Work Experience

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

• Established (2005) and write DigitalKoans, a Weblog that provides information and commentary about copyright, digital rights management, digital culture, network neutrality, open access, and scholarly electronic publishing issues. DigitalKoans is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. By the end of May 2008, there were over 1,100 DigitalKoans postings.
• Write and publish the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources , and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog. SEPB is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Between October 1996 and December 2007, there were over 7.4 million requests for SEPB files (after 2006, this figure does not include requests for University of Houston Libraries SEPB archive 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 the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography and the Google Book Search Bibliography.
• Wrote and published Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite (2008).
• 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 (see below). The OAB is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. From March 2005 through December 2007, there were over 260,000 requests for OAB files (use statistics for the ARL archive are not available).
• There were over 10.8 million requests for Digital Scholarship Web files from April 2005 through May 2008 and over 2.5 million visitors from 212 countries
• For further information, see: "A Look Back at Nineteen 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.

Brief Description of Duties

• Spearheaded a wide variety of new technology projects, including digital publishing efforts.
• Led the digital library program, including digitization efforts and digital library task forces.
• Wrote (or assisted in writing) technology grant applications that raised over $2.1 million.
• Administered technical support for the Libraries' public computer sites; integrated library system; Web site; Linux, Unix, and Windows servers; staff workstations; and internal network.
• Served in various acting capacities, such as Assistant Director for Public Services, Assistant Dean in charge of Branch Services, assistant to the Associate Director, and Webmaster.

Digital Publishing

• Established and moderated PACS-L (1989-1991), a major mailing list on the Internet and, formerly, on Usenet.
• Founded and acted as Editor-in-Chief of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (1989-1996), one of the first freely available refereed digital journals distributed on the Internet. Authors retained the copyright to their articles, and there were liberal provisions for noncommercial use. The journal was initially published in ASCII format; HTML was added in 1995. Between March 1995 and December 2006, the journal had over 4.2 million successful requests for its Gopher and Web files (see Annual Gopher and Web Use Statistics and the 2006 update for details).
• Established and co-edited Public-Access Computer Systems News (1990-92), an electronic newsletter distributed on the Internet. The newsletter was published in ASCII format.
• Established and managed the PACS-P mailing list (1992-96; 1999-2006).
• Established (1996) and updated the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, a digital book, adding Scholarly Electronic Resources in 1997. Established (2001) and frequently updated the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog.
• Wrote the Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals while on a development leave from January 2004 to September 2004. The bibliography was published in print and PDF formats by the Association of Research Libraries.

Grants, Proposals, and Reports

• Managed the Chemistry Research Information Service Project (1988), a experiment in end-user searching of locally mounted and remote databases funded by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The project also provided document delivery services. Supervised a half-time professional. Conducted the project evaluation and wrote the final report to the funding agency.
• Co-authored with the Director two proposals (1988 and 1989) for a state-wide 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 state-wide system called TexShare, which the Texas legislature funded in 1994.
• Wrote a successful $100,000 grant proposal (1988) to the U.S. Department of Education's College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants Program to create a CD-ROM union catalog for seven libraries that are members of the Houston Area Research Library Consortium.
• Wrote a second successful $99,852 grant proposal (1989) to the U.S. Department of Education's College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants Program to create an Intelligent Reference Information System (IRIS). The IRIS system: (1) provided access to networked CD-ROM databases, and (2) recommended and described appropriate CD-ROM and printed reference resources using an expert system (Reference Expert). Chaired the IRIS Project Management Group that supervised the activities of three working groups. Programmed Reference Expert (written in PDC Prolog) and two system prototypes (written in VP-Expert and PDC Prolog). The achievements of the IRIS Project were recognized by EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT) Program, which selected it as one of 101 outstanding higher education information technology projects that were named Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Stories. Copies of Reference Expert were sent to over 500 libraries and other users worldwide at their request. (See "The Intelligent Reference Information System Project: A Merger of CD-ROM LAN and Expert System Technologies" for details.)
• Assisted the Director in writing successful electronic information grant proposals to the M. D. Anderson Foundation (1991) and the Fondren Foundation (1992) that raised $500,000 and $600,000 respectively.
• Chaired a task force that conducted an in-depth evaluation of major electronic and print publishing trends and their potential impact on the need for a new library wing, which resulted in the Report of the Task Force on Library Space Planning (1996).
• Wrote the library section of a successful campus grant application to the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board (1999) that resulted in a $447,568 award to the library. This grant was used to replace the INNOPAC integrated library system servers, continue the migration to the new version of the ILS (Millennium), add self-checkout units, replace CD-ROM servers, and replace Electronic Publications Center (EPC) workstations and printers.
• Wrote a successful grant application to the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board (2001) that resulted in a $417,269 award to the library. This grant was used to expand a 802.11b wireless Ethernet network in the main library, establish a wireless laptop loan program and wireless classroom, complete the migration to the Millennium system, implement MetaFind and WebBridge, replace the Libraries' Web servers with a server configuration with failover/load balancing capability, implement a ColdFusion development server, replace EPC workstations, replace Ariel workstations, and acquire high-end digital cameras.

Digital Library Task Forces

• Digital Media Derivative Works Task Force (Chair), 2005-2006. Task Force examined copyright issues related to digital materials in depth and recommended policies and procedures for faculty submission of digital objects to electronic reserves.
• Institutional Repository Task Force (Chair), 2005-2006. Task Force investigated issues related to institutional repositories and surveyed ARL libraries regarding their activities in this area. ARL published the results of this survey in Institutional Repositories, SPEC Kit 292.
• Scholarly Communication Public Relations Task Force (Chair), 2005-2006. Task Force created and maintained the Transforming Scholarly Communication Website and its associated Weblog. Organized the campus-wide Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium, which had Ray English, Peter Suber, and Corynne McSherry as speakers.

Electronic Publications Center (EPC)

• In conjunction with Information Services staff, planned and implemented the Electronic Publications Center (1988). The EPC initially had nine CD-ROM products available on seven stand-alone microcomputers.
• Provided extensive technical planning and support for an long-term EPC expansion project. By July 2003, the EPC provided access to over 190 networked electronic resources. There were over 140 EPC workstations.

Integrated Library System

• Oversaw technical support for a Geac Library Information System (GLIS), which served the M. D. Anderson Library and its four branch libraries, the University of Houston Law Library, and the William I. Dykes Library at the University of Houston, Downtown campus. (Assumed these duties in 1990.)
• Prepared an RFP (1993) for an integrated library system to replace the Geac system. Served as Chairperson of the Bid Evaluation Committee (BEC), which had six subordinate task forces. Staff members from the three independent libraries that used the Geac system and the University of Houston's Information Technology Division served on these work groups. Prepared BEC's final report that recommended Innovative Interfaces' INNOPAC system, and facilitated the purchase of this system.
• Chaired the Innovative Interfaces Implementation Committee, which had six subordinate task forces during its peak period of activity (1994-95). Coordinated acceptance testing and system implementation.
• Coordinated INNOPAC system management (1996-1999, 2002).
• Facilitated the migration from INNOPAC to the Innovative Interfaces' Millennium system.
• Oversaw technical support for the integrated library system.

Other Technical Support

• Migrated from a small IBM Token-Ring network to a Cabletron 10Base-T Ethernet, adding switching capability and an FDDI backbone as the size of the network greatly expanded. Initially, utilized NetWare and Meridian CD-ROM servers. Added Unix, Linux, and NT servers to support Internet and Intranet services. Established Windows as a standard user operating system platform, migrated to Windows NT Workstation, and then to Windows 2000. Migrated to Windows 2000 Server. Migrated to an Enterasys switched 100Base-TX Ethernet with a Gigabit Ethernet backbone.
• Programmed Index Expert (1988-90), an expert system that recommended indexes and abstracts (written in Turbo Prolog), and a system prototype (written in the Intelligence/Compiler).
• Acted as the primary system administrator (5/94-5/02) for Linux (mainly RedHat) and UNIX systems (AIX and Solaris). Implemented and maintained a variety of Internet/Intranet server software: Apache Web server, NCSA Web server, perl, O'Reilly WebSite Web server, SWISH-E search engine, University of Minnesota Gopher server, and the wwwstat log analysis program.
• Oversaw development of the Libraries' Internet presence. Established Gopher services in 1994 and Web services in 1995. Oversaw the design and development of the Web site from 1/95 to 7/03, and, in 1/03, its migration from using static HTML pages to dynamic database-driven pages, powered by ColdFusion and SQL Server technologies. This implementation occurred after a highly participative design process, informed by Jakob Nielsen's design principles, that included significant usability testing. Due to staff shortages, had direct Webmaster responsibilities for 30 months in addition to normal duties (see below).
• Led the Libraries digitization effort, which primarily focused on Special Collections digital exhibits.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Established the Systems Division (1987) and the Systems Department (1990). Reorganized the Systems Division into the Computer Systems and Networking Department and the Digital and Integrated Library Systems Department (2002). As of July 2003, there were ten exempt technical support or librarian positions in these two departments. At that time, the Systems Division supported about 500 Windows 2000/XP workstations; a Gigabit Ethernet/100Base-TX network in the main library, and over 25 Windows NT/2000, NetWare, Linux, UNIX, or CD-ROM servers (there were two public Windows 2000/Apache/ColdFusion/SQL Server Web servers).
• Acting Assistant Dean for Public Services (1/97-3/98). Administered Information Services (composed of Electronic Resources, Electronic Services, Government Documents, Library Instruction, and Reference) and Branch Services (composed of the Architecture and Art Library, the Music Library, the Optometry Library, and the Pharmacy Library). Supervised over 30 staff members, including 13 librarians. (Did not have responsibility for Special Collections and Archives.)
• Acting Coordinator of Library Web Services (10/98-9/2000). Developed and maintained UH Libraries Internet Web site, including all Web page design; content editing; HTML editing, coding, and validation; graphics production, including image mapping; CGI Perl Web form programming, Web server installation and maintenance, and log analysis. Redesigned Internet site to improve appearance and simplify navigation. Converted Special Collections and Archives' finding aids and subject guides to HTML. Managed the UH Libraries Intranet Web server. Solely responsible for Website during this period.
• Acting Assistant Dean in charge of Branch Services (9/99-3/00).
• Acting Head, Digital and Integrated Library Systems Department (8/02-12/02). Administered the Libraries' Internet and intranet Web sites, the Innovative Interfaces Millennium system, and digital initiatives.
• Acting Webmaster (1/03-7/03). Managed the Libraries' Internet and intranet Web sites, including database design, content editing, HTML coding, and supervision of HTML coding and validation, ColdFusion/JavaScript/SQL programming, graphics production, Web server installation and maintenance, and log analysis. Also directly responsible for digital initiatives.
• Assisted the Associate Director with budget planning and other library-wide administrative duties (8/03-12/03).

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 and Honors

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. (Supplement to the March 15, 2003 issue of Library Journal.)

Special Achievement Award, University of Houston Libraries, 1998.

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.

Degrees

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).

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-present.

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 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

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