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While in school, Mark worked as the Digital Project Department Lab Manager for the University of North Texas Willis Library. As a digital librarian, Mark feels strongly that this new technology will provide better access to government information and also help to preserve documents. At North Texas he has been involved in designing standards for digital projects, worked with other departments to develop new digital projects, and managed projects in the Digital Lab. Recently they have digitized their collection of World War II posters as well as documents pertaining to the Annexation of Texas. Mark also worked with the Portal to Texas History, a web portal to information about Texas.

It seems very fitting that Mark should win the Rozkuszka Award. He is the son of two long time documents librarians both who have not only served as Regional Documents Librarians at Oklahoma State University but who have also been very active participants in GODORT, the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer, and Regional Librarians Conferences. Mark has literally been brought up in "the business". He of all people knows the issues and problems confronting the free flow of government information and he is committed the preservation of born digital government information. By making government information available to the general public in an online format Mark advances the age-old concept of no fee access in the 21st Century. Mark takes us into the future with new technology like the Cyber Cemetery at the University of North Texas. He will help to lead the way for electronic methods to deal with multimedia files, dynamically generated websites, and content that itself is a database.

As one of colleagues has stated Mark's potential is boundless. He demonstrates a passion for his work and does research on technology or other issues on his own time. He has gained the respect of his colleagues at the University of North Texas for his innovative approach to his work.