 He became Director of the School of Library and Information Studies (now the School of Information Management) and later was also Dean of the Faculty of Management.He was elected president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education for 1985-1986.He left in 1986 to become Editorial Vice President of Scarecrow Press, a leading reference book publisher in Metuchen, NJ, until he returned to Dalhousie in 1995.