Edward J. Valauskas
Encyclopedia
Edward J. Valauskas is an American librarian, educator, and Internet publisher.
Edward has taught at the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University
; International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
, Poland; Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
; UC Berkeley Extension; University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies; and, Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Since 1998, he has also worked at the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden
. He is currently Curator of Rare Books at the Library of the Garden. He is the curator of the traveling exhibit, Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery; see http://www.plantsinprint.org. The exhibit opened on 1 April 2004 at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. and has since appeared at the Chicago Botanic Garden
, Milton Hershey School
Art Museum in Hershey, Pa., and Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center
.
Edward uses a variety of rare herbals from the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden for lectures on Renaissance science as reflected in the Harry Potter series. These talks, entitled "Harry Potter's Herbology," have occurred at the Chicago Botanic Garden. and elsewhere.
Valauskas is also responsible for an openly accessible, book review magazine at the Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Entitled Current Books on Gardening & Botany, the journal has been published online since 1999. It specializes in reviews of new books in botany, horticulture, landscape gardening, and related fields.
Valauskas is also the author or editor of several books related to the Internet and computing, including The Internet for Teachers and School Media Specialists (with Monica Ertel; New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996), Internet Initiative: Libraries Providing Internet Services and How They Plan, Pay, and Manage (with Nancy R. John; Chicago: ALA Editions, 1995), Internet Troubleshooter: Help for the Logged-On and Lost (with Nancy R. John; Chicago: ALA Editions, 1994), and, Macintoshed Libraries (with Bill Vaccaro; Cupertino, Calif.: Apple Library Users Group, 1987-94, six editions). He has also written a large number of papers and articles for magazines and journals.
entitled The Boy Who Never Grew Up: Dinosaur Books & Realia from the Collection of Edward J. Valauskas in 1998. He has a considerable interest in paleontology and is attempting to visit many of the Lagerstätten in the world. He has climbed to Cambrian
Burgess Shale
exposures in British Columbia
, Canada; hunted fossils with his wife Nancy R. John in the Jurassic
limestone exposed in quarries around Solnhofen
and Eichstätt
, Germany; and, as a youngster collected concretions with fossils of Late Carboniferous
age at Pit 11 and the Mazon Creek area in Illinois (as well as in the Late Cretaceous
Coon Creek Formation in McNairy County, Tennessee and around the Silurian
reef exposed in the Thornton Quarry
in Thornton, Illinois
).
Career
Valauskas is an instructor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University of Illinois. He teaches a variety of graduate classes including Internet Publishing, Internet Fundamentals and Design, Information Policy, History of the Book, Early Books and Manuscripts, Descriptive Bibliography, Reference Sources in the Sciences, and Scholarly Communication in the Sciences. Students in Internet Publishing classes have been converting the School's print journal, World Libraries, into an openly accessible Internet-based journal at World Library.Edward has taught at the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University
Emporia State University
Emporia State University is a university in the city of Emporia in Lyon County, Kansas, just east of the Flint Hills.- History :...
; International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń is located in Toruń, Poland. It was named after Nicolaus Copernicus who was born in this town in 1473.-The beginnings of higher education in Toruń:...
, Poland; Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
; UC Berkeley Extension; University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies; and, Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Since 1998, he has also worked at the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden
Located at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois, USA, the Chicago Botanic Garden is a living plant museum situated on nine islands featuring 24 display gardens and surrounded by four natural habitats: McDonald Woods, Dixon Prairie, Skokie River Corridor, and Lakes and Shores. The Garden is open...
. He is currently Curator of Rare Books at the Library of the Garden. He is the curator of the traveling exhibit, Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery; see http://www.plantsinprint.org. The exhibit opened on 1 April 2004 at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. and has since appeared at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden
Located at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois, USA, the Chicago Botanic Garden is a living plant museum situated on nine islands featuring 24 display gardens and surrounded by four natural habitats: McDonald Woods, Dixon Prairie, Skokie River Corridor, and Lakes and Shores. The Garden is open...
, Milton Hershey School
Milton Hershey School
The Milton Hershey School is a private philanthropic boarding school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Originally named the Hershey Industrial School, the institution was founded and funded by chocolate industrialist Milton Snavely Hershey and his wife, Catherine Sweeney Hershey...
Art Museum in Hershey, Pa., and Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center
Atlanta History Center
The Atlanta History Center is a history museum located in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. The Museum was founded in 1926, and currently consists of 12 exhibits. There are also historic gardens and houses located on the grounds, including the Swan House and Tullie Smith Farm...
.
Edward uses a variety of rare herbals from the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden for lectures on Renaissance science as reflected in the Harry Potter series. These talks, entitled "Harry Potter's Herbology," have occurred at the Chicago Botanic Garden. and elsewhere.
Editing and publishing
Valauskas is the founder and current editor-in-chief of First MondayFirst Monday (journal)
First Monday is an open-access electronic peer-reviewed scientific journal for articles about the Internet.-Publication:First Monday is sponsored and hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago...
Valauskas is also responsible for an openly accessible, book review magazine at the Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Entitled Current Books on Gardening & Botany, the journal has been published online since 1999. It specializes in reviews of new books in botany, horticulture, landscape gardening, and related fields.
Valauskas is also the author or editor of several books related to the Internet and computing, including The Internet for Teachers and School Media Specialists (with Monica Ertel; New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996), Internet Initiative: Libraries Providing Internet Services and How They Plan, Pay, and Manage (with Nancy R. John; Chicago: ALA Editions, 1995), Internet Troubleshooter: Help for the Logged-On and Lost (with Nancy R. John; Chicago: ALA Editions, 1994), and, Macintoshed Libraries (with Bill Vaccaro; Cupertino, Calif.: Apple Library Users Group, 1987-94, six editions). He has also written a large number of papers and articles for magazines and journals.
Paleontological work
When he is not working on a computer, Valauskas collects books on paleontology, especially books written for young readers about dinosaurs. A portion of his collection formed an exhibit at the University of VirginiaUniversity of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
entitled The Boy Who Never Grew Up: Dinosaur Books & Realia from the Collection of Edward J. Valauskas in 1998. He has a considerable interest in paleontology and is attempting to visit many of the Lagerstätten in the world. He has climbed to Cambrian
Cambrian
The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, lasting from Mya ; it is succeeded by the Ordovician. Its subdivisions, and indeed its base, are somewhat in flux. The period was established by Adam Sedgwick, who named it after Cambria, the Latin name for Wales, where Britain's...
Burgess Shale
Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils...
exposures in British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada; hunted fossils with his wife Nancy R. John in the Jurassic
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...
limestone exposed in quarries around Solnhofen
Solnhofen
Solnhofen is a municipality in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in the region of Franconia in the Land of Bavaria in Germany. It lies within the Altmühl valley....
and Eichstätt
Eichstätt
Eichstätt is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the District of Eichstätt. It is located along the Altmühl River, at , and had a population of 13,078 in 2002. It is home to the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the lone Catholic university in Germany. The...
, Germany; and, as a youngster collected concretions with fossils of Late Carboniferous
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Mya . The name is derived from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing"...
age at Pit 11 and the Mazon Creek area in Illinois (as well as in the Late Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series...
Coon Creek Formation in McNairy County, Tennessee and around the Silurian
Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443.7 ± 1.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya . As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the...
reef exposed in the Thornton Quarry
Thornton Quarry
Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. Work at the quarry began in 1924 by Colonel Hodgkins, and since 1938 has been operated by the Material Service Corporation. The quarry is 1.5 miles long, 0.5 miles wide,...
in Thornton, Illinois
Thornton, Illinois
Thornton is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,582 at the 2000 census. Thornton is home to the Thornton Quarry, one of the largest quarries in the world.-Geography:Thornton is located at ....
).