Synopsis

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has over 30 years of information and instructional technology experience, including 24 years of managerial experience in academic libraries. He been a digital Internet publisher since 1989, when he established and began to edit one of the first open access journals on the Internet, The Public-Access Computer Systems Review. He is the author of the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. He is co-editor of Institutional Repositories, SPEC Kit 292. He has published papers in Collection Management, Information Technology and Libraries, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, ONLINE, Reference Services Review, Serials Review, and other journals. He has also published nine book chapters. He holds master's degrees in information and library science and instructional media and technology. In 2003, he was named as one of Library Journal's "Movers & Shakers."

Work Experience

Publisher, Digital Scholarship, 4/05-present (not a salaried position).

• Established Digital Scholarship, which provides information and commentary about digital copyright, digital curation, digital repositories, open access, scholarly communication, and other digital information issues. From April 2005 through November 2009, Digital Scholarship had over 4.9 million visitors from 224 counties and over 24.8 million file requests. Provide technical support for the Web sites and publications, including design, development, coding, and maintenance.
• Established (2005) and write DigitalKoans, a Weblog about the issues covered by Digital Scholarship. DigitalKoans is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. By the end of November 2009, there were over 2,500 DigitalKoans postings.
• Write and publish the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources , and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog. Over 75 versions of SEPB have been published since 1996. In 2009, published the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as a print-on-demand paperback book and as a Kindle e-book. SEPB is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Between October 1996 and December 2008, there were over 8.5 million requests for SEPB files. (See "Evolution of an Electronic Book: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" for a detailed history of the bibliography from 1996 to 2001.)
• Established (2005) and update the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography (four versions) and the Google Book Search Bibliography (five versions).
• Created an XHTML version of the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals to compliment the freely available PDF version of this book, which was published in 2005 by the Association of Research Libraries. The OAB is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. From March 2005 through December 2008, there were over 342,000 requests for OAB files.
• Wrote and published Author's Rights, Tout de Suite (2008) and Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite (2008).
• Wrote and published the Institutional Repository Bibliography (2009).
• For further information, see: "A Look Back at Twenty Years as an Internet Digital Publisher."

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 academic rank of Associate Librarian (equivalent to Associate Professor) effective 9/90; promoted to the rank of Librarian (equivalent to Professor) effective 9/05.

Brief Description of Duties

• Spearheaded a wide variety of new technology projects, including pioneering Internet digital publishing projects, such as The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (an open access journal established in 1989) and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, and expert system projects (one of which was named by EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology Program as one of the Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Stories).
• 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.
• Supervised the Systems Division, which had a dozen exempt technical support staff and librarians at its peak.
• Administered technical support for about 500 Windows workstations, over 25 Linux/Windows/Unix servers (including two Web servers), and a Gigabit Ethernet/100BaseTX network in the main library.
• Served as Linux/Unix administrator for eight years.
• Oversaw the design and development of the Web site 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. Previously oversaw support for a Geac Library Information 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

From 1976-1986, served as the Media Library Manager at the Learning Resources Center, SUNY College at Oswego; User Documentation Specialist at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center; Systems Librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University; and the Head, Systems and Research Services at the Health Sciences Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Awards, Honors, and Profiles

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.

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.

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.

Education

MLS, Information and Library Science.
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.

Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (dLIST), Scholarly Communication Editor, 2006-present.

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

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

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-present.

LITA-Bigwig, 2005. (Member of this informal LITA Blog planning group.)

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 (Co-founder 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-present.

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

Advisory Groups

Microsoft Corporation, Live Search Academic, 2006.

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

For Further Information

digitalscholarship at gmail.com