Books

Book Chapters

Honors and Grants

Education and Languages

Vita

Dennis Kimmage
Librarian Emiritus, Division of Library and Information Services
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Email: dennis.kimmage@plattsburgh.edu

 

Special Web Page

    

Power Point Presentations

    

   

 

Journal Articles and Other Research

[1] “Russian Library Journals since the Fall of Communism.” Solanus: the International Journal for Russian and East European Bibliographic, Library, and Publishing Studies 12 (1998): 99-112. 

[2] “Russian and American Librarians Meet in Moscow.” With Cerise Oberman. College and Research Libraries News.  May 1993: 257-259.

[3] "User's of Moscow's Lenin Library Wrangle over Repairs: Structural and Philosophical." American Libraries May 1990: 400-401.

[4] "Soviet Librarians Demanding More Glasnost in the Stacks." American Libraries  October 1989: 849-850.

[5] "Glasnost in Soviet Libraries: Open Stacks in a Closed Society." Parts 1 and 2. American Libraries  July/August 1988 and September, 1988: 570-575, 652-657.

[6] "Scholar in USSR Faults 'Upside-Down Glasnost after Library Fire Destroying Half-Million Books." American Libraries May 1988: 332-333.

[7] Integration CAI into an Undergraduate Library Skills Course.  ERIC, 1988. ED 290492.

[8] Books for College Libraries, 3rd edition, 1988. Scholarly consultant for the Russian and East European literature sections.

[9] "Library Instruction and General Education: The Plattsburgh Experience." The Bookmark Fall 1987: 9-13.

[10] LRS101: Library Research Skills. Plattsburgh, N.Y.: Feinberg Library, 1985. Package of 7 CAI software programs I developed for college-level bibliographic instruction.

Books

[1] Occasional Papers. Russian-American Seminar on Critical Thinking and the Library. Papers from the seminar, Moscow, June 1-5, 1992. Edited with Cerise Oberman. Champaign, Illinois: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1995.

[2] Russian Libraries in Transition: An Anthology of Glasnost Literature. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1992.

[3] IFLA. Multicultural Communities: Guidelines for Library Service. The Hague: The Section, 1987 [translation into Russian for IFLA].

Book Chapters 

[1] Horbal, Bogdan and Walter Maksimovich. Lemko Folk Music on American Records [forthcoming]. An ethnographic study of American recordings made by Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants.  I translated and edited several chapters from Carpatho-Rusyn for an English language version.

 [2]  "On the History of Russian and Soviet Libraries." In Encyclopedia of Library History. New York: Garland, 1994. Edited by Wayne A. Wiegand and Donald G. Davis. Written in conjunction with Edward Kasinec and Richard H. Davis, Jr.

[3] "Amerikanskii kolledzh v pomoshch’ studentam [Library Instruction at an American College]." In Opyt Raboty Nauchnoi Biblioteki MGU, pp. 27-34.  Moscow State University Press, 1991. 

[4] "Commentaries on General Sessions I, II, and III." In Access to Library Resources through Technology and Preservation: Proceedings of the 1988 U.S. - U.S.S.R. Seminar, pp. 3, 11, 39-40, 55, 79-80, 97-98. Edited by Robert P. Doyle. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.

[5] "Case Study #2: State University of New York College at Plattsburgh," with Carla List. In Teaching Library Skills for Credit, by Mignon S. Adams and Jacquelyn M. Morris. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1985, pp.100-106.

 

Conferences and Presentations

[1] “How Students Use the Web: Implications for Libraries and Research.” Sabbatic Project (2001-2002). Presentation to the faculty available on a PowerPoint presentation titled “The Web, Students, Research, and Libraries.”

[2] Global Issues Update Forum, SUNY-Plattsburgh, September 27, 1997. East European Update. Presentation for faculty and students.

[3] Russian State Youth Library, Moscow, June 1996: The Impact of Technology on Reference Services.  Presentation to Russian academic and public school librarians

[4] New York Library Association Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, November, 1993 . The Rudy Weiss Lecture: Russian and American Librarianship: Renewing Contacts and Insights.

[5] American Library Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, June 1993 . Current Developments Affecting Slavic and East European Librarianship. Presentation to the Slavic and East European Section (ACRL).  

[6] Russian State Youth Library, Moscow, 1992. Russian-American Seminar on Critical Thinking and the Library, Moscow, June 2-4, 1992. Co-organizer with Cerise Oberman of a seminar bringing 13 American librarians together with scores of Russian counterparts.

[7] State University of New York Library Association Annual Conference, Utica, June, 1991 Humanism and Technology: the Soviet Experience. Conference presentation . 

[8] Northeastern New York Center for Economic Education. BOCES, Plattsburgh, N.Y., October, 1990. Economic and Political Change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Workshop presentation.

[9] Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Montreal, September, 1990 . Gorbachev and the New Russia: Still Relevant or Historical Relic? Presentation for Institute members and guests.

[10] The League of Women Voters, Plattsburgh, N.Y., May 1990 . The New Russia and the Democratic Tradition. Presentation. 

[11 ] Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, Plattsburgh, N.Y., February, 1990. Ethnic and Religious Tensions in the USSR: Implications for Christians, Moslems, and Jews. Presentation.

[12] American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Conference, Dickinson College, April 1989. New Directions in Soviet Libraries. Presentation and participant in roundtable on “Perestroika and the Library.”   

[13] Eastern NY ACRL Fall Conference, Plattsburgh, 1987.  The Service Aspect: Handling Diverse Collections fo the College and Research Library. Conference presentation. 

[14] Council of Head Librarians Annual Meeting, Rensselearville, NY, 1986. Articulating Bibliographic Instruction. Presentation to SUNY library directors.

[15] New York Library Association Annual Meeting, Monticello, NY, 1980. College Library Instruction for Credit: Two Model Programs. Conference presentation.

 

Honors and Grants

IREX Short Term Research Grant to the Russian Republic, 1996. Interviews and research on editorial practices of Russian library journals.

Chancellor's Aware for Excellence in Librarianship, 1993.

SUNY-Moscow State University Faculty Exchange Award, Fall 1989. Research on library instruction and reference servicesin the USSR. 

SUNY Professiona Development Grant, 1987. Research in the USSR on the Soviet library system.

NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 1965-1969, Cornell University.

B.A. with Honors, 1965. Harpur College, Binghamton University

 

Education and Languages

B.A., SUNY-Binghamton, 1965
     Major: Humanities and Russian Studies
M.A., Cornell University, 1968
     Russian Literature
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974
     Major: Russian Literature; Minor: Russian History
M.A., Syracuse University, 1976
     Library Science

Languages: Russian (and other East and West Slavic), 
      German, French, Italian, Latin