Library Responsibilities

• Coordinates the Erneston Music Library in the Broyhill Music Building
• Teaches Music Bibliography, Guitar Literature, and the Survey of Country Music
• Teaches Information Literacy modules for music history classes
• Performs in-depth reference service in music
• Manages the collection development of the music library collection, which includes books, scores, and audio-visual materials for classical, world, and popular musics (note that Appalachian and bluegrass music is collected by the Appalachian Collection in Belk)
• Develops the Web page for the Music Library
• Performs original cataloging; revises copy cataloging

Education

• B.M. in Classical Guitar Performance, University of Georgia, 1986
• M.A. in Music History and Literature, University of Georgia, 1988
• Ph.D. in Musicology, Duke University, 1995
• M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000

Service Interests

• Serves as a liason between the main library and the Hayes School of Music
• Serves on the Appalachian Studies Departmental Personnel Committee

Scholarly Interests

• The history of plucked string instruments from the 16th Century to the present, focusing primarily on the Baroque guitar, classical guitar, and lute
• The history of country music, especially involving bluegrass music from the 1940s to 1970s
• Performs on classical guitar in the Appalachian Guitar Ensemble; also performs/demonstrates on lute, steel-string guitar, banjo, mandolin, and dobro