Gail McMillan HTML Resume

Gail McMillan

Associate Professor, University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Director, Scholarly Communications Project
Head, Special Collections Department

Résumé Table of Contents

Education

Employment History

Publications Related to Librarianship

Presentations on the World Wide Web/Internet

Invited Presentations

Grants, Consultant Services, Panels, and other Service Activities

Grants and Contracts

Consulting

Editorial Boards

Panels, Poster Sessions, Workshops, Demonstrations, and more

Recent Participation in National Professional Organizations

Memberships in National Professional Organizations

Education

MLS University of Maryland, College Park, 1981
emphasis: rare books, manuscripts, archives

MA University of Maryland, College Park, 1981
emphasis: early American history

BA University of California, Riverside, 1972
major: American history; minor: education

Employment History University Libraries
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

July 1995 to date Head
Special Collections Department Associate Professor

Jan. 1994 to date Director
Scholarly Communications Project Associate Professor

Oct. 1991-Aug. 1994 Team Leader
Serials Cataloging/Maintenance
Cataloging Department Assistant Professor, 1986-1993; promoted to Associate Professor, spring 1993

Dec. 1986-Sept. 1991: Team Leader
Online Maintenance
Bibliographic Services Department Assistant Professor

July 1985-Dec. 1986 Acting Head
Bibliographic Services Department Instructor promoted to Assistant Professor, spring 1986

Jan. 1983-July 1985 Coordinator
Serials Retrospective Conversion Project
Serials Department Instructor

Aug.-Dec. 1982 Assistant Serials Cataloger
Serials Department Instructor

Jan.-July 1982 Library Clerk
Special Collections Division
Employment History: Other

Jan.-Dec. 1981 Assistant Archivist, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Oct. 1979-Jan. 1981 Graduate Student Assistant, Special Collections Department, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park

Aug. 1977-July 1979 Library Administrative Assistant, Special Collections Division, University of Oregon Library, Eugene

Employment History	University Libraries Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
July 1995 to date	Head Special Collections Department	Associate Professor
Jan. 1994 to date	Director Scholarly Communications Project	Associate Professor
Oct. 1991-Aug. 1994	Team Leader Serials Cataloging/Maintenance Cataloging Department	Assistant Professor, 1986-1993;	promoted to Associate Professor, spring 1993
Dec. 1986-Sept. 1991:	Team Leader Online Maintenance Bibliographic Services Department	Assistant Professor
July 1985-Dec. 1986	Acting Head Bibliographic Services Department	Instructor	promoted to Assistant Professor, spring 1986
Jan. 1983-July 1985	Coordinator Serials Retrospective Conversion Project Serials Department	Instructor
Aug.-Dec. 1982	Assistant Serials Cataloger Serials Department	Instructor
Jan.-July 1982	Library Clerk Special Collections Division
Employment History: Other
Jan.-Dec. 1981	Assistant Archivist, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Oct. 1979-Jan. 1981	Graduate Student Assistant, Special Collections Department, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park
Aug. 1977-July 1979	Library Administrative Assistant, Special Collections Division, University of Oregon Library, Eugene

Publications Related to Librarianship: "Libraries Address the Challenges of Asynchronous Learning," Journal of Asynchronous Learning, Vol. 2, issue 1, March 1998; with Joanne Eustis.; "Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Merging Perspectives," invited chapter in Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control, Pattie, Ling-yuh W. (Miko), and Bonnie Jean Cox, eds. New York: Haworth, 1997 (105-125). [Simultaneously published in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 22(3/4)]; "A New Service from Libraries: Electronic Publishing," in Continuity & Transformation: The Promise of Confluence: Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Richard AmRhein, ed. Chicago: ACRL, 1995; p. 257-266). [Based on a paper presented for "Technology and the Service-Centered Library," March 30, 1995, Pittsburgh]; "Scholarly Communications Project: Publishers and Libraries," in Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper: Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks, Washington, D.C.: ARL, 1995; p. 135-145. (Based on a paper presented for "In the Scholarly Pipeline" at the fourth symposium of the ARL/AAUP, Nov. 6, 1994, Washington, D.C.); Report of the Scholarly Communications Task Force, principal author, with James Powell, Maggie Zarnoski, and Paul Metz. Blacksburg, Va.: University Libraries, May 1994 [updated June 24, 1994] http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/reports/task-force.html; "Cataloging CD-ROMs: Serials? Computer Files? Serials Files? Computerials?" New Scholarship: New Serials. Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. New York: Haworth, 1994; p. 87-101; and simultaneously in The Serials Librarian, 24 no.3/4 (1994). (Based on paper presented at a plenary session of the annual meeting, June 1993, Brown University); New Scholarship: New Serials. Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. New York: Haworth, 1994. Simultaneously published in The Serials Librarian, 24 no.3/4 (1994). Co-edited with Marilyn Norstedt andp repared electronic version for NASIGNet.; Coded Holdings Manual: Applications of the USMARC Format for Holdings and Locations at University Libraries, 3rd ed. Blacksburg, Va.: University Libraries, 1993. [1st ed. 1989, 2nd ed. 1991]; "Electronic Journals: Access through Libraries," in The Virtual Library: Visions and Realities. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1993; p. 111-129. (rewritten from an invited presentation to the Computers in Libraries Conference, March 7, 1992, Washington, D.C.); "Technical Processing of Electronic Journals," Library Resources and Technical Services, 36, no. 4 (Oct. 1992):470-477; "Retrospective Conversion of Serials: Implementing the MARC Holdings Format" Technical Services Quarterly, 9, no. 3 (Oct. 1992):41-54 (rewritten from a June 1991 ALA presentation); "State Library Associations: How Well Do They Support Professional Development?" with Donald J. Kenney; RQ 31 (spring 1992): 377-386; "Electronic Journals: Considerations for the Present and the Future," guest editor; authored "Technical Services for Electronic Journals Today," Serials Review 17 no. 4 (1991): 77-78, 84-86; "Embracing the Electronic Journal: One Library's Plan" A Changing World: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group. New York, Haworth: 1991; p.97-108. (based on plenary paper presented to NASIG, June 1991, Brock University); "Librarians in Academic Limbo: Support for Scholarship," with Donald J. Kenney; Southeastern Librarian 39 (winter 1989): 139-141; "Support for Publishing at Academic Libraries: How Much Exists," with John Cosgriff and Donald J. Kenney, Journal of Academic Librarianship 16 (May 1990): 94-97; Report of the Database of Databases Task Force: A University Resource Directory, Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Oct. 21, 1987. (contributor) (ERIC doc. 288549)

Invited Presentations: "Copyright and Electronic Reserves" for the ACRL EReserves Section at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Jan. 11, 1998.; "Progress toward the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations" for the ACRL Science and Technology Sections meeting at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference, Jan. 10, 1998.; "Technology Initiatives and Organizational Change: Higher Education in a Networked World"; Joanne Eustis and Gail McMillan; presented to CAUSE '97, Orlando, Florida, Dec. 4, 1997 accompanying slides; "Technology Initiatives and Organizational Change: Higher Education in a Networked World," at CAUSE '97, Orlando, Floria, Dec. 5, 1997, with Joanne Eustis.; "Libraries Address the Challenges of Asynchronous Learning," at the 3rd International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, New York, Oct. 1997; with Joanne Eustis.; "Electronic Journals from a Scholarly Communications Point of View" at the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (program theme: Legal Periodicals Past and Future), July 20, 1997, Baltimore, MD; "Archives Online: Regional Projects" panel leader, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference annual meeting, May 2, 1997, Charlottesville, VA.; "Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Unlocking Access to Graduate Research" at CAUSE/CNI Southeast Regional Conference: Teaching and Learning in Cyberspace, Sept. 12, 1996, Roanoke VA; "VT Scholarly Communications Project," preconference workshop organizer and presenter for CAUSE/CNI Southeast Regional Conference, Sept. 11, 1996, Virginia Tech; "Developing Digital Libraries" at the CAUSE/CNI Northeast Regional Conference: Networked Information: Challenges and Solutions, with David Seamans (UVa EText Center) May 30, 1996, Philadelphia, PA; "Digital Images and Special Collections on the World Wide Web" for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference annual meeting, May 3, 1996, College Park, MD; "VIVA Special Collections: Web Design and Content Considerations" for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference annual meeting, with Betsy Pittman (VCU Special Collections), May 3, 1996, College Park, MD; "Scholarly Communications Project: A Digital Library for the Changing Academy" at the ALCTS Electronic Library: Administrative Issues for Organization & Access Institute, April 26, 1996, Boston, Mass.; "A New Service from Libraries: Electronic Publishing" for the 7th ACRL National Conference: Continuity and Transformation--The Promise of Confluence, Mar. 30, 1995, Pittsburgh (published in the conference proceedings); "The Library in the Electronic Age" to the American Association of University Women, Jan. 24, 1995.; "The Scholarly Communications Project: Publishers and Librarians" for the ARL/AAUP Conference: Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks--Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper, Nov. 6, 1994, Washington, D.C. (published in the conference proceedings); "From Virtual Libraries to Working Reality: The Challenge to Just Do It!" to the ALCTS Institute in The Electronic Library: Administrative Issues for Organization and Access, Oct. 29-30, 1994, San Antonio [institute moderator]; "Electronic Scholarly Communications and Libraries" to the Special Interest Group on Networked Information, Discovery, and Retrieval (SIGNIDR), Aug. 4, 1994, Mitre, Corp., McLean, Va., with James Powell; "Electronic Journals and Virginia Tech Today" to the Arizona State Library Association, Dec. 3, 1993, Tucson, Arizona; to the ALA ALCTS Serials Section, June 27, 1993, New Orleans, La.; "Cataloging CD-ROMS: Serials? Computer files? Serials Files? Computerials? COLDS" to the North American Serials Interest Group, Concurrent Session I: Cataloging Electronic Serials: Today and Tomorrow, June 12, 1993, Brown University; "Acquiring and Accessing Electronic Publications," to the Resources and Technical Services Section of the North Carolina Library Association, Oct. 22-23, 1992, Durham; "MARC Holdings: What Could the Future Hold?" to the ALA Serials Section, June 29, 1992, San Francisco (requested for publication by Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory); "After a Year's Experience with Electronic Journals" was part of the program "Electronic Journals: Library Implications of a New Format," to the District of Columbia Library Association meeting of its Library Technology Interest Group, May 21, 1992; "Embracing the Electronic Journal: One Year Later," to the joint meeting of the Southeastern Library Association and the Louisiana Library Association, March 19, 1992, New Orleans, La.; "Electronic Journals: Access through Libraries" to the Computers in Libraries Conference, March 7, 1992, Washington, D.C. (rewritten and published as a chapter, see above); "Electronic Journals in Technical Services" to the LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation Interest Group, ALA Midwinter, Jan. 26, 1992, San Antonio (requested for publication by Library Resources and Technical Services; see publications above); "Serials Retrospective Conversion: Implementing the MARC Holdings Format" to the LITA/ALCTS Retrospective Conversion Discussion Group, June 30, 1991, Atlanta, Ga. (requested for publication by Technical Services Quarterly; see publications above); "Applying Z39.44-1986," for the ALCTS Committee to Study Serials Standards, June 29, 1991, Atlanta, Ga.; "Embracing the Electronic Journal: One Library's Plan," plenary paper for the NASIG conference, Trinity University, June 17, 1991, San Antonio, Tex. (included in published proceedings, see publications above); "Development and Application of the USMARC Format for Holdings and Locations at University Libraries Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University," to the Virginia VTLS Users Group, Oct. 26, 1988, Norfolk, Va.

Grants and Contracts: U.S. Dept. of Education, FIPSE Program, "Improving Graduate Education with a National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations", with John Eaton and Ed Fox, 1996-99. $208,040.; SURA, "Development and Beta Testing of the Monticello Electronic Library Thesis and Dissertation Program", with John Eaton and Ed Fox, 1996-97. $90,117.
Consulting: CIA Librarians: Staff Readiness Program sponsored by MITRE
Met with staff from CIA and MITRE to present and discuss "From Traditional Technical Services Librarian to Digital Librarian," Feb. 27, 1996, McLean, VA; Coalition for Networked Information panel participant (one of nine librarians and information specialists brought in from around the country) "Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information Value-Chain" July 24, 1995, New York, New York; Consultant to the Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to prepare survey instrument for "Electronic Journals in ARL Libraries," Sept. 1993; and to the Association of Research Libraries, Systems and Procedures Exchange, for its SPEC kit on the handling of electronic journals in ARL libraries, 1992. Published as SPEC Kit 201, Electronic Journals in ARL Libraries: Policies and Procedures, and SPEC Kit 202, Electronic Journals in ARL Libraries: Issues and Trends. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Services, Aug. 1994; Consultant on AMIGOS grant awarded the Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to study the impact of electronic publications on university libraries' technical services' operations, 1992; Project Coordinator for southwest Virginia on the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Virginia Newspaper Project awarded to the Virginia State Library and Archives, June 1992.; Consultant to Faxon Co. (serials vendor) for its preparation of a National Pattern Database using MARC holdings records, 1992; Consultant to OCLC (Online Computer Library Company) and the Virginia State Library and Archives to use MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) holdings records for union listing and Virginia's online library network, June 1991 to June 1993.
Editorial Boards: Serials Review, Sept. 1991 to date; Virginia Librarian, 1991-1992; BiblioTech, 1989-1991

Panels, Poster Sessions, Workshops, Demonstrations, and more

Lead 'virtual' tours of the Scholarly Communications Project for

US Army Training Command about Virginia Tech's efforts in distributed learning, from infrastructure to programs and program development, Apri l24, 1998
Oklahoma Higher Education administrators and faculty, April 23, 1997
Group Study Exchange Team from Korea, March 4, 1997
Landmark Communications, Dec. 16, 1996 NASA Langley Library staff, July 31, 1996
"Electronic Journals and Scholarly Communications� at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, with Dr. Mark Sanders (VT Technology Education) June 21, 1996
Open Society Institute participants from Poland, June 6, 1996
Apple Computer executives, April 30, 1996
University of Oslo Information Systems delegation, Oct. 19, 1995
IAWA (International Archive of Women in Architecture) Board, Oct. 22, 1995
Representatives of the U.S. Dept. of Education and Bell Atlantic for the Blacksburg Electronic Village (Joe Wiencko), June 21, 1994
Participants in the 4th Annual VTLS Directors Conference, Sept. 19, 1994
Representatives of the Virginia legislature, Sept. 2, 1994
University Communications Resource Committee, Oct. 25, 1994 with James Powell
Representatives from Alexandria, Va., Oct. 5, 1994 and Franklin (city), Va., Nov. 29, 1994
Virginia's Director of the Department of Information Technology and the Director of the Council for Information Management, Dec. 14, 1994 [for Faculty Development Institutes (Education and SPIA) re electronic reserves Jan. 9 and Jan. 10, 1995]

"The VT ETD Library: Some Recent Data," and poster session presentor with Ed Fox at the US Dept. of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Secondary Education annual grant directors' meeting, Crystal City, Virginia, {date}

Panel member of "Lessons Learned" for the Working Group on Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Technical Reports of the SURA/SOLINET Monticello Electronic Library Project, Aug. 12, 1994 (re scholarly publishing)

"Sci/Tech Electronic Journals--Production and Access," discussion leader with Ron Gardner, OCLC, for the ACRL Science and Technology Section, ALA San Francisco, June 28, 1992

Participant in the OCLC experiment: cataloging computer files via the Internet, April-June 1992

Panel member for Library Faculty Association program on "Publishing Library Research," Nov. 15, 1991, with Paul Metz and Glenn McMullen

Workshop co-leader with Gary McCombs (National Agricultural Library) on "Applications of the USMARC Format for Holdings" at the LITA MARC Holdings Preconference, June 28, 1991, Atlanta, Ga. and for the North American Serials Interest Group annual conference, June 17, 1990, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Poster session: "Serials on CD" at the Eastern Regional VTLS Users Group Meeting, March 8, 1991, Williamsburg, Va.

Discussion leader for Serials Control Interest Groups: "MARC Holdings" and "Online Check-In," at the Eastern Regional VTLS Users Group Meeting, March 8, 1991, Williamsburg, Va.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations materials: ETDs: Library Issues and Responsibilities; General Information Flier
Electronic Reserve materials: Flier: VT Online Class Materials; Copyright: Is it Fair Use or Is It Theft?"
"Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Merging Perspectives" http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/GailsCCQarticle.html [updated 11/10/95]
Home pages designed and other information: Travel and REsearch Committee: forms and information (mileage, loding and meal allowances, etc.)
a href="http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/TREC/ [created April 13; updated April 20, 1998]; Copyright University Libraries' policies
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/copyright/copyrigh.html[created Jan. 30, 1998; updated April 21, 1998]; VIVA Special Collections home page
http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/spec/viva/viv.htm [updated 2/97]; Special Collections at University Libraries
http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/spec/Spechp3.html [updated 4/22/96]; Friends of University Libraries
http://scholar2.lib.vt.edu/spec/Friends.html [updated 3/8/96]; 1996/97 Annual Report of the Scholarly Communications Project and the Special Collections Department, University Libraries, Virginia Tech; 1995/1996 Annual Report of the Scholarly Communications Project and the Special Collections Department, University Libraries, Virginia Tech; About the Scholarly Communications Project
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/about[ recreated 980119; updated 980223 (GMc) ]; Scholarly Communications Project Statement of Purpose
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/scpabout/spurpose.html" [updated 1/17/95]; Guidelines for Editors of Electronic Journals
with James Powell and Peter Haggerty
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/gailmac/ejguide.html; Electronic Journal Statistics, 1993-1995
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/gailmac/ejstats.html [created March 18, 1996]

Recent Participation in National Professional Organizations:
Appointments and Elected Offices

Association of Southeastern Research Libraries:
Committee on Electronic Archives October 1996 to date
Committee on Special Collections December 1996 to date
CONSER
Electronic Resources Task Force July - December 1995
OCLC
Resource Sharing Advisory Committee July 1993 - June 1996
North American Serials Interest Group
Proceedings co-editor 1993
ALCTS
Serials Cataloging Institute Planning Committee Jan. 1994-96
Electronic Library: Administrative Issues for Organization and Access Institute Feb. 1993-Jan. 1996: Planning Committee Oct. 1994, San Antonio Institute, Moderator May 1996, Boston Institute, Faculty member
Scholarly Communications Committee Oct. 1991-July 1995
LITA/ALCTS Serials Automation Interest Group Jan. 1987-June 1990

Memberships in National Professional Organizations

American Library Association 1979 to date

Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) 1982-1995

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) 1985-1993

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 1979-1982, 1988-1991
1993 to date

Junior Members Round Table (JMRT) 1982-1988

North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 1990-1996

Memberships in National Professional Organizations
American Library Association	1979 to date
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)	1982-1995
Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)	1985-1993
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)	1979-1982, 1988-1991 1993 to date
Junior Members Round Table (JMRT)	1982-1988
North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG)	1990-1996

1995 Faculty Activity Report and Some Activities Planned for 1996

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/staff/gailmac/Gailsresume.html
updated May 8, 1998

MLS	University of Maryland, College Park, 1981 emphasis: rare books, manuscripts, archives
MA	University of Maryland, College Park, 1981 emphasis: early American history
BA	University of California, Riverside, 1972 major: American history; minor: education