Professional

Significant Professional Consulting
Journal Activities
Professional Conferences

Professional Activities
Local Institutional Activities
Civic or Other Activites of Note

   
 
Significant Professional Consulting

Lecturer, AJ Seminars, New York City

Consultant, Multivariate Statistical Models, The Conference Board, New York City.

Consultant, Corporate Reference Information Services, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield,
          New York City.

Consultant, Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City (NY State Council on the Arts
          Library Preservation Grant) Preservation and conservation study:
          Statistical data survey of books and folios.

Consultant with Philip Clark & James Benson: Study of special populations served by:
          (1) Elizabeth Free Public Library
          (2) Asbury Park Public Library

Consultant with Donald R. King:
          Library automation projects at Lakewood Public Library
          Union Public Library
          Jersey City State College
          Passaic Area Libraries System Automation Consortium.

Consultant to NJ Academic Libraries on Journal Collections
          Statistical analyses of combined, union holdings.

Consultant to New York Public Library on Digital Projects Evaluation.
          Picture Collection at Mid-Manhattan Central Library.

Consultant to Millburn Public Library on regional library use patterns.

1982-85

1983-84

1983-87


1989-90




1993
1990-91

1989-91





1999-2000


2001-2003


2002-2003

 
 
Journal Activities

Editorial Board:

Information Technology and Libraries

Journal of Library & Information Science

Referee, Library Quarterly

Book Reviewer, Library Quarterly
                       Journal of Education for Library & Info. Sci.

 

1984-86

1989-91

1992-94

1993-94
1996-

 
 
Porfessional Conferences

Referee and Chair, Award Papers (5 categories), Association for

Library and Information Science Education, annual conferences

Referee, Juried Papers, Association for Library and Information Science Education,
          annual conference

Program Planner, Special Interest Group Sessions (18 in all)
          Association for Library and Information Science Education

1990-1995;

1999-2000

1997


1997-98

 
 
Professional Activities

Association for Library and Information Science Education

1972-

1992-95
1990-95

1995

1996-

          Chair


          Member

          Board of Directors

Research Committee
Member

Resolutions Committee

Elected Member-at-Large

American Library Association

1967-

          Member                                   American Library Association (LITA)
                                                         Science and Automation

          Jury Member                            BNA Scholarship Award                                                                          1979-81

          Member                                   American Library Association (LITA)                                                         1982
                                                         National Conference Exhibits Subcommittee

          Chair                                       Library Research Roundtable                                                                    1983-84

          Co-Chair                                  Library Research Roundtable, Doctorial Group                                           1986-87

          Program Chair                          LAMA Statistics for Planning and Evaluation                                             1987

          Member                                   Statistics for Library Planning and Evaluation Committee                            1989-90
                                                         Library Administration and Management Association

          Member-at-Large                      Statistics Section                                                                                    1992-94
                                                         Library Administration & Management Assoc

          Chair                                       Committee on Research & Statistics Association-wide Committee              1995-96 & 2002-03

          Elected                                    ALA Council                                                                                           2002-2004

          Appointed                                ALA Carroll Preston Baber Grant Jury                                                       2002-2003

 

New Jersey Library Association 1974-

          Member

          Chair

          Jury Member

          Member

          Chair

 

          Member


          President

College and University Section, Research Committee

Library Development Committee

ALA KIP Award for Library Literature

Education Committee - New Jersey Library Association

Library Development Committee
New Jersey Library Association
Member

Government Relations Committee
New Jersey Library Association

New Jersey State Conference of the American Association
of University Professors.
Representing 10 NJ institutions of Higher Education
including 8,000 faculty.

1983-96

1983-84

1984-85

1988-90

1988-90
1991-93
1987-96

1992-95


2001-2003

 
 
Local Institutional Activities
University-Wide:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
          Rutgers Council of AAUP Chapters

1980-

                    Chair
                    Member
                    Member
                    Grievance Councilor
                    Delegate (Natl AAUP)Collective Barg.
                    Bargaining Chair
                    President
                    Vice-President
                    President

Committee A (Academic Freedom)
Executive Council
Steering Committee

Congress
Chief Negotiator
New Brunswick Chapter

1985-87; 1995-96
1985-96
1985-89; 1990-95
1985-
1988, 1991, 1993
1991-94
1988-89
1993-94
1996-97
          President, NJ State Conference of Chapters: RU; UMDNJ; NJIT 2001-03
SCILS:

          Program Faculty, Ph.D. Program

          Member of the Graduate Faculty

          Chair

          Member

          Member


          Senator


          Chair

 

 

Research Methods Area

Advisory Committee on Appointments and Promotions

Social Science Methods Committee,
The Graduate School, Rutgers

SCILS Senator
Member: Budget and Planning Committee

SCILS Faculty Council

1984-

1984-

1984-87

1985-87

1990-91


2001-03
2001-

2001-03

LIS:

          Coordinator

          Member

          Member


          Chair

          Chair

          Chair

          Chair


          Coordinator

          Representative

Student Association

Personnel Committee

Admissions Committee


Admissions Committee

Scholastic Standing Committee

COA Steering Committee

Student Affairs Committee
Admissions; Scholarships; Scholastic Standing

Faculty Search Committees

New Brunswick Faculty Council
Executive Cabinet
Budget & Finance Committee

1974-98

1982-98

1982-84;86-89;
1991-93;95-96

1986-87 95-96

1984-86; 87-89

1986-88

1997-1998


1999-2002

2001-03
2002-
2002

 
 
Civic or Other Activities of Note
Liaison to American Council of Learned Societies
Host for two visiting Librarians from Hanoi, Vietnam
This included a three month summer visit in 1993.
With S. Swartzberg, coordinated activities at Rutgers and helped arrange visits to
other NJ institutions and to such Universities as Cornell and Harvard.

"Funding New Jersey Public Libraries."
Testimony before Education Funding Review Commission of the New Jersey State Legislature.
Testimony on property tax formulas used to fund public libraries; presented statistical evidence
to justify proposing revisions to current formulas

Initiator & Coordinator of Eagleton Survey of NJ Public Library Use
Under auspices of New Jersey Library Association

Testimony for the The Rutgers Council of AAUP Chapters provided over many years to:
Board of the Department of Higher Education; NJ Legislature's Joint Appropriations Committees;
and, the Rutgers Board of Governors and its committees

Faculty sponsor for Stacy Roth as a visiting librarian to SCILS while she completed a book
now published by the University of North Carolina Press

Member, Governor McGreevey's Higher Education Transition Team

1992/93

 
 
Oct 25, 1993
 
1989 & 1993
 
1993-
 
1995-96
 
2001
Examples of PhD Involvement at the Universities
University of Pittsburgh Committee member for John Philip Mulvaney
University of Wisconsin--Madison Committee member of Jana Varlejs
 


Dan O'Connor LIS
/ SCILS / Rutgers