Contact: shemat@aol.com

Website: www.simmons.edu/gslis/ about/faculty/intner.shtml

Instructor for:
Weeding Can Be Beautiful! Why Less Is More in Library Collections

Sheila S. Intner is Professor Emerita and Founding Director of the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science master's degree program at Mount Holyoke College. Among the awards she has received are the American Library Association's Margaret Mann Citation Award for outstanding contributions to education for cataloging and classification, the New England Technical Services Annual Award (2003), and the 2003 Distinguished Alumna Annual Award from Queens College, City University of NY. She has served as an American Library Association Councilor-at-large, Chairperson of the Cataloging & Classification Section of ALCTS, and as President of ALCTS. She is the author or principal editor of 20 books, including Standard Cataloging for School and Public Libraries (Libraries Unlimited, 2002), Electronic Cataloging (Haworth, 2003), Cataloging Correctly for Kids (ALA Editions, 2006), and Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries (Libraries Unlimited, 2006).