Before coming to Arizona, she was with the Alexandria Digital Library ADEPT Project, where she worked with the development of a metadata standard for learning objects in Geography. She has worked in special collections, technical, and public service areas in academic libraries. She currently teaches courses in Knowledge Structures and Information Seeking Behaviors, and has taught others such as Systems Analysis, Cataloging and Classification at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California at Los Angeles.