LISA BIER, Library Services

BOOKS:

American Indian and African American People, Communities, and Interactions:

An Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood/Praeger Press, 2004.

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

“Subjecting Black-Indian Interactions: A Discussion of Library Organizational Systems.” In Race, Roots, and Relations: Native and African Americans, edited by Terry Straus with Denene DeQuintal. Albatross Press, 2005.

“Library Advocacy.” In Getting Libraries the Credit They Deserve: A Festschrift Honoring Marvin Scilken, edited by Loriene Roy and Antony Cherian. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

Bier, Lisa. “Atomic Wives and the Secret Library at Los Alamos.” American Libraries 30 (December 1999): 54-6.

Bier, Lisa and Donald G. Davis, Jr. “The Cover.” (History of the Harwood Foundation Library of Taos, New Mexico) Libraries and Culture: A Journal of Library History 33 (1998): 446-450.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Frohlich, Cliff and Lisa Bier. Analysis of UTIG Publications and Citations. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report 178. 1998.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:

“John Wesley Powell” and “J.N.B. Hewitt.” In Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, edited by Vered Amit. New York: Routledge, 2003.

BOOK REVIEWS: 

Deacon Otis' Library. Otis Library, by Robert E. Jenkins. Libraries & Culture 38 (2003) 81-82.

Enrichment: A History of the Public Library in the United States in the Twentieth Century. Scarecrow Press, by Lowell Martin. Libraries & Culture: A Journal of Library History 35 (2000): 490-2.

Popular fiction reviews, Library Journal, 1998-2002.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

CSU Research Grant 2002, 2004

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Library services to underrepresented populations. Libraries, literacy and indigenous populations. Museums, libraries, archives, and intellectual repatriation. Bibliographic representations of ethnicity. Libraries and popular culture.