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Diane Marie Ward is a tenured professional and the principal original cataloger for the Poetry/Rare Books Collection at SUNY Buffalo. She project managed the 15,000 volume cataloging project of Rare Books for the Special Collection. She has in the past originally cataloged Internet resources, French political and revolutionary pamphlets, and managed URL maintenance and worked with metadata on the Pulp Fiction Cover Art Digital Library and the Mail Art Digital Library Collections.

She teaches as an adjunct for the Graduate School of Informatics: Organization and Classification of Information (Beginning); Organization and Classification of Information (Advanced) ; and Competitive Intelligence for Emerging Technologies; and a course on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technology).

She has recently finished a book and DVD for Neal-Schuman Publishers on RFID technology as used by Libraries.

She serves as a practicum mentor for advanced library and information studies students interested in a career in professional information management. She is a member of the local BIBCO and NACO projects for the Library of Congress' PCC Program, and was a local member of the OCLC projects, CORC and InterCat.

She publishes on RFID technology, poetics and library and information science. Her writings and research have been been published by RFID Journal, OCLC Systems and Services, Journal of Library and Archival Security, Computers in Libraries, etc.

Ward has had her poetry and poetic criticism published. She is a frequent conference presenter. She was a contributing editor of Loss Glazier's Electronic Poetry Center, a premier Poetics Web site housed at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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