course in the Master's program, LIS 200, Introduction to Information Science, for several years, as well as
a course in cataloging and one in Health Sciences Bibliography.

Norma received her M.L.S. in 1978 from the U.C. Berkeley School of Library Science. She has worked
at the Library at Berkeley since that time, in the Serials Department, the Health Sciences Information
Service, and the Natural Resources Library. From 1983-1989 she was the Head of the Natural Resources
Library, until the initial merger with the Biology Library.

She received a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Cornell University in 1970; she taught Spanish from
1969 through 1977 at College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California, where she was Chair of the Spanish
Department.

Professional activities outside Berkeley have included membership in USAIN, ALA and SLA. She is
currently the Chair of the Editorial Board of Choice (a publication of ACRL), having served as a member
of the Editorial Board for the previous four years, and as a reviewer since 1971. She is also on the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Information; she is serving on the Oberly Award
Committee of the ScilTech Division of ACRL; this committee presents an award every two years to the
best bibliography in the field of agriculture. She was President of the Northern California and Nevada
Medical Library Group (a chapter of MLA) and served on that board for several years. Norma was Chair
of LAUC-B (the Librarian's Association of University California, Berkeley), and has been a member of
several local and statewide LAUC committees.

Her most recent publications are two articles on impact factors in ecology journals, co-authored with
Prof. Vince Resh of the Entomology Department at Berkeley and Professor Bernard Statzner of Lyons,
France, published in Oikos (April, 1995) and Trends in Ecology and Evolution (May, 1995). She has
written numerous book reviews, and recently refereed two books published by Cornell University Press
and the University of California Press in the field of agriculture.


Robert Bruce McGeachin

Dr. Rob McGeachin is an Assistant Professor and Agriculture Reference Librarian at the West Campus
Library of Texas A&M University, a branch of the main campus Sterling C. Evans Library. He has been
with the West Campus Library since March of 1994 and was a Science Reference Librarian at Evans
Library from October of 1992 through February of 1994. In addition to reference duties he works with
agricultural faculty for collection development of the agriculture collection of the West Campus Library.
He has worked as a technician, research associate and visiting instructor with the aquaculture program of
the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences of Texas A&M University from 1981 through 1984
teaching fisheries classes, conducting fish nutrition research and working in the middle east on USAID
funded fish culture projects. In 1985-86 he was anaquaculture research scientist at the Caribbean Marine
Research Center, Lee Stocking Island, Exuma Cays, Bahamas, doingmarine fish culture research. He also
was a technician with the Poultry Science Department of Texas A&M University for six years conducting
biochemical and nutrition research with poultry.

In addition to a Masters Degree in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Texas at
Austin in 1992, he has a Bachelors Degree with a double major in biology and anthropology from the
University of Louisville (1973) and Masters and Doctoral Degrees (1977 and 1980) in aquaculture
(Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences) from Texas A&M University. He has a broad background from work
and educational experience in agricultural research and agriculture in general.

Professional activities include membership in the American Fisheries Society, World Aquaculture Society,
the United States Agriculture Information Network, the International Association of Agriculture