Kate Cleland-Sipfle

Title: Cataloging Coordinator

Faculty Rank: Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

  • As Cataloging Coordinator - responsible for effectiveness as a librarian in areas including original cataloging, orienting others to cataloging software and technology, overseeing metadata creation for digital collections as developed and representing SOU Hannon Library in the regional and national Technical Services/Cataloging community.
  • Subject Areas for Collection Development and Information Literacy/Bibliographic Instruction: Foreign languages and literatures (French, Spanish), History, Geography

Contact Information:

Committees and Teams:

Oregon Library Association

Technical Services Round Table - Secretary (2007- )

The group initiates and arranges for technical services programs and sessions for the annual Oregon Library Association conference,and co-sponsors sessions of mutual interest with by other OLA divisions and task forces.

ORBIS-CASCADE Alliance

Summit Cataloging Committee (2004-2008)

Catalog Liaison for SOU (2004-2008 )

Summit Cataloging Committee Steering Team (2006-2008)

Summit Catalog Committee Short Term Summit Search Interface Working Group (2006-2007)

SOU Campus Committees

  • University Studies Committee - Winter-Spring 2006 as sabbatical replacement for Library member
  • Financial Aids and Awards - substitute 2004-05, and three year term 2005-2008
  • Faculty Development Committee - Winter-Spring 2006 as substitute for Library Member; and one-year replacement term 2008-

Lenn and Dixie Hannon Library:

  • Library Accreditation Task Force 2005-2006
  • Personnel Committee (three year term) 2005-2008
  • Collection Development Team 2006-
  • Technical Services, Cataloging, Special Collections groups 2004-
  • Southern Oregon Digitial Archives (SODA) Work Group 2003-
  • Reference and Instruction Team 2004-2006

Presentations:

Selected Book Reviews for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries:

  • Ethnic studies research : approaches and perspectives (Altamira, 2008) - 46 (3):493
  • Guide to documentary sources for Andean studies, 1530–1900 (University of Oklahoma, 2008) - 46 (2):277-288
  • The Tupac Amaru and Catarista rebellions : an anthology of sources (Hackett, 2008) - 46 (1): 172
  • United States West Coast : an environmental history (ABC-Clio, 2007). 45 (7):1144
  • Oregon Explorer Internet Resource. 45 (5):802
  • Milestones in Archaeology (ABC-CLIO,2007). 45 (4):615
  • Anthropoogy Tutorials Internet Resource. 45 (2):258
  • Demography in Archaeology (Cambridge, 2006). 44 (8):
  • EnviroLink Internet Resource. 44 (6):956.
  • Lynching in America: A History in Documents (NYU, 2006). 43 (10):1808.
  • Handbook of Inca Mythology (ABC-CLIO, 2004). 42 (10): 1806.
  • The Ethnopolitical Encyclopedia of Europe (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004). 42 (6):1002-1003.
  • Latin America and the Caribbean : A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues (Series: Worlds Environments; ABC-CLIO, 2004). 42 (2):317.
  • The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). 41 (4):692.
  • Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture (Sage Publications, 2003). 40 (10):1726.
  • The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (Columbia University Press. 2002). 40 (4):611.
  • Maya civilization 1996-2000: a bibliographic guide (Labyrinthos, 2002). 39 (11-12):1944.

Articles:

Cleland, Kathryn M. and Izumi Shimada

  • 1998 Paleteada Pottery and Potters: An Ancient Domestic Industry and Sub-Culture. In collected volume: Andean Ceramics: Technology, Organization and Approaches, edited by Izumi Shimada. p. 111-150. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Supp. to V. 15.
  • 1994 Cerámios Paleteados: Tecnología, Esfera de Producción y Sub-cultura en el Perú Antiguo. In Tecnología y Organización de la Producción de Cerámica Prehispánica en los Andes, edited by Izumi Shimada, p. 321-348. Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, Lima.
  • 1992 Sicán Bottles: Marking Time in the Peruvian Bronze Age: A Five-part Typology and Seriation. Andean Past 3: 193-235; full text version pending at Andean Past web site.

Cleland, Kathryn M.

  • 1991 Biographies: Larco Hoyle, Rafael; Mejía Xesspe, José Toríbio; Tello, J. C. Valcárcel, L.G. In International Dictionary of Anthropologists, edited by Christopher Winters, p. 382-3; 472-3; 686-7, and 719-20. Garland Publications, New York.

Education:

Community Service and Activities (non-university)

  • Environmental Action, Rogue Valley UU Fellowship, (chair 2000-2004; member 1999- )
  • Editor, Rogue Unitarian newsletter (1999-2001)
  • Leadership Council, RVUUF (1999-2002)
  • Political Committee, Rogue Group Sierra Club (2002-2003)
  • Siskiyou Singers (member 1999 - ; Board member 2008 - )
  • Membership Committee, Rogue Valley Audubon (2007 - )

Interests:

  • Hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing
  • Birdwatching
  • Environmental protection volunteer work; advocacy
  • Choral singing and classical music
  • Reading, indie films, journaling

Selected Favorite Places:

 

Beargrass, Red Mountain, Oregon, July 2004 (near Mt. Ashland)