web & print guide for Basic Legal Research in 2001. Created help guides for Census CD-ROMs and LandView CD-ROMs and revised help guide for National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) in 1998-99. Revised library printed guides in 1998 for Film and Literary Criticism: Poetry.

o Coordinated with the Head of Cataloging the Library's participation in the State University System change from OCLC tapeloads to MARCIVE tapeloads for Federal Depository documents.

o Coordinated the Library's participation in the National Technical Information Service (NTIS)/Government Printing Office (GPO) Depository Library Pilot Project to provide full-text electronic access to recent NTIS documents via the Internet. Only 22 of the 1,350 Depository Libraries were involved in the 1998-1999 pilot project.

o Completed and submitted a Self-Study of the UCF Federal Depository Collection in 1999, the first step in the periodic inspection by the U.S. Government Printing Office, last conducted at UCF in 1993. Upon GPO staff review of the Self-Study, an on-site inspection was deemed unnecessary.

o Co-drafted floorplan for increasing office space in the Library Reference Department.

o As Assistant Manager in the Arts & Literature Department, was responsible for scheduling, payroll, collection development, training, and staff evaluations. Provided training to staff in use of the Internet, various CD-ROMs, and Web-based subscription resources such as EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. Interacted daily with the public in their use of these services. Planned and implemented a new shelving area for Young Adult fiction to provide a more visible and inviting public display. Created a reference guide for the poetry collections.

o Served on the principal evaluation team for selecting the new integrated computer system to replace the existing catalog and circulation system.

o Developed and maintained the Orange County Library System's initial Web site from February 1996 through January 1997. Served as the Information Systems Department's liaison with public service departments to resolve problems and develop trouble-shooting guidelines.

o Reviewed and weeded the entire fiction and nonfiction collections at three separate branch libraries, 1991-1993. Provided reference services at each of three branch libraries and served occasionally as a substitute librarian at the other eight branch libraries, 1991-1993. Planned and conducted children's story programs at the South Trail Branch Library during spring 1993.

o Spent three years in the Planning & Local Government Department providing in-depth research for government staff from local municipalities, counties, and regional and State agencies. Maintained and catalogued government publications from these and Federal agencies. Responsible for outreach to local agencies to promote use of the research services. Provided basic reference service to the local legal community in its use of the Orange County Law Library, which was maintained as a separate collection in this department. Planned and supervised the physical move to new quarters of the department and its 40,000+ volume collection in 1990.

o Provided reference services in the Social Science Department. Responsible for collection management of circulating books in the 000-099 Dewey Decimal Classification. Personally reclassified over 2,000 books dealing with personal computers when the Dewey Decimal Classification System changed to provide expanded and more specific access. Served on departmental team to evaluate and barcode the book collection for inventory and circulation functions. Created cross-reference index for communities included on street maps in the vertical files.

o Served as library liaison with the College of Business and the Economics Department.

o Conducted online searches of business and education databases. Developed subject guides to the library for business research. Gave general and business tours of the library.

o Co-wrote the staff training manual for new online library catalog system, LUIS.

o Served as a principal evaluator in The Internet Filter Assessment Project during 1997. The purpose of this international project was to evaluate Internet content filters from a librarian's point of view. Several dozen librarians from around the world participated.

o Developed Internet Room Web Site for the Florida Library Association's 1997 Conference.

o Served on the Education Task Force for Orlando's Well-Connected Community project in 1995. The project resulted in the first Internet directory providing information about Central Florida schools, local governments, businesses, cultural institutions and social services agencies.

Curriculum Vitae

John Richard Gause, Jr.