He was the very best library science teacher that I had in the program at USF SLIS not only because he was a great mentor, and a kind person, but he also was a full-time cataloger. There is an abyss between those educators who keep up with the theoretical trends merely from the vantage points of their ivory towers and those who keep up with the trends from where the rubber meets the road in the real world and are actually doing the work. Dr. Chrisman was one of the real world catalogers who taught us from the trenches, and he passed on his passion for cataloging. He brought in real world cataloging problems. Take time to be with the most important people in your life.
Life's too short.
Even though he has been gone for nearly a decade, there is rarely a workday that goes by that I do not think of Dr. Chrisman. I owe much of my passion for this great art of cataloging to Dr. Chrisman. You can choose to bring forth in yourself qualities of compassion, patience, kindness, humility, and peace through what you practice.