Collection Responsibilities

• Communication - See New Books in Communication
• Judaic Studies - See New Books in Judaic Studies
• U.S. History - See New Books in U.S. History

Education

• B.A., History, University of California, Berkeley (1966)
• M.L.S., University of Calif., Los Angeles (1981)
• M.A., U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles (1982)

Publications

• British comment on the United States: a chronological bibliography, 1832-1899. Ada B. Nisbet, edited by Elliot Kanter, foreword by Asa Briggs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
• "Importance of the lay press in the transmission of medical knowledge to the scientific community" (with David Phillips, et al.). New England Journal of Medicine Vol. CCCXXV (October 17, 1991), pp. 1180-83.
• "Full text databases", Information Technology and Libraries, X (June, 1991), pp. 156-157.
• "Class, ethnicity and Socialist politics: St. Louis, 1876-1881," UCLA Historical Journal, III, (1982), pp. 36-60.
• "The FBI takes aim at AIM", Sevendays Magazine, April 11, 1977.
• "'Powers that Be': the NBC Documentary you never got to see," Ramparts Magazine, August, 1974, pp. 23, 57-60.

Other Professional Responsibilities

• UCSD Libraries Reference Shelf (founder and team leader)
• University of California Libraries Consortium for US and UK History and Women's Studies (UCSD representative)
• American Library Association
• Association of College and Research Libraries / Electronic Resources in Communication Committee
• Association of Jewish Libraries
• Reference and User Services Association