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Goehlert, Robert
Librarian for Economics, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Global and West European Studies
Wells Library
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1320 E. 10th Street
Wells Library Rm E-860
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
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Phone: (812) 855-1609 Fax: (812) 855-8068 E-mail: goehlert@indiana.edu
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Robert Goehlert, after receiving his PhD and MLS from Indiana University, began his career as the Subject Specialist for Economics and Political Science in 1976. Since that time, his duties have expanded to include Criminal Justice, Global Studies and West European Studies. His principle areas of expertise are collection development and management, collection evaluation and analysis, and reference and research. He regularly teaches Collection Development and Management in the School of Library and Information Science. He has also taught a course on Special Libraries at the University of Zagreb and on the Indianapolis campus of the School of Library and Information Science.
He had several areas of research interests. He has published numerous reference books dealing with American politics, especially the Congress and Presidency. Currently he is working on a database of films and documentaries dealing with the presidency as well as a bibliographic database on American political leaders, including presidents, congressmen, justices and cabinet members. He has had a long time interest in Australia, having worked there in 1984. He maintains a bibliographic database about the Commonwealth Parliament which is archived by the Pandora Project. He has also done two digital library projects involving the publications and photographs at the Archive of the League of Nations in Geneva. As a political scientist he hasdeveloped and taught two courses focusing on the concept of the American Dream, one looking at the concept as part of the fabric of American life and the other as it is projected abroad.
(See http://mypage.iu.edu/~goehlert/portfolio/index.html.)
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