Richard Stringer-Hye

Stevenson Science and Engineering Library
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
(615) 343-4395
richard.s.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu
orcid.org/0000-0002-3191-3908

Education

Master of Library and Information Studies, 1991.
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
University of Rhode Island

Bachelor of Arts, 1978.
Department of Geology
University of Colorado

Academic Library Positions

Librarian for STEM Research (2019 to present)
Stevenson Science and Engineering Library
Vanderbilt University

Adjunct Faculty (Fall Semester 2015)
Information Sources and Services in the Sciences (LIS 515)
School of Library and Information Studies
State University of New York at Buffalo

Librarian for Earth and Environmental Science and Civil and Environmental
Engineering (1999 – 2018)
Stevenson Science and Engineering Library
Vanderbilt University

Head of Access Services (1995-1999)
Stevenson Science and Engineering Library
Vanderbilt University

Science Reference Librarian (1991-1994)
Sterling C. Evans Library
Texas A&M University

Publications

Byrd, Sara, Gambill J., and Stringer-Hye, R. “Implementing an Open News and
Information System in the Vanderbilt University Libraries” Leading Change in Academic Libraries. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019

Stringer-Hye, R. & Stringer-Hye, S. (1995). Growing the collection: books and videos on yoga. Wilson Library Bulletin, 69(5), 38-41.

Miller, J., & Stringer-Hye, R. (1995). Improving access to engineering society publications. Reference Services Review, 23(2), 63-68.

Mongeau, D. & Stringer-Hye, R. Educational Resources Information Center, Resources in Education. (1991). Planning for a new map room at the University of Rhode Island Library (ED 338 241).

Contributions to Reference Works

Stringer-Hye, R. (2001). Willie James Dixon. In Scribner’s Encyclopedia of American Lives (Vol. 3). New York: Macmillan.

Stringer-Hye, R. (1997). Christopher Isherwood. In Scribner’s American Biography (Vol. 2). New York: Macmillan.

Stringer-Hye, R. (1996). Contributor to Mecklermedia Official Internet World World Wide Web Yellow Pages. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide.

Stringer-Hye, R. (1996). Contributor to the Bibliography of Gardening and Agriculture. In Collier’s Encyclopedia. pp. 180-186.

Stringer-Hye, R. (1994). Hermann Busch. In Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Nine 1971-1975. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Presentations

Pierre Bernard and the Clarkstown Country Club, presented at the Rockland County Historical Society, New City, NY., November 2004.

The Life and Library of Pierre Bernard and the Clarkstown Country Club, presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA., February 1995.

Grants and Research

The Life and Career of Sir Paul Dukes. May 1994. Funded by the Texas A&M Faculty Mini-Grant Committee.

Catalog of the Pierre A. Bernard Library and History of the Clarkstown Country Club of Nyack, New York. Funded by Sterling C. Evans Library Research Committee 1992.

Pierre A. Bernard and the Clarkstown Country Club: Origins, Influences and History. 1992. Funded by Texas A&M Faculty Mini-Grant Committee.

Library Instruction

General and course specific instruction to Earth and Environmental Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering undergraduates and graduate students. Instruction to first year students.

Professional Interests

My focus lies in the areas of the future of academic librarianship, research libraries, electronic resource management, GIS, collection development, digital libraries, open access publishing, data management, and library staff development.

Memberships

American Library Association
ACRL Science and Technology Section
Geoscience Information Society