Selected Presentations

• "Double-knit Technotwits, Renaissance Cowgirls, and Our Lady of Literacy: The State of Library Education." Florida Library Association, Gainsville, FA. (May 8, 1997).
• "Honit Sort Qui Mal Y Pense: Library History." Beta Phi Mu, Chapel Hill, NC (April 25, 1997).
• "From Library Hand To Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Ignominious Lessons from Library Education History." North Carolina Alumni Association. Chapel Hill, NC (April 25, 1997).
• "It Takes a Real Woman to Make a Library: Southern Libraries in the Progressive Era, 1895 - 1945." Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library (Feb. 14, 1996).
• "A Cooking Exemplar for Ed Holley's Retirement Roast." The Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC (Nov. 17, 1995).
• "Past Invisible, Present Imperfect: Lesbigays in Librarianship." Library Forum, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Oct. 12, 1995).
• "Dip, Dress and Smile: Squeezing BI in the Curriculum Somewhere Past TQM." North Carolina Library Association Bibliographic Instruction Section (Oct. 6, 1995).
• "The Curious Habit: Learning, the Public Library and Self-Discovery." Friends of the Greensboro Public Library Forum Series (Aug. 10, 1995).
• "The Silence Surrounding Lesbigay Library History." Library History Round Table / Social Responsibilities Round Table, Chicago, IL (1995).
• "'Mortified to Have Our Northern Friends Hear Such Talk': Regionalism, Sectionalism, and Southern Librarianship, 1897 - 1960." Beta Phi Mu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (1995).
• "From Herded Tours and Big Red Books to Patron Therapy and Machine Wars: Bibliographic Instruction in an Age of Accountability." North Carolina Community College and Learning Resource Associates, Asheville, NC (1995).
• With Marilyn L. Shontz, "The Last Socially Acceptable Prejudice: A Survey of Attitudes Towards Social Responsibility and Gay and Lesbian Issues Among Recent LIS Graduates." Association of Library and Information Science Education (January 1995).
• "I Am Strong/I Am Invincible/I Can Do Anything/I Am ... 'Women as Lawyers'?!": Problems of Categorizing Thought in Western Libraries and Their Effects on Users." Defining Diversity Forum, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Cullowhee, NC (1994).
• "'All She Has to Do is Bat Her Eyes': The Problem of Gender in Southern Librarianship." Women's Studies Forum, Greensboro, NC (1994).
• "'Outside the Male-Stream': Region, Gender, Race and Power in Southern Librarianship, 1905-1945." American Educational Studies Association, Chapel Hill, NC (1994).
• "Coming Out as a Form of Individualism: A Pre-Stonewall Relic." Stonewall Gay and Lesbian Student Association, Florida International University (October 12, 1994).
• "Southerners in the North and Northerners in the South: The Impact of the University of Illinois Library School on Southern Librarianship." American Library Association, Library History Round Table Research Forum, New Orleans, LA (June 29, 1993).
• "Tribute to Edward G. Holley." American Library Association Library History Round Table Program on "Perspectives on the Scholar's Workshop: Papers in Honor of Edward G. Holley." New Orleans, LA (June 28, 1993).
• "Directions for Library Education in the Nineties." Alumni Association, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (April 19, 1991).
• "Reference Work in the Public Library." Staff workshop, Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro, NC (April 18, 1991).
• "Melting-Pot or Mosaic: Multicultural Diversity in the Library." Alumni Association, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (April 13, 1991).
• "Agenda for Academic Libraries in 2001." Jackson Library Staff Retreat, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (March 1, 1991).
• "Female Library Educators in the South." Association for Library and Information Science Education, New Orleans, LA (January 4, 1991).
• "Challenges to Library Education: A Historical View of the Future." Guilford Library Association, Greensboro, NC (October 25, 1990).
• "Censorship and the Arts." Friday Forum, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (May 18, 1990).
• "The Human Element in Historical Research: Librarians and the American Library Association Archives." Libraries and Culture Seminar VIII, Bloomington, IN (May 10, 1990).
• "Biographical Research: Smiles, Trials and Miles." Association for Library and Information Science Education, Chicago, IL (Jan. 4, 1990).
• "Library History: A 'Soft' Science?" Beta Phi Mu, Beta Beta Zeta Chapter, Greensboro, NC (May 6, 1988).
• "Tommie, Topie, Louie, and Southern Library Development." Library and Information Science Student Association, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (May 4, 1988).
• "A Library School for Southern Conditions." Evalene Parsons Jackson Lecture, Emory University (April 9, 1988).
• "The History of Libraries in the South." School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University (March 21, 1988).
• "Can You Love Her?: The 'New Woman' at the Atlanta Public Library, 1915-1930." Beta Phi Mu, Epsilon Chapter, Chapel Hill, NC (May 1, 1987).
• "Atlanta's Female Librarians, 1883-1915." Library History Seminar VII, Chapel Hill, NC (March 7, 1986).
• "Christmas and the Confederacy." The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Milledgeville Chapter (December 8, 1981).
• "Emily Post in Peyton Place: The Residue of Etiquette." Milledgeville Book Club, Milledgeville, GA (March 11, 1980).
• "From Shenandoah to Skylab: An Overview of Images in the South." Colonial Dames of America, Milledgeville, GA Chapter (October 23, 1979); Georgia College Baldwin County Alumni Club, Milledgeville, GA (November 1, 1979).
• "Archival Resources in Architectural Research." Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Milledgeville, GA (June 17, 1978).

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