Allen W. McKiel

1550 Redwood Place, Tahlequah, OK
74464

Home—(918)
458-1921;
Work—(918) 444-3211;
Cell—(574) 520-9244

E-Mail—[email-masked]

Education

Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Indiana State University,
2001.

MLS from Indiana
University, 1978

BA in English Literature from Purdue University,
1975

Positions

Dean of Library
and Media Services                                   January
2008 to Present

Western Oregon
University, Monmouth, OR

Director of
Libraries                                                              November
2002 to January 2008

Northeastern
State University,
Tahlequah, OK

Library Director                                                                     March
1990 to October 2002

Ivy Tech
Community College, South Bend, IN

Senior Systems
Analyst                                                         October
1986 to September 1989

Indiana Department of Highways, Toll Road Division, Granger IN

Programmer/Analyst                                                  January
1986 to October 1986

Notis, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Implementation Project
Manager                                         October
1983 to January 1986

OCLC, Dublin,
OH

Programmer/Analyst                                                  September
1981 to March 1983

South Bend School Corporation, South Bend, IN

Branch Library
Director                                                        November
1978 to January 1980

Michigan City Public Library, Michigan City, IN

Current Committee/Board Responsibilities

National

Ebrary Technical Advisory Board

Statewide

Orbis Cascade Alliance

University-wide

Council of Academic Administrations

Library

Library Faculty Committee

Professional Activities

Presented:
Student’s
Perception of E-books- Survey Results and Discussion. Charleston Conference.
Charleston, South Carolina. November, 2008.

Presented: Academic Libraries without Print. Charleston Conference. Charleston, South Carolina. November, 2008.

Presented: Collaborative Information
Literacy Model—LSTA Grant: Cooperative Library Instruction Project. Oregon Information Literacy Summit. OSU, Corvallis, OR.
November 2008.

Presented: LSTA Grant: Cooperative
Library Instruction Project. ACRL-Oregon & Washington Fall Conference. Corbett, OR.
October, 2008.

Presented: Academic Libraries: Beyond Paper. NISO - Digital Resources: Working
with Formats beyond Serials. San
Francisco. May 6, 2008.

Ariticle: Academic Libraries after Print. Against the Grain. v.20 #
1, February 2008. p 56

Presented: Analysis of Ebrary Survey on E-content.
Professional and Scholarly Publications Conference, Washington DC.
February, 2008.

Presented: Analysis of Ebrary Survey on E-content. ALA Midwinter. January,
2008.

Article: Survey Analysis: ebrary User Survey. The Acquisition Librarian. V. 19, #
3-4. 2007 p. 231

Article: Faculty Experiences with
Electronic Resources.. The Acquisition Librarian. V. 19, # 3-4. 2007 p. 247

Article: Analysis of October 2007 Ebrary Faculty Survey
on E-content. Distribution through ebrary.
October, 2007.

Presented: E-books Panel Discussion. Charleston
Conference. Charleston, South Carolina.
November, 2007.

Presented: Analysis of Ebrary Survey on E-content. ALA. 2007.

Article: Analysis of March 2007 Ebrary Survey on
E-content. Distribution through ebrary. June, 2007.

Book: Beyond
Tolerance: Religion and Global Community. Heltonville, IN:
Interfaith Resources. 2007.

Presented: Workshop for a consortium of 7
Community Colleges in Wyoming.
Implementing an Information Literacy
Cooperative Using Tutorials. April 19-20, 2007.

Presented: E-books Panel Discussion. Charleston
Conference. Charleston, South Carolina.
November, 2006.

Presented: Workshop sponsored by OCALD on
ACRL Standards for Instruction. CLIP and
the ACRL Information Literacy Standards.
April, 2006.

Presented: Poster Session at Merlot
International Conference, Cooperative
Library Instruction Project. August 2005.

Participant: Teaching India
Workshop, University of Central
Arkansas, February 10-12, 2005

Participant:
Hulbert Public Library Strategic Planning Committee, September-October, 2004

Presented:
Merlot International Conference, Overview
of Cooperative Library Instruction Project, August 4, 2004

Article: Cooperative Library Instruction Project
(CLIP) Update.  Oklahoma Librarian,
July/August 2004

Presented:
Oklahoma
Library Association Conference, Overview
of Cooperative Library Instruction Project—CLIP, April 16, 2004

Presented:
Oklahoma
Library Association Conference, Technical
Overview of the  Cooperative Library
Instruction Project, April 16, 2004

Presented:
Oklahoma
Library Association Conference, Discussion
of the  Cooperative Library Instruction
Project, April
16, 2004

Presented:
University of Central Oklahoma, CLIP Sound Forge and Macromedia Flash Workshop, April 2, 2004

Presented:
University of Central Oklahoma, CLIP Macromedia Flash Workshop, March 26, 2004

Presented:
Rose State College, CLIP Content Workshop, February 27, 2004

Presented:
Rose State College, CLIP Macromedia Flash Workshop, February 27, 2004

Presented:
Northeastern State University-Broken Arrow Campus, CLIP Macromedia Flash Workshop, December 19, 2003

Presented:
Northeastern State
University, CLIP Content
Workshop, November
19, 2003

Presented:
Northeastern State
University, Overview of the Cooperative Library
Instruction Project, October 24, 2003

Dissertation, Transition of the Ivy Tech State College Library System from
Traditional to Electronic, 2001.
Available through Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest

Presented:
League for Innovation in Community Colleges 2000 Annual Conference, Transition of Library Operations from Print
Based to Electronic

Article: Partnering Within: Technology Development
in the Ivy Tech State
College Library System.  Indiana Libraries, Vol.
18, 1999.

Presented:
League for Innovation in Community Colleges 1999 Annual Conference, Creating a Statewide Virtual Library for Ivy Tech
State College

Article: MIIS: Giving Libraries More Computing
Power.  Library Software Review.
January-February, 1985

Library Management Experience Summary

Direct the three-campus library system at Northeastern State University

Initiated Cooperative Library Instruction Project
(CLIP)

Developed the plans for implementing the statewide
virtual library for the Ivy Tech library system

Directed the three-site regional library services
for Ivy Tech State College North Central Region

Project manager of customer site implementation for OCLC’s LS200 Local Library System

Headed a project for OCLC to document the code for LS2000

Wrote bibliographic data conversion programs for Notis at Northwestern
University

Grants—Title III (funded for $720,000) and local
area corporate (funded for $50,000)

Teaching

Northeastern State University
(Adjunct): College Strategies (Undergraduate). School Library Media
Administration (Graduate).

Indiana University (Adjunct): Education Methods
(Undergraduate), Curriculum (Undergraduate). Issues in Education (Graduate).

Ivy Tech
Community College (Adjunct): Sociology.
English Composition. Research Strategies. (All Undergraduate)

TEDA International
School at Tianjin, PRChina
(Sabbatical): Elementary and Jr. High—English, Math, Social Studies

Technical

Researched, analyzed, and implemented library,
office, and accounting automation solutions

Provided system design for implementation of
programming and/or packaged software solutions

Programmed in IBM assembler, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol,
and MIIS

Designed the toll audit system for the Indiana
Department of Highways

Job
Descriptions

Northeastern State University

As
Director of Libraries, I oversee operations for the John Vaughan Library at the
Tahlequah campus and two branch libraries at the Broken
Arrow and Muskogee
campuses. The annual budget is approximately two million dollars. The library
includes 36 employees; 18 are faculty positions. The Tahlequah library is a
three-story, 120,000 square foot facility. It contains over 1.2 million physical
items including approximately 350,000 monographs. The library houses a special
collection of Native American heritage materials and an archival collection of
local, county, and university records and historical photographs.

The
libraries also provide access to online resources and services that are
available to all students and faculty from the Internet at http://library.nsuok.edu/index.html.
Online services currently include Internet access to approximately 110
databases, IM-based reference, and online library instruction. The databases
contain a wide variety of resources including electronic books; full text
journals; journal indexes; electronic versions of reference books in medical,
literary, general, and business subject areas; and online maps, test
information, design images, and business information. The e-book collection
contains over 70,000 titles. The library provides access to a full-text
collection of over 13,000 Internet based journal titles mostly through
providers like Wilson,
ProQuest, EBSCO, and J-Store.

As the Director of Libraries, my efforts have focused on three fronts: the
transition from print to electronic dissemination of information, instruction
in the use of information resources, and the improvement of the physical
environs of the library with the particular focus of making it more accessible,
friendly, and comfortable.

Academic
librarianship at this point in the transition from print to electronic
distribution of information resources requires the ongoing search for their
optimal balance for any given academic setting. For NSU over the past few years, an additional percentage of its annual
material budget has been dedicated to the purchase of Internet based resources.
We have added 1,591 Internet-based journal titles through vendor databases. We
have also added twelve databases of Internet based resources like MDConsult, MLA, Oxford Reference,
and Disclosure. We have also purchased access to over 70,000 e-books from netLibrary and Ebrary. The
additional Internet based resource cost of approximately $110,000 was offset by
a savings of  $108,000, which
accrued through canceling 365 print journal titles and 71 microform titles that
were directly replaced, title by title, by electronic counterparts in the
purchased databases.

Even
though the library is expanding the resources in support of the curriculum, the
tool of choice for a majority of students is Google. Students and faculty are
often far from fluent in the use of the new electronic information environment.
For this reason, a major focus of my efforts at NSU has been the development of
library instruction, particularly Internet based, in an effort to integrate the
use of electronic information resources into the curriculum at the general,
department, and course level. Online technology is used to facilitate instruction
in the growing volume and complexity of resources. My initial effort using
online technology for library instruction was the development of a one credit
hour library class at Ivy
Tech Community
College. My efforts have continued in Oklahoma with the
initiation of CLIP—Cooperative Library Instruction Project. The CLIP tutorials
can be found at http://library.nsuok.edu/tutorials/index.html.

We have
undertaken five projects over the past few years to improve the environs of the
John Vaughan Library—a library café, improved library facilities, expanded
library hours, replacement of VTLS with Innovative Interfaces, and the addition
of a wireless network and checkout laptops. We have also participated in the
design of a new library building for the Broken
Arrow campus.

Ivy Tech
Community College

I directed the three libraries of Region 2 for twelve
years. My position functioned in two arenas—local and state.  Locally, I oversaw and participated in
the functioning of the three libraries associated with the South
Bend, Elkhart, and Warsaw campuses. At the state level, I worked
with the librarians from the other thirteen regions of Ivy Tech in the
development and maintenance of our common Virtual Library. Because of my
technical background and my personal commitment to and belief in the efficacy
of electronic information resources, I played a central role in the development
of the statewide Virtual Library.
From its inception, I wrote the plans for its development and
implementation and enthusiastically labored in its promotion. Implementation of
the Ivy Tech Virtual Library was a cooperative venture accomplished through
consultation. The librarians responsible for the twenty-four Ivy Tech libraries
met monthly as the Statewide Library Committee for all day working sessions in
the ongoing process of managing and developing the Virtual Library.

Besides writing the plans, I did the majority of the
negotiation and coordination for Ivy Tech statewide with vendors of electronic
information resources. I was also a liaison for the Statewide Library Committee
for coordination and cooperation with other libraries and agencies, i.e. PALNI
(Private Academic Library Network of Indiana), INCOLSA (Indiana Cooperative
Library Services Authority), and ALI (Academic Library
Initiative—organization of over 80 Indiana academic library directors). I
served on the 14-member Steering Committee and chaired the Task Force for
Shared Licensing/Purchasing of Resources.

I developed a one credit hour class in the use of
the Virtual Library and designed and implemented an associated set of on-line
tutorials. Before leaving Ivy Tech, I was in the process of converting the
tutorials to Flash technology in a cooperative initiative that included Ivy
Tech statewide, Indiana State University,
and Vincennes University. I participated in the design
and planning of the new Ivy Tech Region 2 library facility.

TEDA International
School

I took a one-year leave of absence from my
responsibilities with Ivy Tech to teach elementary school students at an
international school in China.

Indiana Department
of Highways

As the senior systems analyst working for the Toll Road, I wrote,
presented, and supervised the implementation of the plans for the ongoing
maintenance of the Toll Audit and Toll Collection systems.  I designed the Toll Audit System for
tracking and balancing income from the Toll Collection System.  I was also responsible for the
replacement of an IBM based accounting system with a VAX/VMS based
package.

Notis

As a programmer/analyst, my responsibilities
included review of specifications with customers, analysis, design,
development, and testing of programs for the conversion of customer library
bibliographic databases to the Notis format.  The language was IBM Assembler, the
environment was VSE.

OCLC

As an implementation project manager for the LS/2000
Local Library System, my responsibilities included: contract review (technical
and schedule); coordination of site preparation and hardware installation;
analysis of library systems and operations; profiling of software; database
creation; analysis, design, and writing of site specific code; and training of
library personnel.  Prior to working
as a project manager, I was responsible, as the lead systems analyst of a team
of four programmers, for the transfer to OCLC of software control and maintenance
from the company that initially developed the application.

References

Christopher
Warnock

Dr.
Marnia Kennon

CEO and CTO

Executive
Director of Educational Planning

ebrary

Ivy Tech
Community College

318 Cambridge Ave.

50 W. Fall Creek Parkway
North Drive

Palo Alto, CA
94306

Indianapolis, IN
46208

650-475-8700

317-921-4313

[email-masked]

[email-masked]

Dr.
Adrianna Lancaster

Dr.
Susan Mannan

Library
Director

Library
Director

East Central
University

Ivy Tech
Community College

1100 E. 14th
St.

50 W. Fall Creek Parkway
North Drive

Ada, OK
74820

Indianapolis, IN
46208

580-559-568

317-921-4916

[email-masked]

[email-masked]

Kate
Felzien

Dr.
John Hogan

Coordinator
of Research and Sponsored Programs

Chancellor

Northeastern
State University

Ivy Tech
State College

600 N. Grand Ave.

4475 Central Ave.

Tahlequah, OK
74464

Columbus, IN   47203

918-444-2243

1-800-922-4838 Ext. 5114

[email-masked]

[email-masked]

Dr.
Rebecca Nickoli

Executive
Director of Educational Systems

Ivy Tech
State College

50 W. Fall Creek Parkway
North Drive

Indianapolis, IN
46208

317-921-4515

[email-masked]

Cover Letter Template

A key characteristic of my
library career has been the pursuit of the effective use of technology in
libraries. Since my arrival at Northeastern State University (NSU) nearly five
years ago, the faculty and staff of the library and I have worked to increase
the percentage of the resource budget dedicated to electronically distributed
information. We have also worked with the administration to increase the amount
of funding for library resources. We have initiated the implementation of a
wireless network in the library and purchased laptops for students and faculty
to check out for use in the library. We have established a café that
runs out of the circulation desk. We worked with the administration to secure
funding to purchase a replacement for the VTLS library software. We selected,
purchased, and implemented Innovative Interface’s Millennium system. We
initiated a redesign of our web pages following the college and department
structure of the University. The redesign facilitates our online library
instruction program, which is aimed at comprehensive integration of information
literacy into the curriculum through the use of Internet-based instruction
modules. The changes we have implemented over the past five years have resulted
in a near doubling of library activity.

The focus of my professional
interest and activities throughout my career has been the transition of
libraries into an environment of electronically distributed information. I have
a strong technology background for a librarian, which has inclined me to play
an active role in the transition. The merger of my technical skills with
librarianship occurred initially at OCLC and NOTIS where I worked on library
software systems. Those initial skills were expanded into the online
environment through my day-to-day experiences over twelve years as the Director
of Libraries for Region 2 of Ivy Tech Community College.

I have also been actively
involved throughout my career in efforts promoting library cooperation. I
functioned as the Statewide Ivy Tech Library Committee’s plan writer,
vendor contract negotiator, and primary advocate for the use of technology in
the provision of library services. The committee is a consultative body of Ivy
Tech’s thirteen regional library directors. I acted as a liaison for the committee
for coordination and cooperation with other libraries and agencies, i.e. PALNI
(Private Academic Library Network of Indiana) and INCOLSA (Indiana Cooperative
Library Services Authority). I also represented the Committee on the Executive
Steering Committee for a statewide cooperative effort, the Academic Library
Initiative (ALI), which included all of the academic libraries in the
state—private and public. For ALI, I served as the chair for the
Licensing Task Force for cooperative purchasing and licensing of electronic
information resources. At NSU, I am currently a member of OCALD (Oklahoma College and Academic Library Directors)
and this year serve as the Chair for the Information Literacy subcommittee of
the Expanded Instructional Support Subcommittee.

I would like an opportunity
to explore the possible match of my professional experiences and aspirations
with the goals and objectives prescribed for the Dean of University Libraries.

Metropolitan Universities

A
metropolitan university serves both traditional and non-traditional students.
The student population is therefore more varied than their more rural
counterparts.  The students of city
campuses have representatives from a broader range of ages, life-styles,
cultural experiences, and real-world commitments. The universities successfully
serving the education needs of this population are evolving a model more
closely reflecting the ideal of life-long learning. The learning environment is
more adapted to and molded by the exigencies of the lives and commitments of
the learners in the context of the community. The university library in a
metropolitan setting demonstrates the same qualities of flexibility and
responsiveness.

While
approachability may be in evidence in the physical environs of the library in
hours, furnishings, circulation policies, and services, the primary mandate of
the metropolitan university library is fulfilled through the provision of
access to information resources. This will become increasingly true in the
evolving global economy. The integration of the use of information resources
into the curricula of all educational endeavors will become more important as
electronically disseminated information increasingly becomes the raw material
of the modern economy. This is particularly the case for institutions
supporting life-long learning. The library will become a more integral and
dynamic constituent of the endeavors of academia in the future as the library
operations associated with the provision of electronic resources evolve to support
learning.

Acquisition
of resources in a more fully on-line information environment will shift from
activities focused on purchasing and processing physical materials to those
associated with providing access to electronic resources as the volume and
format diversity of information increases.
Acquisition activities will be associated with purchasing and
coordinating access to databases of electronic information from vendor and
open-source providers. It will also mean providing access to electronic resources
created or owned by the institution. Libraries will take a more central role in
publishing university information to both internal and external information
users. The costs per unit of publication will likely decrease dramatically in
the context of electronic resources as ubiquitous, any-time, any-place Internet
access obviates the need for print distribution.

Cooperative acquisition of electronic resources will
extend the principle of a library as a shared resource and facilitate greater
joint purchasing.  The Internet is
not limited by the boundaries of access that delineate physical
collections.  Cooperatives of
electronic information resources may form as they serve the needs of their
joint constituents regardless of where they reside geographically. The identity
of any given library with respect to the source of funding for the
cooperatively purchased access may eventually be a very complex blend of
different governmental, organizational, and private agencies at multiple levels
and across broad organizational units. The primary identity of the academic
library will be associated with a URL. The patron will know the source of
information by the institutionally provided access point—the web address
and authentication method.

Instruction in and assistance with the use of continuously evolving
information resources will ascend in importance in the academic library.  Instruction will include the
identification and presentation of those resources that are relevant to the
particulars of the curriculum. The need for students, administrators, and
faculty to become more information savvy in an increasingly information
dependent culture will be reflected in the ongoing efforts of librarians to
integrate the use of relevant information resources into the various academic
programs. Instruction in information literacy needs to be systematically and
comprehensively integrated across the curriculum. The use of web presentation
technologies like Macromedia Flash can be used to overcome some of the staffing
limitations that such an endeavor implies. Librarians will need to stay abreast
of the electronic tools for organizing, accessing, and presenting information
which will continually evolve at every level of network infrastructure
including the technologies of online instruction, website development, and
online content management.

There is a caveat to enthusiasm over academic librarianship in the
domain of the Internet. Although the electronic distribution of information
resources is clearly on the ascendancy, academic librarianship at this juncture
in the transition requires the ongoing search for the optimal balance between
the provision of electronic and print for particular subject areas. Some areas
have little available electronically at this point and others have an
abundance. For the interim, academic librarians will necessarily have to
provide operations that support both print and electronic information formats.

Academic
Library Leadership

Organizational
structures and leadership styles that are best suited to change are required in
today’s academic libraries—change in response to the transition
occurring in the information infrastructures of society. Current academic
librarianship necessitates constant efforts to meaningfully and productively
articulate the evolving information and communication technologies into the
teaching, learning, and research exigencies of the curriculum. There are no
best practices that have been established in library operations over decades or
centuries to direct the operations of the library through the transition.
Librarians must discover them.

The
evolution of print-based technologies in the context of academe over the past
five hundred years for the dissemination of information suggests that the
research community will adapt to its purposes whatever technology best promotes
expeditious communication of research. The services of librarians expanded in
the two dimensional world of print because they responded creatively to the
volume and complexity of information produced through the technology of the
printing press. The environs of the electronic information sphere are similarly
providing an opportunity for expanding the role of librarians into the future
institutions of academia. As the increased production of information that
accompanied the technology of the printing press gave rise to the current role
of the librarian in academe, so the volume and evolving complexity of
information resources of the Internet are increasingly impacting the role of
librarians in today’s institutions. Librarians are called upon to develop
new skills and adjust their efforts to take advantage of the new technologies
for the benefit of their institutions.

I
believe change of this nature occurs most efficiently in environments whose
participants at all levels can communicate effectively in identifying
opportunities afforded by new technologies and can cooperate in articulating
them into operational advances. Successful leadership in this regard encourages
structures and attitudes conducive to problem-solving and open communication.
It promotes a mode of operation that is flexible, open to experimentation, and
tolerant of mistakes made in the pursuit of improving library service.

I am a Myers-Briggs ENFP. The
propensities associated with this personality type assist me in fostering a
healthy, cooperative work environment. Consultation and consensus building are
the central mechanisms of my management style. In my personal demeanor, I look
for win/win outcomes using a combination of sensitivity concerning people and
quantitative and analytical skills for shaping solutions. I prefer a relaxed,
personal, and open working environment. My verbal aptitudes (GRE 660) allow me
to work effectively in groups, present, and write effectively. I bring
reasonably strong quantitative and analytical aptitudes (680 and 610
respectively) for problem solving and the resolution of conflicts and
difficulties. I view myself as a friendly, pragmatic idealist. At core, I am an
optimist. The inclination continues to provide energy to an attitude now more
focused through experience.