My academic background is in anthropology/archaeology, with research interests in geoarchaeology (sources of lithic raw materials) and data quality. Subsequently I sought out professional accreditation as a librarian, and have been focusing in digital publishing and delivery of web services to scholars in my former discipline. I am happily employed by UB's Offic eof University Communications, as our Cybrarian (digital information coordinator). In that capacity, I work on university-wide web projects, including our MyUB, our campus portal.

I sold my car a while back and generally commute to work. My wife and I share a clean disel Jetta Sportwagen , but she mostly needs that to get to work. Gradually I am restoring an old Vespa motorscooter. It's a (1974 GTR 125), but the "scooter guy" who rebuilt it (Percy Oaks) made a bit of a mess, and I am still fixing and adjusting a lot of loose ends...

We live in a lovely 1919 Colonial Revival house in one of Buffalo's nicest historic districts, the Linwood Preservation DIstrict, where I am quite active on our street association.

And in addition, I manage to keep quite busy...

I run a number of Internet academic discussion lists, including Anthro-L, ArchComp-L, and Lithics-L, and publish several electronic publications, including the Anthropology Review Database, the "lithics site", the Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA), and the "looting bibliography". An earlier internet journal, the Journal of World Anthropology is no longer being produced.

For the long-term, I am very interested in the communication of information, not on the theoretical side, but instead in practice. For example, I would like to continue developing online archaeological resources, such as a master graphical database of names and descriptions of lithic materials. (As you can see in the cartoon, lithic sourcing is a difficult process, involving long hours of careful work... shh!) And of course I will continue with WEDA and the Anthropology Review Database, and any of their offspring.

As my progression into information science proceeds, my research interests are similarly drifting more into the nature of information exchange on a broad level. Where this will all hash out, I do not yet know, but I am beginning to present papers and publish on the issues as I encounter them (see my CV)!

(last updated Sep '11)