While continuing my duties as Director of the Architecture Library (see below), I also:

• Planned, budgeted, and implemented all library technology.
• Supervised the Systems Librarian.
• Developed and motivated library staff in the creation and use of shared information on the library's LAN.
• Shared overall NJIT library management responsibilities with the other members of the Management Team (University Librarian, Assistant University Librarian, and Director of Projects and Grants).

Director of the Architecture Library, July 1996 to February 2001
Architecture Library, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

• Responsible for the day-to-day running of the Architecture Library, a branch of the main university library. Reported to the University Librarian.
• Provided architecture reference service, educate library users, and develop services and resources for the Architecture Library.
• Maintained an active liaison program with School of Architecture faculty, researchers, and staff.
• Developed the Architecture Library collections—books, journals, maps, indexes and abstracts, and remote and local electronic resources.
• Managed the Architecture Library Coordinator.
• Assisted in planning and designing new Architecture Library (1996-1997), and coordinated successful move into same (January 1998).
• Led Architecture Library through the successful accreditation of the School of Architecture by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (February 1997).
• Created a web-based slide image database and display tool in MS Access, ColdFusion, and JavaScript. Migrated architecture faculty from analog 35 mm slides to digital image presentations.
• Performed as Acting Architecture Librarian for twelve months (July 1996 to June 1997) before appointment was made permanent and position upgraded.

Technical Reference Librarian, September 1992 to June 1996
Robert W. Van Houten Library, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

• Provided comprehensive library service to students, faculty, researchers, and staff in civil engineering, engineering technology, materials science, physics, and transportation.
• Maintained active liaison program with university faculty, researchers, and staff in those five areas.
• Developed print, non-print, and electronic collections in those five areas.
• Performed general reference services in all subject areas.
• Established customized UnCover service—library provides access to the UnCover database and unmediated, fully-subsidized, direct-to-customer ordering of its faxed articles to NJIT students, faculty, and staff. Maintained, monitored, and evaluated our customers’ use behavior of that service.
• Served as one of two library staff on university-wide committee to select the NJIT library director (spring 1995).
• Chaired library committee to fill newly created Systems Librarian position (winter/spring 1996).
• Designed and managed the library's web pages.
• Led journal reclassification project (summer 1993). Developed an original algorithm to calculate the physical rearrangement of journals into the new classification scheme. Directed library staff through rearrangement process.

• MLS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, August 1992 (www.lis.fsu.edu)
• BS (communications), Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, May 1989 (www.ithaca.edu/rhp)

Robertson, Jim. How to conduct precedent research for a studio design project using the BArTLES acronym (Building, Architect, Type, Location, Era, Style). Chapter (pp. 146-151) in Library Instruction for Students in Design Disciplines: Scenarios, Exercises, Techniques. Jeanne Brown (ed.). ARLIS/NA (Occasional Papers series; no. 13). 2002. (available as PDF file)

Schwartz, Charles A. Restructuring serials management to generate new resources and services--with commentaries on restructurings at three institutions. College and research libraries, March 1998 (vol. 59, no. 2) pp.115-128. (Three accompanying commentaries written by Joel Rutstein, Colorado State University; Melvin G. DeSart and Rachel Miller, University of Kansas; and James Robertson, New Jersey Institute of Technology. (PDF file available)

Robertson, Jim. References for writers [annotated bibliography as an appendix] in Professional writing: tasks for undergraduate students in technological universities by Norbert Elliot and Robert Lynch. 1st edition: Needham Heights, MA; Ginn Press, 1993. 2nd edition: Needham Heights, MA; Simon and Schuster, 1997. (PDF of 2nd edition available).

Copyright, Fair Use, and the TEACH Act. Ethics and Legal Issues Symposium, College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ, Dec 3, 2003.

Using ColdFusion to Write Web-Based Applications and Reports Against the Voyager Tables. 2003 Endeavor User's Conference, Chicago, IL, Apr 24, 2003.

Advanced Digital Projects. 2002 VALE Users' Conference, Rutgers University, Jan 4, 2002.

Copyright and plagairism. Sponsored by the NJIT TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Center. Presented multiple times per year from 2000-onwards (tri-annual NJIT Teaching, Learning, and Technology Faculty Institutes; NJIT Distance Learning Committee, etc.). Newark, NJ. Online at www.library.njit.edu/publications/copyright/index.html

The internet for affirmative action officers . Sponsored by the New Jersey Affirmative Action Officers Roundtable. March 3, 1995. Newark, NJ.

Setting up a web/gopher server: a workshop. Sponsored by the New Jersey Intercampus Network, Library and Networking Committee. March 10,1995. New Brunswick, NJ.

Co-leader of the TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2000-present.
Coordinate with co-leaders from NJIT's Media Services and Academic Computing departments to offer workshops, information, and resources to faculty to aid them in appropriate use of technology in teaching at NJIT. (TLT website at www.njit.edu/tlt)

Webmaster, AASL (Association of Architecture School Librarians), 2000-present.
Maintain society's website at www.library.njit.edu/archlib/aasl; respond to queries; created cross-reference list to Architectural Review's Profiles series; created This Week in Architecture.

1996 Snowbird Leadership Institute, Snowbird, UT.
One of 32 nationally invited to attend the annual six-day institute which seeks to cultivate the leadership skills of early-career librarians who have shown leadership potential.

Board of Directors New York Metropolitan chapter of ASIS (American Society for Information Science), 1993-1997
Served in various capacities, including newsletter editor, webmaster, and on the programming committee.