Susan Jane Heron

Susan Jane Heron, MLS, is the Associate Director of the Collection Analysis and Technical Services Department at the University of South Florida Libraries (USF). Previously, Ms. Heron was Head of Technical Services at the University of San Diego, Head of Cataloging at San Diego State University, Project Coordinator for Database Conversion at Temple University, and a Library Liaison with the Research Libraries Group. Ms. Heron was a member of the USF Virtual Library Implementation Team as well as the Metadata, Digitization, Thesis and Dissertation, and Electronic Reserve Teams. Currently, Ms. Heron is on the State University System Technical Services Policy Committee, which is implementing ALEPH v.18 and examining metadata issues for geographic data and electronic resources.

Publications

Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries
John Abresch, Ardis Hanson, Susan Jane Heron, Peter J. Reehling. © 2008. 318 pages.
With the onslaught of emergent technology in academia, libraries are privy to many innovative techniques to recognize and classify geospatial data—above and beyond the...