Qualifications

Selected Book & Periodical Indexes

• Bader, Philip (rev. by Catherine Reef). African-American Writers, revised edition. New York: Facts on File, 2011.
• Borda, Jennifer L. Women Labor Activists in the Movies: Nine Depictions of Workplace Organizers, 1954-2005. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011.
• Burgan, Michael. Empire of Ancient Rome, revised edition. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.
• Clouse, Doug. MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan: Typographic Tastemakers of the Late Nineteenth Century. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
• Demo, Anne Teresa and Bradford Vivian, editors. Rhetoric, Remembrance, and the Visual Form: Sighting Memory. Routledge Press, 2011.

• Erie County (PA) Council Meeting Minutes Index, 1998-2001. Indexed and encoded minutes in HTML for posting on a public service Web site I created and maintained from 1999-2002. Developed an extensive name and subject authority list and indexing procedures manual. The Web site and index are still viewable on the Internet Wayback Machine site at www.archive.org by searching for members.aol.com/dgolso. Choose the Jan. 26, 2002 link to access the site. The index is accessible from the home page. This was a self-directed service project and was not undertaken in partnership with or endorsed by the county.
• Gardella, Lorrie Greenhouse. The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Ages (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust Series). Syracuse University Press, 2011.

• Greene, John Robert. The George W. Bush Years. New York: Facts on File, 2011.
• Guild of Book Workers. Guild of Book Workers' Newsletter Index: 1976-2001.

• Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. Encyclopedia of Vampires and Werewolves, 2nd edition. New York: Checkmark Books, 2011.

• Levine, Joseph M. Re-enacting the Past: Essays on the Evolution of Modern English Historiography. Aldershot, Hamilton, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (Variorum Collected Studies Series, #788), 2004.

• Mandle, Jay R. Democracy, America, and the Age of Globalization. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• O'Brien, Donald C. Amos Doolittle: Engraver of the New Republic. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press and the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2008.

• Otfinoski, Steven. African Americans in the Performing Arts, revised edition. New York: Facts on File, 2010.
• Phillips, Kendall R. Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2008.
• Phillips, Kendall R. and G. Mitchell Reyes, editors. Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transitional Age. University of Alabama Press, 2011.

• Poulos, Christopher N. Accidental Ethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press,Inc. 2008.
• Ringer, Monica M. Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series). Syracuse University Press, 2011.
• Ronnenberg, Hermann W. Material Culture of Breweries (Guides to Historical Artifacts). Left Coast Press, 2011
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• Ruzicho, Andrew J., Louis A. Jacobs, Andrew J. Ruzicho II. Employment Practices Update (annual index). St. Paul, MN: Thomson Reuters/West, 2008, 2009.
• Seymour-Jorn, Caroline. Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women's Writing (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East series). Syracuse Univeristy Press, 2011.

• Shales, Ezra. Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rivergate Press, 2010.
• Skelton, Debra and Pamela Dell. Empire of Alexander the Great, revised edition. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.
• State University of New York. College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Eastwood Neighborhood Study, 2000. Syracuse, New York. (aftermarket index).

• Syracuse Peace Council. Peace Newsletter Index: 1936-1985. In two parts, 1936-1960 PDF (482 KB) & 1961-1985 PDF (970 KB).

• Syracuse University Library Associates. Library Connection Index: 1994-2004. Updated in 2005 and 2007.

• Syracuse University Library Associates. Syracuse University Library Associates Courier Index: 1958-2001.

• Vivian, Bradford. Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
• Walsh, Judith E. A Brief History of India, 2nd ed. New York: Checkmark Books, 2011.

• West, Barbara A. A Brief History of Australia. New York: Checkmark Books, 2010.
• Williams, Jean Kinney. Empire of Ancient Greece. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.

Education

• Master of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
• B.S. Economics, Elmira College (Elmira, NY).
• A.S. Business Administration, Monroe Community College (Rochester, NY).

Indexing & Related Training

• Basic Indexing and Applied Indexing. USDA Graduate School.
• Periodical & Database Indexing: online workshop from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (Boston, MA)
• Taxonomies & Controlled Vocabularies: online workshop from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (Boston, MA)
• Web Site Indexing for Freelance Indexers and HTML Indexing Tools. Online workshops from Hedden Information Management.
• "Indexing Minutes" (New York State Archives workshop)
• Information Architecture for Internet Services (IST 553, audited): School of Informationation Studies, Syracuse University.
• Metadata (IST 681, audited): School of Informationation Studies, Syracuse University.

Professional Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA)
• American Society for Indexing (ASI)
• Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)

Publications

Rev. of Your Best Year Yet!: Ten Questions for Making the Next Twelve Months Your Most Successful Ever by Jinny S. Ditzler. AIIP Connections. Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 2010): 24.

"Metadata: A Primer for Indexers" Key Words: Bulletin of the American Society for Indexing, Jan.-Mar. 2009: 18-20.

"Alternative Information Careers: Freelance Indexing." Info Career Trends Newsletter, vol. 9, no. 5 (Sept. 2008).

Rev. of The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Librarians by Stephanie Gerding. Key Words: Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, Apr.-Jun. 2008: 70.

"Volunteer Indexing Projects: Gaining Experience While Providing a Service in Your Community." Key Words: Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, Apr.-Jun. 2007: 46.

Conference reports. American Society of Indexers. June 15 to 17, 2006, Toronto, Ont. Key Words: Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers, Jul.-Sept. 2006: 91, 93, 96.

With Peter Verheyen and Carolyn Davis. "Storage of Architectural Materials at Syracuse University Library." The Book and Paper Group Annual, 22 (2003): 131.

"The Pennsylvania Population Company, 1792-1812: A Finding Aid to the Archival Holdings at the Erie Historical Museum." The Journal of Erie Studies, Spring 1997: 24-48.