Linda worked with the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1996 to January 2005. This federally-funded digital library project focused on georeferenced digital library research, develoment, and implementation. Her projects included design and implementation of gazetteers and gazetteer services, the integration of knowledge organization systems into digital library architectures, metadata design, and thesaurus development. See http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/.
Linda has a Ph.D. in library science from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.L.S. from the University of Michigan. Her career, prior to the ADL Project, focused on the direction and development of library/information services and systems and related research, including consulting, federal government contracting, abstracting and indexing, and public library services for the business and scientific communities. She has worked as a contractor through Information International Associates of Oak Ridge Tennessee with the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program and their RECON system. She has managed a corporate library supporting petroleum exploration and production and directed scientific and technical abstracting and indexing for Petroleum Abstracts at The University of Tulsa. Prior to this, she headed the Business and Technology Department of the Tulsa City-County Library.
She hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma where she attended Barnard Elementary School, Wilson Junior High School, and Central High School. At Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, she followed a pre-med path that led to a B.A. with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. This was followed by marriage and children: three sons named Alec Michael (July 26, 1959), Russell Andrew (December 31, 1960), and Gregory Bruce (June 27, 1962). Russell is now a physician and is a member of the emergency room medical staff of theSan Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico. Greg, who has a completed all but the dissertation (ABD) in computer science and earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Geography Information Systems, is living in Boulder, Colorado, where he pursues his interests in bouldering and rock climbing and other outdoor activities. The sad note is that Alec didn't make it to his adult life. In 1979, after finishing two years at Stanford, he contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and died within the week he got sick. He is very much missed.