Vita
LESLIE CAMPBELL RAMPEY, Ph.D.
P. O. Box 83
Cochran, GA 31014
phones: 912 934-3179 (work)
912 934-1830 (home)
e-mail: LRampey@warrior.mgc.peachnet.edu
EMPLOYMENT:
Sept.
1991 - present: Assistant Librarian for Public Services and Associate Professor
of Library Science, Roberts Library, Middle Georgia College, Cochran, GA 31014.
Duties
include: traditional reference service; management of electronic information
resources; library instruction; composition of weekly newsletter and other
informational materials, and service on various faculty committees.
Special
service has included serving as the College's Coordinator of Distance Learning
Development (1993-94); membership on the (Georgia) University System Ad Hoc
Committee on Distance Learning and Instructional Technology -- Academic
Services Workgroup (1994-1995); the GALILEO Reference Steering Committee
(2000-present), and presenting numerous Internet workshops to both campus and
community groups.
Sept.
1984 - May 1990: Assistant Professor of English; Division of Humanities;
Brewton-Parker College; Mt. Vernon, GA 30455.
Duties
included teaching various English courses in literature and composition at both
junior and senior college levels, service on various faculty committees, and
student advising.
Special
service included chairing a SACS self-study committee on Institutional Purpose.
Tenure
granted 1989; promotion to Associate Professor would have become effective
Sept. 1990.
Additional
teaching experience: 1976-1983. Graduate teaching assistant, Dept. of English,
University of Mississippi. Was instructor of record of two or three classes
each semester at freshman and sophomore levels.
Additional
library experience: Summers 1982 and 1983. Library assistant, J. D. Williams
Library, University of Mississippi. Rotated in departments of Reference,
Circulation, Periodicals, and Inter-Library Loan.
EDUCATION:
August
1991 - M.L.I.S., University of South Carolina.
August
1983 - Ph.D. in English, University of Mississippi.
May
1978 - M.A. in English, University of Mississippi.
May
1974 - B.A. in English and Spanish, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Elected
to Phi Beta Kappa, May 1974.
PUBLICATIONS and
PRESENTATIONS:
"The
Accidental Audience: You Never Know They're Out There." With Bryan Rampey.
Presentation to the Thirteenth International Conference on College Teaching and
Learning. Jacksonville, FL, April 13, 2002.
"File
It Under 'Conversations That Never Took Place.'" apocrypha 6:3
(Fall 2002). http://www.podengo.com/apocrypha
"Distant
Adventures: GALILEO in Iceland." Information Technology (Office of Information
and Instructional Technology [OIIT] News Bulletin), Oct. - Dec 1997, p. 3.
"GALILEO:
Leveling the Information Playing Field." Keynote address to the
Association of Icelandic Research Librarians," Reykjavik, Iceland. Sept.
11, 1997.
(Similar
presentations also made to a group of library science students and professors
at Landbokasafns Islands/Haskolabokasafns [the National and University Library]
in Reykjavik on Sept. 8, 1997; and to school librarians at Flensborgarskolinn,
a public school in Hafnarfjodur, Iceland, on Sept. 9, 1997.)
"Internet
Access Policy: Censorship and Privacy Concerns." Presentation to the
Ethics Section of the Tennessee Academy of Science. University of the South,
Sewanee, TN. Nov. 22, 1996.
"Use
It! Usenet As a Reference Tool." College and Research Libraries News
57 (May 1996: 294-6.
"Not
Ready for Reference??? A Rebuttal to 'Putting the Internet in
Perspective.'" The Internet Homesteader, vol. 2, May 1995, pp. 33
& 28.
"An
Internet Christmas Sampler." The Internet Homesteader, vol. 1,
December 1994, pp. 1 & 5-6.
"Confessions
of a FreeNet Junkie." The Internet Homesteader, vol. 1, Sept. 1994,
pp. 1 & 5-7.
"Holocaust
Resources on the Internet." The Internet Homesteader, vol. 1,
August 1994, pp. 1 & 5-7.
"Done
In by a Squirrel!" [Experience of losing Internet access when a squirrel
chewed through library's cable.] Contribution to Federation of American
Research Networks (FARNet) Stories Project, "51 Reasons to Build the
National Information Infrastructure," Feb./March 1993. Access:
ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/documents/farnet/stories/GA/story062.GA
[as
Leslie Jean Campbell] "Exercises in Doom: Yoknapatawpha County
Weddings." Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association.
4:2 (Spring 1978):1-7.
[as
Leslie Jean Campbell] "Bellamann, Katherine Jones." In Lives of
Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967. Ed. James B. Lloyd. Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 1981. pp. 27-28.
MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIENCE
AND SKILLS
Received,
with Dr. Phil Gibbs, an MGC-FTP mini-grant to team-teach Web-enhanced classes
in Early American Literature and Early American History. Spring Semester 2001.
Individual Web pages created under that grant now are accessed worldwide.
Numerous
public presentations to both academic and community groups (on both literary and
electronic information topics), including teaching an Elder Hostel course on
William Faulkner, participation in a panel discussion for a University of South
Carolina academic librarianship class in Eastman, GA, Oct. 9, 1993, and several
guest lectureships to individual USC librarianship classes.
Continuing
education has included attendance at the 2nd and 3rd
Annual Information Access Conference, Univ. Of South Carolina, Columbia, SC,
1994 and 1995; an indexing workshop at the College of Library and Information
Science, the Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, Dec. 12, 1997; completed
Sociology 335, "History, Memory, and the Holocaust," a Web-based DL
class at Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, Spring 2000.
Knowledge
of HTML publishing; author of various Web pages including "Henry
Bellamann, 1882-1945," http://geocities.datacellar.net/LRampey/henry.htm,
devoted to the career and works of the Missouri novelist and poet (1800 visits
since June 1999); "Leslie’s Seven Sushi Lessons," http://geocities.datacellar.net/LRampey/16.htm
(over 5000 visits since June 1999).
Good
reading and writing knowledge of Spanish; passable spoken Spanish. Some reading
knowledge of German and Icelandic. Basic knowledge of Japanese katakana and
kanji writing systems.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON
REQUEST