Sharon Almquist is a librarian and web designer who specializes in information architecture, multimedia/web training and development. She was Head of the Media Library and Multimedia Development Lab at the University of North Texas from 1990 until July 2001.

In addition to teaching at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) Community Education, she teaches Perkins Grant courses at NKU's main campus in Highland Heights. She also teaches entirely on the web as adjunct faculty at the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas.

She holds two masters degrees (music history and library science) from the University of Buffalo, NY.

Some of Sharon's publications include:

• Opera Singers in Recital, Concert, and Feature Film: A Mediagraphy (Music Reference Collection, Number 73) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
• Opera Mediagraphy: Motion Pictures and Videorecordings (Music Reference Collection, Number 40) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
• “Music at the University of Buffalo, The Baird Years,” American Music (Spring 1992): 53-79.
• The St. James Press Guide to Biography. Two bio-bibliographic essays, “Jean Sibelius,” “Giacomo
  Puccini.”
• Numerous video reviews for the Video Rating Guide for Libraries, 1990-1995.
• Sound Recordings and the Library. Occasional papers, no. 179. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1987.

A few of the websites Sharon has worked on:

• Victor Oppenheim: Geologist and Mapper of a Continent, 1929-1949: A World Wide Web Tour
• Alvin M. Owsley, 1888-1967
• Enid Justin, Lady Bootmaker to the Nation
• A.B. Jolley, 1890-1979. Outstanding Contributor to the North Texas Agricultural Community

If you have any questions about this course or any of Sharon's other courses, you may reach her by email at: almquists@nku.edu.