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CURRICULUM VITAE
Johann A. VAN REENEN
M.Sc., M.Dip. Lib. Sci., AHIP
TEL.No.: (work): (505) 277-8310
(home): (505) 237-8336
FAX No.: (505) 277-0702
E-mail : jreenen@unm.edu
EDUCATION
1990 Management Skills for Supervisors
: Provincial Certificate; Camosun College & Ministry of
Advanced Education, Victoria, B. C.
1982+ Academy of Health Information
Professionals (Distinguished Member level), Chicago, Ill.
1975 Master of Science; University
of Pretoria, South Africa (S.A.).
1973 Summer School in Museum Studies,
Leicester University (England) and University of Cape Town.
1971 Masters Diploma in Library
Science, University of Pretoria, S.A.
1968 Bachelor of Science (Genetics
& Entomology), University of Pretoria, S.A.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Febr. 1996 to present :
DIRECTOR, CENTENNIAL SCIENCE &
ENGINEERING LIBRARY, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
N.M. - see: http://eLibrary.unm.edu/csel
Additionally:
January, 2000 to present :
INTERIM HEAD OF PUBLIC SERVICES,
UNM General Libraries.
September. 1998 to December, 1999
:
ACTING HEAD, ZIMMERMAN LIBRARY,
PUBLIC AND ACCESS SERVICES. (Humanities, Social Sciences,
Education,& Economics), UNM General Libraries.
Jan. 1998 to present :
DIRECTOR, LIBRARY LINKAGES, Ibero-American
Science & Technology Education Consortium - see: http://www.istec.org/liblink/
Jan.1997 - Feb.1999, Jan. 2000
- Feb. 2001 :
CHAIR, ALLIANCE FOR INNOVATION
IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION - see: http://www.aisti.org/
Sept. 1991 - Jan. 1996 :
HEAD, LIFE SCIENCES LIBRARIES,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Consisting
of: Woodward Biomedical Library, Eric Hamber Library, St.Paul's
Hospital Library, Biomedical Branch Library and the Life Sciences
Network Service. 57 FTEs; 14 Professional.
Dec. 1988 to Aug. 1991:
DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
& EDUCATION SERVICES, Greater Victoria Hospital Society
(GVHS)*, Victoria, B.C.
Responsible for management, administrative
functions and direction of five departments: Audio Visual,
Education & Management/Staff Development, Libraries, Publications,
and a regional Printing Plant.
* Five hospitals under Corporate
management on 4 sites; all specialties.
Jan. 1985 - Nov. 1988:
CHIEF LIBRARIAN, Victoria Medical
& Hospital Libraries, GVHS.
Administration and reference work.
Amalgamated four site libraries and a Nursing School Library
into a core library and one branch library.
Jan. 1981 - Dec. 1984:
LIBRARIAN, Victoria Medical Society/Royal
Jubilee Hospital Library, RJH, Victoria, B.C.
Department director; responsible
for budgeting and supervisory activities, as well as collection
development and reference work.
Jan. 1979 - Jan. 1981:
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, Woodward
Biomedical Library, University of British Columbia (U.B.C.),
Vancouver, B.C.
June 1975 - Dec. 1978:
CURATOR, Spencer Entomological
Museum and LECTURER, Dept. of Zoology, U.B.C.
Research, curatorial activities,
teaching, student tutorials, exhibits.
Jan. 1974 - May 1975:
CHIEF LIBRARIAN, Transvaal Museum
of Natural History.
Administration, biological reference
and research assistance.
Jan. 1971 - Dec. 1973:
ENTOMOLOGIST, Transvaal Museum.
Officer-in-Charge of the General
Entomology section. Administration, curation, research, lectures
to museum visitors and students.
Personal Research, Management
and Service Interests and related significant accomplishments
Leadership, Decision Making,
and Risk Taking:
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* Served on all of the UNM General Library's various library
management councils since 1996. Currently serve on the Dean's
Cabinet.
* Created the UNMGL Public Services
management structure and its management committees (January
2000).
* Ibero-American Science &
Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC): Reorganized the Library
Linkages Program of ISTEC (January 1998 and May 2000); Facilitated
the ISTEC Strategic Planning process (1/14/1999), Co-organizer
of Mini-Conference for Latin American Libraries at UNM (April
1998) as well as a number of regional conferences in Latin
America.
* Chaired the Alliance for Innovation
in Science & Technology Information for three out of the
recent six years. In this capacity I was involved with the
official process to create a non-profit society, the change
of name and mission, a successful membership drive, two strategic
planning initiatives, and other leadership activities. During
the most recent chairmanship I was instrumental in the hiring
of the Alliance's first accountant and its first executive
director. AISTI has become a major supplier of electronic
citation and content services to the UNM research community.
It implemented the first web-based access to a locally held
ISI/Science Citation database in the world in 1996, under
the auspices of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
* Negotiated or assisted in negotiations
for electronic citation databases and electronic journal packages,
especially as the representative of the UNMGL and/or AISTI.
In the latter capacity, I re-negotiated the ISI Science Citation
Index consortial agreement after its first 3-year cycle and
managed to get a reduction in price. I raised $15,000 pear
year for three years (1996-98) from six science and engineering
departments and $17,000 on a continuing basis (1996 +) from
the Health Sciences Center to enable UNM to join the original
ISI contract which was beyond the Centennial Library's budget
at the time. Examples of other negotiations for electronic
products that I have been involved with include: Academic
Press®, Kluwer®, Blackwel®l, IeVillage® (Compendex), INSPEC®
(Engineering Index), Social Science Citation Index®, Institute
of Physics, and the ongoing, unprecedented negotiations between
ISTEC and SilverPlatter® for a Latin America-wide database
package of 25 major science and technology databases.
* Latin American and Iberian Program
of the UNMGL (LAIP): This is one of the strengths of the UNM
Library but lacked a strong public service component. Worked
on the creation of this area studies program since May 2000
with Carolyn Mountain, Nancy Dennis, Russ Davidson and Mina
Jane Grothey. I lead the Public Services, Research & Outreach
Division and supervise the Program Manager of same.
* One of a four member team that
lead the University of British Columbia Library's Review of
Services project (1994- 95).
* Member of Planning and Management
Council of the UBC Library (1991-95).
* Restructured the UBC Life Sciences
Libraries organization (1991). Implemented first dialup service
to Medical and Health Sciences databases (1991-92).
* Established the Electronic Teaching
& Learning Center for the Woodward Biomedical Library.
* Created the first public relations
and marketing products for Canadian Health Libraries Association
(CHLA).
* During the first Hospital Systems
merger in Canada, I played a leadership role in organization
development, resulting in creation of an Organization Development
position, in the amalgamation of five departments reporting
to me and in restructuring the GVHS Education Services division.
I created a "Management Forum" for 250 GVHS managers,
lead team building and problem solving interventions with
non-functioning groups, and planned major Management Development
interventions.
* Provided numerous workshops
for librarians and others on risk taking and decision making
in the electronic environment, and on leadership in digital
libraries. Published articles on same. More detials regarding
these can be found in the sections on Presentations/Workshops
and Publications.
OTHER MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES:
* Completed regular annual reports
for CSEL and annual reviews for staff and faculty in areas
for which I have responsibility. Negotiated annual assignments
for CSEL personnel. Chair the CSEL All-staff committee for
which I compile the minutes.
* Planned and opened a coffee
shop (now a café area with vending machines) in CSEL (1999)
* Implemented a Rapid Document
Delivery service at CSEL for paying customers and self-service
electronic DD for faculty and graduate students. The latter
obtains electronic documents from the Canadian Institute for
Science and Technology Information (CISTI).
* While administrating the Zimmerman
public service departments and the UNMGL Public Service division,
I initiated the implementation of self-service circulation
holds and renewals and two successive automated interlibrary
loan initiatives, CLEO® and ILLiad® respectively.
* Organized cooperative work between
the CSEL technology staff and students from EECE 435 (Software
Engineering Projects) which resulted in the Full Text Finder
for UNMGL electronic journals and a web-based order form for
the Library Linkages initiative of ISTEC (Fall 1998).
* Re-built a failing printing
plant at the Greater Victoria Hospital Society into a successful
regional printing operation serving eight hospitals and implemented
a comprehensive electronic publishing capability and cost
recovery for a variety of products.
* Developed a Document delivery
operation at the Woodward Biomedical Library for commercial
and local customers.
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Scholarly Publishing and Digital library initiatives :
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* Edited a book on contract for the Organization of American
States and authored three of the chapters. Digital Libraries
and Virtual Workplaces: Important initiatives for Latin America.
Washington, DC: OAS, in press.
* Grant funding from UNESCO. Preparation
of the International Guide for the Creation of Electronic
Theses and its translation. Granted 12/29/2000 for 2001. PI:
Edward Fox, Virginia Tech. Co-recipients: Joseph Moxley, University
of South Florida; Shalini Urs, Virginia Tech.; Marian Bate,
University of New South Wales, Australia; Johann van Reenen,
University of New Mexico. Authored a section of the Guide
(in press).
* Presented proposals to the UNM
Office of Graduate Studies and their advisory committee (4/26/2001)
on developing a digital theses project for UNM. Two meetings
were arranged in 1999 at UBC with Ed Fox from Virginia Tech's
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations to educate
UNM stakeholders about this initiative.
* Organizer & Chair of the
First Mini-Conference on trends in science & technology
information for Alliance for Innovation in Science & Technology
Information. 8/18/2000, Albuquerque, NM.
* US National Science Foundation,
Review Panelist. EPSCoR Grant Merit Review Panels. Computer
sciences/Digital libraries. 3/30-31/2000, Washington, DC.
* Scientific Program Chair: Seminario
/ Taller Subregional sobre Bibliotecas Digitales, San Jose,
Costa Rica, with funding obtained from the Organization of
American States.
* Serve on the Commonwealth of
Knowledge/Mercado Comun de Conocimientos Taskforce of the
Organization of American States (2000+). This is a four-member
taskforce (National Librarian of Peru, National Archivist
& Librarian of Chile, Head of the Latin American Collection
at the Library of Congress, and myself) that will investigate
the potential to digitize and network unique national cultural
collections in South America.
* Invited panelist/participant
at various scholarly communication events, e.g. the Faxon
Colloquium, the Engineering Librarian's Association collections
panel, SPARC membership meeting, the Academic Press National
Advisory Board, the EBSCO Inc. strategic planning institute
on Health Sciences Publishing, and at Motorola Inc's "
IT Challenge" workshops in Latin America.
* Consultant on electronic publishing
for the Ecological Society of America, and a member of its
Publications Visions Committee.
* Consultant on guidelines/processes
for creating electronic journals for the Director of the Computer
Sciences section of CONACyT (the Mexican science council).
Provided written guidelines and a proposed workflow for a
pilot project (6/12/1998).
* Principal Investigator for a
successful National Science Foundation grant for a Digital
Libraries Workshop in conjunction with a grant from CONACyT
(the Mexican science council) and the Organization of American
States. Albuquerque, NM, July 7-9, 1999 (Co-PI: Ramiro Jordan).
* Instigated & co-chaired
a symposium at UNM on: "The Survival of Scholarly Publishing"
(3/30/1998).
* Established a UNM Science &
Engineering Liaison Committee (1996 to present) and its Indirect
Cost Overhead subcommittee (1998).
* Served on the Electronic Serials
Ad Hoc Committee of the UNM Vice Provost for Research (1999,
only librarian member).
* Member of University of British
Columbia Senate Library Advisory sub-committee on Scholarly
Publishing and one of the authors of a nationally distributed
report: Scholarly communication, serials and technology: problems
and possibilities. Vancouver: University of British Columbia,
1995.
* Activist activities include:
meeting with the President of IEEE to discuss librarian's
concerns regarding their society's electronic publication
pricing policies, presented a talk and proposed actions to
the local chapter of the IEEE, wrote a letter of concern to
Engineering Village™ on the sale of their nonprofit organization
to Elsevier Inc. and mobilized other librarians to do the
same, wrote a letter of protest to Nature Online as the representative
of AISTI regarding their unacceptable pricing policy (which
was later revised because of widespread protests), etc.
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Continuous Quality Improvement and Customer Services:
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* Established the Data and Trends Analysis Committee chaired
by Dave Baldwin for the UNMGL Public Services Division (2000).
The committee performed a Web Usability survey and oversaw
UNMGL's participation in the 2001 ARL LibQual+ customer services
survey. Dave Baldwin and Michael Rivera were responsible for
the day-to-day activities and planning for both of these initiatives.
I am the official UNMGL representative for the LibQual+ initiative.
* Conducted three reference service
quality retreats during the recent two years on respectively:
continuous improvement of customer services (6/18/1999), reference
and subject web pages & guides (5/18/2000), and reference
standards (10/5/2000).
* Resulting from the above, established
a Reference In-service and Training Coordinator's position
and appointed a coordinator (12/4/2000).
* Team presenter at the UNMGL
Faculty Meeting of October 13, 1997, on "Standards and
Benchmarking".
* Serve on the UNM Main Campus
Animal Care and Use Committee that reviews research protocols
involving animals. (Invited by chairman, and underwent the
required approval process of the Office of Research Services.)
* Served on UNM Faculty Senate
Committee to Review Administrative Structure.
* Member of UBC-wide Presidential
Committee on Process Improvement and Development
* Served as one of 10 members
on a Pilot Project to re-engineer the Faculty Appointment
Process at UBC.
* Served on the UBC Library's
From-Order-To-Patron (FTOP) task force to re-engineer acquisitions
and cataloguing processes. The FTOP resulted in a number of
innovative changes at UBC.
* Served on the GVHS Quality Improvement
Committee.
* Published articles, presented
workshops and gave lectures in Canada and the United States
on Quality Improvement in Health Sciences Libraries.
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MEMBERSHIPS
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Executive positions:
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Chairman, Library Services Alliance of New Mexico, 1997-.
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Regional Advisory Board , U.S. National Networks of Libraries
of Medicine/Pacific Northwest; Member, 1991-95. (NOTE: First
international board member approved by US Congress).
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Canadian Health Libraries Association; Member, 1979+; Director
of Public Relations & Membership, 1988-90, CHLA/MIS Workload
Measurements taskforce; 1988-1992.
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Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, Library Directors
Council, 1991-96.
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B.C. Health Educators' Association; Board member, 1990-92.
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Camosun College, Library Advisory Board; member 1985-90.
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Institute of Victoria Librarians:President, 1986-87.
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Institute of Victoria Librarians:Treasurer, 1985.
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Other:
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Medical Library Association (Chicago); Member, 1980 + and
Certified at Distinguished level.
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Special Libraries Association (including Rio Grande Chapter)
member, 1996+
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ALA & ACRL Member.
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Council of Higher Education Computing Services; member, 1996+
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