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Virgil A.
Dedas |
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Professor / Coordinator, Tech Services
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300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251 |
| Phone:
(509) 777-4480 |
Fax:
(509) 777-3221 |
| Office Location:
Harriet Cheney Cowles Library 124 |
| E-mail:
vdedas@whitworth.edu |
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Virgil A. Dedas is a member of Whitworth's library faculty, where he is coordinator of technical services and automation. His doctoral work was in the field of Germanic languages and literature, and he has taught in a number of different fields and four departments at Whitworth. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in modern languages from Wofford College, in 1969, and his master of arts degree in German at the University of North Carolina, in 1971. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1974, in the fields of classical and medieval languages and literatures. In 1976 he earned a doctorate at the University of Kentucky, followed by a second master of arts degree in library science in 1978. Virgil came to Whitworth in the fall of 1979. His academic interests are in the areas of linguistics, and Classical and Germanic languages. As coordinator of technical services and automation at Whitworth, Virgil's responsibilities include supervision of the acquisition, cataloging and processing of all materials in Whitworth's library, as well as maintenance of software procedures and equipment relating to Whitworth's two automated systems, OCLC and Voyager. He also works in the public-services area as a reference librarian. |
Education: |
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
M.A. University of North Carolina
B.A. Wofford College |
Year Joined Whitworth
Faculty:
1979 |
Areas of Specialization / Expertise: |
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Writing research papers; German; medieval history; Latin; librarianship - acquisition, receipt, cataloging and classification of library materials |
Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors: |
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Presented "Voyager in Technical Services: Keep it Simple" at the National Enduser Conference in Chicago, Ill. (2007). Various papers presented and book reviews, as well as a number of local and regional offices held over the past 20 years. |
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