E-Science, social media, web application development, mobile technology, and technology planning in academic health sciences library environment.

• Master of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, 1999
• Bachelor of Science History, Lander University, 1995
• Medical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellow - Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Certificate, Fall Course, 2005.
• Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians - Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by ACRL, Summer 2007. NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellow, 2009 – 2010

• Ragon, Bart. “Designing for the Mobile Web” Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 6 (4): 355–36, 2009.
• Zerull, LM, Near, Kelly, Ragon, B, Farrell, SP. “Connecting congregations: technology resources influence parish nurse practice” Comput Inform Nurs. 27 (3): 143-50, May-June 2009.
• Ellero, Nadine, Looney, Ryan, Ragon, Bart. "P.O.D. Principles: Producing, Organizing, and Distributing Podcasts in Health Sciences Libraries and Education" Medical Librarian 2.0: Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Reference Services. Ed. M. Sandra Wood. Haworth Press, Inc. 2007. 69-90.
• Ragon, Bart. “Podcasting at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library”. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 26 (1): 17-26, December 2006.
• Ragon, Bart. “Castles Made of Sand: Building Sustainable Collections Using XML”.  Computers in Libraries, 23 (6):10-12, 63-64, June 2003.
• Lord, Jonathan, Ragon, Bart. “Working together to develop electronic collections”.  Computers in Libraries, 21 (5): 40-44, May 2001.

Presentations

• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2008 Panel – “Top Technical Trends III: Technology Fusion”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2008 Poster – “Using Personas as a Tool for Developing and Refining Library Services”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2008 Poster – “The BioConnector: A University-wide Bioinformatics Portal”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2008 Plenary Panel – “Web 2.0 Tools for Librarians: Description, Demonstration, Discussion, and Debate”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2008 Panel – “Top Technology Trends:  Bridge Today, Gone Tomorrow”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2008 Poster – “Veggies 2.0 (Because It’s Good for You)”
• Medical Library Association Educational Webcast, March 5, 2008 - Presenter "Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web"
• Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Regional Meeting 2007 Invited Speaker –“Technology Symposium”
• Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Regional Meeting 2007 Paper – “When a Blog Is Not a Blog”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2007 – Presenter “Top Technology Trends: Where Is the Revolution Leading Us Next?”
• Medical Library Association Educational Webcast, November 8, 2006 - Presenter "Moving at the Speed of Byte: Emerging Technologies for Information Management"
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2006 Poster – Presenter “Podcasting with Purpose: Transforming a New Technology into a Useful Service for Library Patrons”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2006 Poster – Co-Presenter “Designing the Phoenix: The Rebirth of a Course Registration Process into a Curriculum Management System”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2005 Poster – Co-Presenter “Everyday Heroes: The Papers of James Carmichael and His Son Edward Carmichael of Fredericksburg Virginia”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2004 Paper – Co-Presenter “Totally Modular Dude! Empowered Educational Technology”
• Mid-Atlantic Region Archives Conference 2004 – Moderator “Digital Collections: The Beginning”
• Web-Wise Conference 2003 – Demonstrator “Rediscovering Yellow Fever:  The Philip S. Hench Yellow Fever Collection Digitization Project”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2003 Poster– Co-Presenter “Launching a Flagship Library: In an Ocean of Information, Making Sure Your Library Stands Out”
• Medical Library Association National Meeting 2002 Paper– Presenter “Rediscovering Yellow Fever:  The Philip S. Hench Yellow Fever Collection Digitization Project” 
• EdTech 2000 – Co-Presenter “Online Mini-Med School”