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**Instructor: Floyd Pentlin**
 * = ** LIS 5270 ORGANIZING INFORMATION **
 * 3 Credit Hours – SPRING 2018 **
 * Department of Educational Leadership & Human Development **
 * University of Central Missouri **
 * Warrensburg, MO **

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Floyd C. Pentlin
 * Instructor Information **

I am a retired school librarian from the Lee’s Summit School District. I taught at Lee’s Summit High School for 16 years and at Lee’s Summit North for 10 years. I was married to Susan for 42 years and since she has passed I have the maintenance of the Tibetan Terrier (Siddhartha!).

I was drawn to library media services in a roundabout manner. My first interest was movies and film history but realizing that I couldn’t make a living out of that I tied librarianship to my interest in technology. As a librarian, I had a most enviable position in the Lee’s Summit district. Budgets were plentiful and administrative support was strong and across the district. Because the district was supportive of professional involvement I was active in GKCASL, MASL, and ALA and AASL.

I was president of GKCASL and MASL as well as working on the board of both groups during my entire library career. I was elected treasurer of AASL which was a three-year term at the national level. I have presented workshops at conferences at the local, state, and national level. I taught for CMSU for a number of years and taught four years as a full-time instructor at UCM. Professionally, I belong to MASL, ALA, AASL, YALSA, and ELMS.

Besides the support of my school district, another reason I become so involved in the library profession was that of my mentor at UCM, Aileen Helmick, was such a towering figure in school libraries at the state and national level. All of her acolytes swam in her wake and encouraged us all to give back to the profession that we loved so much. Aileen and I had the good fortune to win the Eli M. Oboler Award presented by ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Roundtable because of our publication dealing with censorship.

ABOUT.ME PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY: [|**https://about.me/fpentlin**]

**Office Hours**: By appointment and I’m usually at my computer 1:00-4:00 pm weekdays. You may call or Skype me for asynchronous conversation.

Posted in PENTLIN INFO and the syllabus on Blackboard.
 * Cell Phone **

Office: fpentlin@ucmo.edu (will return messages within 24 hours) – The best way to contact me. I read my e-mail regularly.
 * E-mail **

Home: fpentlin@icloud.com

fcpen2008
 * Skype **

If you log on to Skype and see that I am also online (a green check mark by my name) by all means voice or text mail me immediately.


 * Assignment Questions **

If you have questions be sure to post them to the FAQ Forum in the DISCUSSION BOARD. Someone in the class may know the answer before I can respond.

There are is one textbook for this class
 * Text and Related Material **
 * =**Weihs, Jean, and Sheila S. Intner. //Beginning Cataloging.// 2nd ed., Santa Barbara, Libraries Unlimited, 2017.**=