Jane Keefer, who is now pretty much retired from her third career, as a librarian, was most recently employed as a reference librarian at Lewis & Clark College and Clackamas Community College in the Portland area. She also held science and chemistry librarian positions at West Chester Unversity, Johns Hopkins University and Eastern Michigan University. She continues her library work with on-call reference desk work at Portland Community College. She has a PhD in Chemistry and has worked as a research scientist in Chemical Physics.
Her second career, spanning more than 10 years in the Pacific Northwest, involved teaching, arranging, and performing folk music on a variety of instruments, including banjo, guitar, fiddle, and dulcimer. Now living in the SE Portland, Oregon area, she teaches music at Artichoke Music and at her home, as well as teaching folk music classes thru Portland Community College and the Portland Parks & Recreation Community Music Center. She was the President of the Portland Folklore Society in 2005 and, working as a volunteer, she has assisted the Oregon Folklife Program in organizing and documenting their field recording archives. In October 2002, she gave a brief presentation as part of a panel on folk music indexing at the American Folklore Society Meeting in Rochester, NY.
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