Stephen Sottong

Library Responsibilities

Educational Background

Publications

Professional Presentations

HTML & CSS Tutorials

John F. Kennedy Memorial Library
Stephen Sottong
Associate Librarian

Retiring on September 26, 2003


FORMER LIBRARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Information Technology Team Meeting Coordinator
  • Member of the User Interface Task Force (Web page design, specializing in JavaScript)
  • Leader of the UIAS Task Force
  • Member of the Library Automation Task Force providing support for Library workstations.
Member of the User Services Team
  • Reference Librarian
  • Library subject specialist and School Services Liaison for the College of Engineering, Computer Science & Technology including:
    • Civil Engineering
    • Electrical & Computer Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Technology
    • Computer Science
  • Library subject specialist and School Services Liaison for Psychology
  • Selector for Religion
  • Member of the School Services & Instruction Task Force

Other Responsibilities:
  • Member, state-wide User Services Task Force for the UIAS project
  • Member of the campus Honors Convocation and Commencement Committee
  • Chair of the Library Elections Committee
  • Member of the Library Appointments Committee

PUBLICATIONS

Stephen P. Sottong. "Database-driven web Pages using only JavaScript: Active Client Pages" IN Content and Workflow Mnangement for Library Web Sites, Holly Yu Ed., Information Science Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania. 2005.

Stephen P. Sottong. "ISSUE 13. Will Screens Replace Pages?" IN TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society, Thomas A. Easton Ed., Fifth Ed., McGraw-Hill Dushkin, New York. 2002. http://www.dushkin.com/text-data/catalog/0072484268.mhtml?SECTION=TOC - toc

Stephen P. Sottong. “E-Book Technology: Waiting for the ‘False Pretender’.” Information Technology & Libraries, 20(2):72-80, June 2001. Available at: http://www.lita.org/ital/ital2002.html#anchor168301

Stephen P. Sottong, Christine Lind Hage. “Conference Call: Should Libraries Jump on the E-Book Bandwagon?” American Libraries, 31(7):61-65, August, 2000. Available from EBSCOHost and Dow Jones Online.

Joy Thomas, Stephen P. Sottong. “Gerald Locklin: an Index to His Work in Little Poetry Magazines, 1960-2000.”Electronic edition. http://www.csulb.edu/library/Locklin/. July, 2000.

Stephen P. Sottong.“Don’t Power Up That E-Book Yet.”American Libraries, 30(5):50-53, May, 1999. Available from EBSCOHost and Dow Jones Online.

Stephen P. Sottong.“Biographies of Successful Engineers.”Success 101, (6):2, Spring 1999. Available at: http://www.discovery-press.com/success101/1999spring.htm

Stephen P. Sottong.“Biographies of Successful Engineers.”Success 101, (5):5, Spring 1998. Available at: http://www.discovery-press.com/success101/1998spring.htm#Biographies of Successful Engineers

Stephen P. Sottong.“Biographies of Successful Engineers.”Success 101, (4):8, Fall 1997. Available at: http://www.discovery-press.com/success101/1997fall.htm

Stephen P. Sottong.   "Designing Custom Computer Applications for Reference" IN The Changing Face of Reference, Dena Hutto and Lynne Stuart, Eds.  1996, Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press. 147-158.

Joy Thomas and Stephen P. Sottong."Automating Your Ready-reference File."RSR: Reference Services Review, 22(1):89-93, Spring 1994.

Stephen P. Sottong."A Menu-driven Ready Reference File Using dBase III+ or dBase IV." Library Software Review 12(3):36-41, Fall 1993. Available from EBSCOHost.

Steven Lazar and Stephen Sottong "RUST, the Remote User SeT," Proceedings of the 46th AnnualMeeting,Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 26-28, 1990. Institute of Navigation: Washington DC, Pages 139-145.


PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

(June 15, 2002) American Library Association Annual Conference. Presentation "Keeping Up Appearances: How We Reinvented Our Library Web Site for the Twenty First Century."

(May 18, 2002) American Society of Indexers Annual Conference. Presentation "Why You Don't Want to Index E-Books."

(November 6, 2001) Internet Librarian Conference. "Rebuilding a Library Web Site for the 21st Century."

(November 5, 2001) California Library Association 103rd Annual Conference. "Bringing your Library Web Site into the 21st Century: a Roadmap for Change."

(May 15, 2001) Librarians Association Program Committee, University of California, Riverside. “E-Books: Two Views.”

(October 6, 2000) CARL 2000 Conference, Long Beach, California. Presentation “Designing the Library Web: Hands-on HTML.”

(October 6, 2000) CARL 2000 Conference, Long Beach, California.Presentation “E-Book Technology: Waiting for the ‘False Pretender’.”

(November 16, 1998) California Library Association 100th Annual Conference, Oakland, California Presentation “The Limitations of Electronic Publishing.”

(April 22, 1998) Technology: Global Window of the Future, held at California State University, Long Beach. Presentation “The Limitations of Electronic Publishing.” Also published in Conference Proceedings on: Technology: Global Window of the Future, Dr. Skyne Uku-Wertimer, Ed. 1998, Long Beach, California: Campus Copy Center.

(December 5, 1997) Difficult Decisions: Full-text Web Resources, the Librarian’s Perspective. CARLDIG South Meeting, Fullerton. Presentation “IDEAL, Academic Press on the Web.”

(April 25, 1997) The Universe at Your Fingertips, held at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Presentation "Second Thoughts about Web Publishing." http://www.library.ucsb.edu/universe/sottong.html


EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

M.L.S., 1993
San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science

B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1985
Purdue University


HTML TUTORIAL

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