Work Experience

Publisher, Digital Scholarship, 4/05-present.

• In 2005, established Digital Scholarship (http://digital-scholarship.org/), which provides information and commentary about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. Digital Scholarship's digital publications are open access. Publications are under versions of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License.
• Also that year, established DigitalKoans, a weblog that covers the same topics as Digital Scholarship.
• From April 2005 through March 2013, Digital Scholarship had over 11.9 million visitors from 229 counties and over 57.4 million file requests, including over 40.1 million page views.
• From February 2005 through March 2013, Bailey published the following books and book supplements: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition (2009), Digital Scholarship 2009 (2010), Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography (2010), the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 (2011), the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 (2011), the Institutional Repository and ETD Bibliography 2011 (2011), the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works (2012), and the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works, 2012 Supplement (2013).
• During this period, Bailey also published and updated the following bibliographies and webliographies as websites with links to freely available works: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (1996-2011), the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography (2005-2012), the Google Books Bibliography (2005-2011), the Institutional Repository Bibliography (2009-2011), the Open Access Journals Bibliography (2010), the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (2010-2011), the E-science and Academic Libraries Bibliography (2011), the Digital Curation Resource Guide (2012), and the Research Data Curation Bibliography (2012-2013).
• For more details, see the "Digital Scholarship Publications Overview."

Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 11/87-1/07.

Prior titles: Assistant Dean for Systems, 11/87-7/03, and Assistant Director for Systems, 1/97-6/03. Promoted to the rank of Librarian (equivalent to Professor) effective 9/05.

• Spearheaded a wide variety of new technology projects, including pioneering Internet digital publishing projects such as The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (the first open access journal in the field of library and information science, which was established in 1989).
• Led the digital library program, including digitization efforts, digital exhibit development, and copyright, institutional repository, and scholarly communication task forces.
• Wrote (or assisted in writing) technology grant applications that raised over $2.1 million, including two federal grants.
• Established and supervised the Systems Division, which had a dozen exempt technical support staff and librarians.
• Administered technical support for about 500 Windows workstations, over 25 Linux/Windows/Unix servers, and a Gigabit Ethernet/100BaseTX network in the main library.
• Served as the UH Libraries' primary Linux/Unix administrator for eight years.
• Oversaw the design and development of the website for over 8 1/2 years and its migration from using static HTML pages to dynamic database-driven pages, powered by ColdFusion and SQL Server technologies.
• Served as acting Webmaster three times (3 years total) with direct responsibility for the library's Web site, including site design, development, coding, and maintenance.
• Managed the procurement, implementation, and support of a multi-institutional Innovative INNOPAC integrated library system and its migration to an Innovative Interfaces' Millennium system.
• Planned and implemented a public access facility in conjunction with Public Services Division staff, which grew from seven workstations in 1998 to over 140 in 2003.
• Coauthored with the Director two proposals (1988 and 1989) for a statewide resource sharing system, which were submitted to the Texas Council of State University Librarians. These proposals initiated a lengthy, complex chain of events that ultimately resulted in TCSUL submitting a new proposal to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to create a statewide system called TexShare, which the Texas legislature funded in 1994.
• Served in various acting capacities, such as Assistant Director for Public Services (15 months; supervised over 30 staff members, including 13 librarians) and Assistant Dean in charge of Branch Services (seven months).

Prior Work Experience

Served as Head, Systems and Research Services at the Health Sciences Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Systems Librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University; User Documentation Specialist at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center; and Media Library Manager at the Learning Resources Center, SUNY College at Oswego.

Awards, Honors, and Profiles

Best Content by an Individual Award by The Charleston Advisor.

Outstanding Issue Award, Dr. Ilene F. Rockman Award, Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2006 (Given for my work on a special issue of Reference Services Review on reference librarians and institutional repositories.)

Movers & Shakers 2003: The People Who Are Shaping the Future of Libraries.

Library Journal Staff. "The Imagineer—Charles W. Bailey." Library Journal, 15 March 2003. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA281650.html

Special Achievement Award, University of Houston Libraries, 1998.

Moothart, Tom. "Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Editor, Publisher, Innovator." Serials Review 23, no. 1 (1997): 59-62. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098791397900071

LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communicating to Educate Practitioners Within the Library Field in Library and Information Technology, Library and Information Technology Association, 1993.

Network Citizen Award, Apple Library of Apple Computer, Inc., 1992.

"Brought to You by . . ." Interview by Carol Ebbinghouse. Research & Education Networking 2 (March 1991): 12-15.

Second Place, Wallace Stevens Poetry Award, 1973.

Education

MLS, Information and Library Science, Syracuse University
Honors: Beta Phi Mu International Library Honor Society.

M.A., Education (Instructional Media and Technology).
Honors: Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

B.A., Speech (Communication).

Continuing education: 35 credits in computer science and programming.

Editorial Boards and Publication Teams

Current Cites, team member, 2001-present.

Information Technology and Libraries, Editorial Board member, 2006-2010.

Library Software Review, Editorial Board member, 1991-1999.

Open Access Directory, Editorial Board member, 2008-present.

Reference Services Review, Editorial Board member, 1989-2008.

Invited Referee

PLoS ONE, 2011.

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2007.

Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2005.

Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2002.

The Library Quarterly, 2002.

Publications

See: Selected Publications of Charles W. Bailey, Jr..

American Library Association Service

Association of College and Research Libraries

Electronic Library Development in Academic Libraries Discussion Group 1989-1991 (Vice Chairperson, 1989-1990; Chairperson, 1990-91).

Library and Information Technology Association

Library and Information Technology Editorial Board, 2006-2010.

Frederick G. Kilgour Award Committee, 2003.

Publications Committee, 1992-94 (Chairperson, 1993-94).

Nominating Committee, 1992.

Technical Standards for Library Automation Committee, 1988-1992.

Imagineering Interest Group, 1988-1991 (Cofounder and Vice Chairperson, 1988-1990; Chairperson, 1990-91).

Information School Service

Digital Information Management Certificate Program Advisory Group, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, 2006-2011.

Mentor, Mentor Program for Master's Students in Houston, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, 2001-2007.

Advisory Groups

Gensler, The Future of Academic Libraries Round Table Discussion, 2012.

National Information Standards Organization, Institutional Repository Thought Leader, 2008.

Microsoft Corporation, Live Search Academic, 2006.

For Further Information

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