Dr. Ronnie W. Faulkner

Director of Library Services
Associate Professor of History

Carrie Rich Library 110 PO Box 98, Buies Creek, NC 27506
Office Telephone: (910) 893-1460
Email: rwfaulkner@campbell.edu

"The less legislation the better." Sen. Nathaniel Macon (1758-1837)

EDUCATION

      Ph.D., History, University of South Carolina, 1983
      MSLS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978
      MA, History, East Carolina University, 1976
      BS, History, Campbell College, 1974, graduated summa cum laude

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

At Campbell University (NC):
      Director of Library Services & Associate Professor of History, 1996-present
      Director of Library Services & Assistant Professor of History, 1992-1996
      Technical Services Librarian & Assistant Professor of History, 1989-1993

At Glenville (WV) State College:
Library Director & Assistant Professor of Education, 1984-1989

At Tennessee Technological University:
Coordinator of Public Services & Assistant Prof. of Library Science, 1981-1984
Assistant Reference Librarian & Instructor of Library Science, 1979-1981

PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Faulkner has written over 50 articles and book chapters for such periodicals as The Historian, North Carolina Historical Review, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Polity, Teaching Political Science, Library Hi Tech News, Library Software Review, Library Acquisitions, Tennessee Librarian, West Virginia Libraries, Southeastern Librarian, the Raleigh News & Observer, and Confederate Veteran. He also wrote entries for the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (UNC Press, 1994-96), American Mass-Market Magazines (Greenwood Press, 1990), The Smaller Academic Library: A Management Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1988), The Heritage of Harnett County (Delmar Printing, 1993), and The Heritage of Coats, North Carolina (Coats Centennial Book Committee, 2005). He authored a book entitled Jesse Helms and the Legacy of Nathaniel Macon (Helms Center, 1998) and wrote over 25 entries for the Encyclopedia of North Carolina (UNC Press, 2006). He is a Faculty Affiliate of the John Locke Foundation (Raleigh, NC). He is a member of numerous organizations, including the NC Library Association, the Southeastern Library Association, the N.C. Literary & Historical Association, the Association of N.C. Historians, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, and the Southern Historical Association, to name a few. Dr. Faulkner is a successful grant writer and fundraiser for libraries, having raised over $700,000 in funded grants and endowments since 1993. He currently serves on the Library Services and Technology Act Advisory Committee for the State Library of North Carolina, which reviews applications and makes recommendations for federal grants totaling over $3 million a year, and was immediate past chairman (2005-07) of the Rotary District 7710 Scholarship Committee, which selects Ambassadorial Scholars for study abroad.

LINKS TO FAULKNER-RELATED ITEMS:

The Latest on Edgar Rice Burroughs & Race(5/08) The Origin of the Camel Mascot

Entries for North Carolina History Project The Heritage of Coats, N. C. (2005)

Jesse Helms & the Legacy of Nathaniel Macon Taking John C. Calhoun to the United Nations

History of the North Carolina Republican Party Faulkner Photos & Sketches-Under construction

On Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Novels Newsline (FOL Newsletter--Latest Issue)

The Meaning of "No" Faulkner Resumé

COURSES TAUGHT

History 331: History of North Carolina
History 332: North Carolina: Its Geography & People

Course Info: NC History students check this out. Possible great resources for your

research: W. S. Powell, ed., The Encyclopedia of North Carolina

(Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2006) in Library: REF F 254 .E54 2006