An Autobiographical Sketch
My publishing and editing career actually began thirty years ago (and then some—I was barely out of diapers), when I found myself news editor of the campus weekly at my alma mater, Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana. I later served as that paper’s editor, as well, and I graduated with a minor in journalism. (My major was in the School Media Services program—a combination library science and K–12 teaching degree.)
After graduation, I was hired to be a reference librarian at the Dayton and Montgomery County (Ohio) Public Library. There, my activities focused on researching business- and science-based problems and questions and on writing and editing a monthly annotated book review newsletter of new titles in those subject areas. I also started dabbling in local history research and in writing up stories for area publications that focused on the county’s towns and buildings, families and businesses, and institutions and organizations.
In the late 1980s, I left the DMCPL and became a staff researcher and the publications director for the Montgomery County Historical Society in Dayton. There, I was responsible for helping to research, write, and produce brochures, exhibit guides, and a variety of materials that benefited and promoted membership with the society.
During this time, I also started my first business: Freelance Library Services. FLS enabled me to make my skills as a librarian and researcher available to individuals, small businesses, nonprofit agencies, and government programs that needed them. My clients were located throughout the Dayton-Columbus-Cincinnati corridor.
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