Johanna Bowen Office: 831-479-6536
Fax: 831-479-6536 jobowen@cabrillo.edu
Current Position (1995- the present)
Director / Division Chair Robert E. Swenson Library / Learning Resources Center
Cabrillo College, Aptos California
Responsibilities:
- Director / Division Chair for the Library / Learning Resources Center
- Member, Instruction Council
- Oversight of budget, staffing, program planning for library instruction,
library systems, and all public services
- Management of four full time librarians, eight part time librarians, and
seven classified staff members.
- Represent to the college community and the wider community in Santa Cruz
County the overall goal of Information Competency for library users.
- Coordinate the library wide strategic planning activity with the Cabrillo
College Master Plan.
- Responsibility for the1997 remodel of the
library building.
- Member of the Cabrillo College Instruction Council
- Member Campus Wide Technology Committee
- Participant in Administrative Review of Cabrillo College Curriculum
- College Master Plan Committee
- Distance Learning Committee
- Textbook Committee
- Cabrillo Off Campus sites coordinator
- Scotts Valley International Baccalaureate liaison for Library 10 section
Additional activities (community and state):
- President: Council of Chief Librarians
- Webmaster for CCL Web Page at http://www.cclccc.org
- Member: Chancellor's Technology Advisory Committee
- Member: Chancellor's Library and Learning Resources Advisory Committee
- Community College and Junior College Library Section. Technology Committee.
1998- present.
- Member: Accreditation Teams for Antelope Valley College, El Camino College,
San Francisco City College
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT State University
of New York College at Cortland. Memorial Library (1978/1995)
- Responsibilities: Coordinator for Technical Services and Bibliographer
for Public Policy, Political Science and Business
- Management of two full time and two three-fourths time librarians and
nine clerical staff. Participation with other coordinators in all library
planning and budget allocation activities.
- Responsibilities as Coordinator for Technical Services included:
- Oversight of all original cataloging
- Oversight of Acquisitions and fund accounting activities
- Development of policies for Format Independent cataloging
- Original and copy cataloging for computer files, interactive multimedia
and Internet resources.
- Responsibilities as Reference/Bibliographer for Political Science, Business
and Public Policy programs included.
- Collection development decisions
- Participation in Reference program
- Participation in library's classroom instruction program
- Selection of WWW resources for Memorial libraries web server.
Syracuse University. Engineering and Life Science Library 1975/1978
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and
Forestry 1968/1972
Princeton University. 1966/1968
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS / SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
- [moderator, speaker, ALA San Francisco 2000? Assistive Tech in CA]
- Library and Information Technology Association, American Library Association.
Appointed as member to the LITA Menbership committee: 1996-2000.
- Webmaster for the http://www.cclccc.org homepage for the Council of Chief
Librarians
- Speaker at California Library Association "Real Support for the Virtual
College: Online Classes and Libraries Coming Together" Panelist, November
14, 1998.
- CAPED conference panelist October 31, 1998.
- Elected in 1998 to Council of Chief Librarians of California Community
Colleges. Represent the SouthWest Bay area.
- Project coordinator for participation in INTERCAT, the OCLC project to catalog
internet resources and create a separate database of internet resources.
- Co-chaired the committee which specified all aspects of the implementation
profile for a MultiLIS online public access catalog and circulation system.
Authorities coordinator for the five library consortium which shares the
MultiLIS software in a single host, multiple databanks mode.
- Program chair for state wide Authorities Format workshop, May 10, 1994.
- Designed, wrote specifications for and implemented a project to create 1)
a database of all periodical resources. 2) an automated subject classed list
of Abstracts and Indexing services.
- Surveyed and analyzed the quality of OCLC member cataloging used by SUNY
Cortland over a six month time period and recommended continuing cataloger
review.
- As Chair of the South Central Research Library Council Advisory Committee
on Union Listing, managed the $150,000 LSCA Grant to create a Union List of
Serials. The method chosen, using OCLC but decentralizing the process with
high quality control, required presentation of workshops and designing a process
and control system which is still in place.
- Member of a review panel which considered 31 Grant proposals for the OCLC
Library School Research Equipment Support Program in 1986.
NATIONAL / REGIONAL / LOCAL PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
- Elected President, Council of Chief Librarians Executive Board, Summer
2002 for a two year term.
- Served 1998-2002 on Council of Chief Librarians Executive Board of California
Community Colleges. Represent the SouthWest Bay area.
- LITA Membership Committee. Appointed to two terms 1996/2000.
- Chair, ALA LITA Library Consortia and Automated Systems Interest Group,
1993/1995. Plan and provide program topics for semi-annual meetings.
- Appointed to state-wide SUNY Library Directors Special committee to study
New Financial Models for SUNY Libraries 1995.
- ALA Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group. Program Committee
1993. Discussion Facilitator at ALA meetings 1993-1994.
- Elected in state wide elections to the SUNY/OCLC Network Advisory Board.
Elected to serve for the period from 1984-1986 and from 1992/1999. Chair of
the Task Force on Network Microcomputer Support. Drafted and wrote the final
document which was published as a SONAC letter no. 36 containing the
"Policy Statement on SUNY/OCLC Network Microcomputer Support." Chair of the
Budget and Pricing committee 1993-1994. Member Long Range Planning Committee
1993/95.
- Elected in state wide election to the SUNY/OCLC Network Cataloging and
Database Services Advisory Committee 1991-1994.
- Elected in state wide elections to two terms (the legal maximum) as OCLC
Users Council Member representing the SUNY/OCLC Network. In this capacity
I chaired the Ethics Committee which authored the "Code of Responsible Use
for the OCLC Online Union Catalog" and served on various task forces. 1982-1986.
- Chair, 1986-1993 of OCLC National Union List Users Group. In this capacity
I organized and moderated meetings of the group at annual and mid-winter American
Library Association meetings from 1986-1993.
- Chairperson 1980-1988, 1991-93 Union List of Serials Advisory Committee
for New York State South Central Research Library Council.
PRESENTATIONS / PUBLICATIONS
Speaker at California Library Association "Real Support for the Virtual College: Online Classes and Libraries Coming Together" Panelist, November 14, 1998.
CAPED conference panelist October 31, 1998. *Invited speaker at the American
Library Association Annual Meeting, July 7, 1996
LITA/ALCTS Program on "Database Cleanup after Retrospective Conversion". Presented
a talk entitled "Global Control of Database Cleanup."
*Presenter: Workshop on Technical Services Uses of the WWW at the Aug. 10-11
1995 Conference at Syracuse University entitled "Beyond the Hype; practical
uses of the Internet"
Panelist: SUNY Satelite Distance Learning Tele-conference on Serials Management
using MultiLIS Serials Sub-system. July 1995.
Invited speaker: "MarcReview Analysis of SUNY Cortland's OPAC: The Race is
not to the Swift" at the Annual Meeting of New York State MultiLIS Users Group,
March 1995, Albany NY.
Invited Speaker: On Serials Cataloging issues for Technical Services staff.
May 26, 1995 at the meeting of the CATS group of Central NY.
ALA Copy Cataloging Discussion Group meeting June 1994 Program speaker
on "Impact of CONSER on Cataloging at a Small Library."
Presented CBT package "LC Easy" at a Poster Session at the State University
of New York Librarians Association Annual Meeting held June 10-12, 1992.
Invited Speaker for a South Central Research Library Council Conference
on "Hot Issues in Technical Services" 5 October 1990. Spoke on Multiple Versions
issues.
Panel member at ACRL College Libraries Section Program at ALA July 1986
entitled "Our Jobs, Ourselves."
Policy Statement on Network Microcomputer Support." in SONAC letter
no 36, June 1984.
"Code of Responsible Use for the OCLC Online Union Catalog: about the
Code" OCLC, 1984. Chaired the OCLC User's Council commiteewhich wrote the
Code and personally wrote the background document which is printed on the
back of the Code and is was distributed by OCLC to member institutions from
1984-1995.
"A shared approach to Union List maintenance" invited speaker for a program
at Western New York Library Research Council in 1983.
Organized and moderated a program entitled "Microcomputers in SUNY libraries"
at the Annual Meeting of SUNY Librarians Association in June 1983.
"Management of quality control in a decentralized Union Listing Project"
in Serials Review, 8:3, 1982.
TEACHING
- Teach "Using
the Internet" a one unit, six week Internet use course. Spring 1996-2000
- Teach Library 10: Information Resources" a one unit self-pased, workbook-based
course
- On a regular basis prepare and deliver Information Literacy sessions
targeted to a specific course material.
- Planned and implemented a Uniform Job Training Program for the 120+ students
employed by Memorial Library. This program has training modules for the
classification system and catalog use as well as employee responsibilities
and rights. In 1991, supervised the conversion of my in-house publication:
"Introduction to Library of Congress Classification" to an interactive Computer
Based Training program. The programming was done by a former employee who
was then a graduate student at Ithaca College. SUNY Cortland has used the
new software application "LC Easy" with new student employees since Fall
1992. Demonstrated the software at a poster session at the annual meeting
of the State University of New York Librarians Association in June 1992.
- Participated in teaching the one hour sessions integrated into Freshman
Composition.
- Taught focused one-hour library resources sessions for Public Policy
program.
- Adjunct faculty at Syracuse University School of Information Science
and Technology, where I taught Organization of Information, IST 503 (Cataloging)
1986-1987
EDUCATION:
University of Illinois BA History
University of Illinois MS Library Science
Syracuse University MA Public Administration
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