Master of Arts, Anthropology, 1983
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Graduate Scholarship, Graduate teaching Assistant. Accepted into the PhD. program, but life circumstances prevented me from continuing.
Master of Library Science, 1978
San José State University, San José, CA, USA. California State Fellowship.
I completed a two-year degree in one year while also working 30 hours a week.
Note: Librarians are expected and trained to be in positions of responsibility, from running a library department (as department manager) to running the entire library (as chief executive). Budgeting, staffing, planning, and running the day-to-day operations of a business are all covered in the coursework. Because of this, a degree in library science is essentially a specialized MBA. While earning this degree, I served a six-month library internship at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital Libraries (medical and patient), which included overseeing the work of library volunteers and performing patient outreach.
Bachelor of Science, Sociology with an emphasis in Anthropology, 1977
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
I was two courses away from a second bachelor’s degree in English. I worked 16 to 20 hours a week during the school year and full time during the summer.
Honor student, Regent’s scholarship, first year. California State Scholarship all four years. Dean’s list (straight “A”s) numerous times.
Programming Languages, HTML, and CSS
BASIC, C, FORTRAN 77, Java, Pascal, HTML, XHTML. I am familiar with object-oriented and GUI programming concepts and with what XML is all about.
I’ve learned CSS, which isn’t a programming language but can be tricky.
I’ve also studied Classical Latin, Old English, Modern High German, Japanese (which I am still studying), and Spanish. Alas, without practice, not much remains.