Collection Development Tools/Methods for Virtual Libraries and Subject Lists in Selected Major Subject Areas

Charlene Baldwin
Assistant University Librarian, Sciences Division
University of California, Riverside
Romeilia Salinas
CLNet Manager
University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Chabran
Director, Chicano Studies Research Library
University of California, Los Angeles
Lynne Reasoner
Government Documents Librarian
University of California, Riverside
Lucia Snowhill
Social Sciences Collection Coordinator
University of California, Santa Barbara
Garrett Bowles
Music Librarian
University of California, San Diego
Fred Yuengling
Physical Sciences and Math Bibliographer
University of California, Santa Cruz
Carlos Rodriguez
Science Reference Librarian
University of California, Riverside
Steve Mitchell
Science Reference Librarian & INFOMINE Co-Coordinator
University of California, Riverside

Charlene Baldwin, Moderator:
B.A., California State University, Sacramento, 1970. M.A., University of Chicago, 1973. Assistant University Librarian for the Sciences, University of California, Riverside since 1994. Active member of SLA. Interests include international librarianship and the development and appropriate use of computer technology in libraries.

Garrett H. Bowles:
A.B., UC, Davis, 1960. M.A. San Jose State University, 1962. M.L.S. UC, Berkeley, 1965. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1978. Worked at Stanford University, 1965-79; Music Librarian, UC, San Diego, since 1979. Active member of the Music Library Association, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, and International Association of Music Libraries. Garrett is known for advocating computer technology in music libraries. Among his many activities in that vein, he chaired the joint Music Library Association - Library of Congress committee which developed the MARC format for music.

Richard Chabran:
Richard is Librarian In Charge, Chicano Studies Research Library, UCLA. He is a co-founder of the Chicano Periodical Index, the Chicano Database, and Chicano/Latinonet. He recently co-edited the Latino Encyclopedia, a six volume set published by Marshall Cavendish.

Steve Mitchell:
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977. M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1986. Science Reference Librarian, University of California, Riverside, 1986-present. Co-coordinator of INFOMINE. SLA member.

Lynne Reasoner:
B.A., University of Redlands, 1974. M.L.S. University of California, Berkeley, 1977. Lynne is a government publications librarian at the University of California, Riverside. Over the past two years she has constructed the Government Information INFOMINE, which indexes and provides links to U.S. federal government and California state government Internet servers.

Carlos Rodriguez:
B.S., University of California, Riverside, 1990. M.L.I.S. from UCLA in 1995. UCR Science Reference Librarian since 1995. Member of ASIS, ACM, LITA, REFORMA, and ALA. Developer of UCR's Electronic Library Information Kiosk. Member of the INFOMINE development team and serves as the facilitator of the Physical Sciences INFOMINE database.

Romelia Salinas:
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Law & Society/Chicano Studies, 1992. MLS, UCLA, 1994. Manager of CLNet (Chicano/LatinoNet) at UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Library, a web and gopher site dealing with Latino issues. Moderator of a listserv on Latina women issues.

Lucia Snowhill:
B.A., Occidental College, 1971. M.S.L.S., University of Southern California, 1973. Worked at Dallas Public Library, Xavier College (Cincinnati), Ventura Public Library System, and has been at UC Santa Barbara since 1978. Lucia is Social Sciences Collection Coordinator and collection manager for Political Science, Law, and government documents. She has been active in GODORT, LAUC, and now ACRL, with a special interest in federal information policy.

Fred Yeungling:
M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1986. University of California, Santa Cruz Science Reference Librarian since 1988. UCSC Physical Sciences and Mathematics Bibliographer since 1992. Member of SLA, CARL, and SEAL. INFOMINE participant in math and astronomy.