CURRICULUM VITA Roger Beckman EDUCATION: 1994 Indiana University, Bloomington. M.A. degree in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program in the Biology Department 1976 Indiana University, Bloomington M.L.S. (Master of Library Science) 1972 Indiana University, Bloomington B.A. Anthropology PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE June 1, 2004 - present Head, Indiana University Life Sciences Library and Chemistry Library April 15, 2000-May 31, 2004 Head, Indiana University Life Sciences Library July 1, 2003-May 31, 2004 Interim Head, Indiana University Chemistry Library Feb.1999-April 14, 2000 Acting Head, Indiana University Life Sciences Library Jan.-July 1998 Acting Head, Indiana University Chemistry Library August 1988-April 15, 2000 Assistant Head/Reference Librarian Chemistry Library Indiana Univ. Libraries, Bloomington Rank: Associate Librarian (tenured) Jan. 1988-Aug. 1988 Cataloger (Part-time) Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Oct. 1986-Dec. 1987 Cataloger, Indiana Newspaper Project (4/5th-time) Sept. 1983-Aug. 1986 Head, Optometry Library Indiana Univ. Libraries, Bloomington May 1985-April 1986 Consultant to University of Indonesia Libraries MUCIA Project Sept. 1983-Dec. 1984 Visiting Reference Librarian and Regional Campus Reference Liaison (half-time) Reference Department Indiana Univ. Libraries, Bloomington March 1983-August 1983 Acting Assistant Head and Acting Head, Swain Hall Library Indiana Univ. Libraries, Bloomington Jan. 1981-Feb. 1983 Visiting Affiliate Librarian (full and part-time) Government Documents Department Indiana Univ. Libraries, Bloomington PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND OFFICES Special Libraries Association (SLA) Chemistry Division 1986- Science & Technology Division 1997- Biomedical & Life Sciences Division 2000- President/President-elect Indiana Chapter SLA 1993/95 Past-Chair/Chair/Chair-Elect Chemistry Division SLA 1996/99 American Chemical Society 2008- Division of Chemical Information 1993- Royal Society of Chemistry 2007- Indiana Online Users' Group 1988- Co-Chair, Program Committee 1991/93 Indiana University Librarians Association 1982- Secretary 1990/91 At-Large Board Member 1991/92 Treasurer 1998/99 At-Large Board Member 2005/06 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: I have taught 2 courses in the Indiana University Department of Chemistry, as overload appointments 1988-1991: C400 Chemical Information Sources and Services (1 semester hour) C401 Computer Sources for Chemical Information (1 semester hour) In Summer Session II, 1998 and 1999, I was part of a team of science librarians that taught L624 - Information in Science and Technology (3 semester hours) I co-taught M400 Biomedical Documentation spring 1999/2000 PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, BOOK REVIEWS, POSTER SESSIONS, and WEBPAGES "E-book Usage among Chemists, Biochemists and Biologists: Findings of a Survey and Interviews" with Yuening Zhang. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Spring, 2011. http://www.istl.org/11-spring/article2.html. "Science-Technology Division Member Spotlight" by Diane Foster. SciTech News, vol. 65, Iss. 1, Art. 14 [2011]. http://jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1156&context=scitechnews "The Future of Searching for Chemical Information" with David J. Wild. In Chemical Information Mining: Facilitating Literature- Based Discovery; Edited by Debra L. Banville. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 2009; pp. 171-184. "How Librarians and Researchers go about Gaining Access to Information". In LiveWire, the ACS Publications online newsletter (Issue 6.9 September 2005 http://pubs.acs.org/4librarians/livewire/2005/6.9/index.html). “Chemistry” with Gary Wiggins and Keith Schreiber. In Internet Tools of the Profession: A Guide for Information Professionals; Edited by Hope Tillman. 2nd. Ed. SLA: Washington, D.C., 1997. The basic information and links are also available at http://www.sla.org/pubs/itotp/c5.htm. “Beilstein's Crossfire: a milestone in chemical information and interlibrary cooperation in academia” (with Ken Rouse). In The Beilstein System: Database and Software; Edited by Steve Heller. ACS: Washington, D.C., 1997; pp. 133-148. “A Chemical Information Sabbatical,” Indiana SLANT: the newsletter of the Indiana Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (Vol. 57, no. 3, 1997). “A Chemical Information Sabbatical: Information Provision and Training in an Academic Setting,” delivered at the 2nd International Conference for Chemical Information Users, Manchester, UK on 15 November, 1995. Epigaea repens in Indiana : habitat associations and the effects of controlled burning. MA Thesis, Indiana University, 1994. (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/587) Prepared the section on Peru for Guide to Official Publications of Foreign Countries. [Bethesda, Md]: CIS, 1990. Contributed to The Indiana Newspaper Messenger: a Report on the Indiana Newspaper Project (No. 3, December 1986). "Optometric Education in Indonesia," Interoptics: Bulletin of the International Optometric and Optical League (No. 72:1-2, 1986). One of co-authors of "The Team Approach to Library Consulting in a Developing Country" C+RL News (46:629-632, 1985). Indians of Latin America: an Exhibition of Materials in the Lilly Library (with Rebecca Cape). Bloomington: Lilly Library, 1976. Reviews: EndNote 2.3 Software Review J. Chem. Infor. And Comp. Sci. (37:957-958, 1997) http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?ci970344h/8759 “Review of the British Pharmacopoeia CD-ROM”(with Marilynn Dunker). Dec. 9, 1994 on the CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST. The archives are available at http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html. Name Reactions and Reagents in Organic Synthesis by Bradford P. Mundy for Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (31:170-171, 1991). Bowker's Sci-Tech Reference Plus CD-ROM for "Databases" column in RQ (30:408-409, 1991). Reviews of government documents in Government Publications Review (10:598-624, 1983) and Focus on Indiana Libraries (36(5):18, 1982; 36(1):12, 1982; 36(3):15, 1982) Poster sessions: "Habitat Associations and Management of the Trailing Arbutus" at the 19th annual national Natural Areas Association Conference, Bloomington, IN, October 27-30, 1992. "Use of Current Contents on Diskette" at the 1991 American Chemical Society Joint Central-Great Lakes Regional Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, May 30, 1991. "IU Libraries' Team of Consultants at the University of Indonesia Libraries 1984/85" at the 2nd National Conference on Librarians and International Development, Bloomington, IN, May 8, 1989. WEBPAGES/LISTSERV: I contribute to: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=87/ [Life Sciences page] http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=78 [Chemistry Library page] http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/cciimtoc.html.