Curriculum Vitae

Bonnie J. MacEwan

EDUCATION:

M.A. Librarianship 1978

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

  B.A. English 1972

Whittier College
Whittier, California

Additional Russian Studies:

University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Kansas
University of Aberdeen, Scotland (Direct Exchange Scholarship)

Responsibilities include: developing and implementing collection policies; assessing collection strengths and weaknesses; identifying immediate and long-term collection development goals; fostering the growth of the collection management skills of the Libraries’ faculty; assuring direct dialogue on collection concerns between faculty throughout the University and the Libraries; participating in divisional and Libraries wide planning, policy making and budget preparation activities; overseeing the acquisition and processing of gifts; working directly with the Development Officer to contribute to the long and short range development goals of the Libraries; and representing the Libraries’ collection development concerns and interests in various national and regional consortia and programs.

Chair of the Collection Development Committee. Responsibilities included: Preparing the firm order monograph budget; surveying the faculty; allocating a $2 million one-time-only acquisitions fund; managing a collection analysis project (NCIP); planning and implementing a $100,000 serials cut in 1987 and a $150,000 cut in 1988; coordinating Collection Development activities with Acquisitions; and regularly meeting with the Director to advise her on collection development matters.

Art, Archaeology and Music Librarian. Responsibilities included: collection development; faculty liaison; online searching; reference service and library instruction in the areas of Music, Art, Archaeology, and Anthropology; supervision of the services of the Recorded Sound Collection and Library Services for the Disabled. Staff included two Library Assistants and student assistants. AAM Library materials included valuable art books, musical scores, recordings and audio equipment.

Responsibilities included faculty liaison, collection development, reference service, bibliographic instruction, and supervision of the Humanities Area of the library.

Additional responsibilities were:

Online Reference Service Coordinator: Establishing policy and procedures; circulating and filing new materials; developing a filing system; conducting searchers’ meetings; maintaining the search log; writing annual reports; and acting as a resource for searchers.

International Studies Coordinator: A special appointment by the Vice President for Student Affairs and Provost to assist them in developing and implementing an International Studies program. This was a new position.

Also taught formal University courses: Use of the Library; Understanding the Soviet Union Through its Theatre (taught the literature segment of an interdisciplinary course); Russian I and Russian II.

Collaborated with other faculty to develop a multidisciplinary, multi-cultural course. Also a member of the Women’s Studies Committee, charged with developing a Women’s Studies minor and identifying outside funding.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATION, PRESENTATIONS, AND CREATIVE ENDEAVORS

Henderson, Tona and Bonnie MacEwan. "Electronic Collections and Wired Faculty." Library Trends 45(3):488-498(1997).

MacEwan, Bonnie and Peggy Johnson, editors. "Special Section on Copyright." Library Acquisitions Practices & Theory 21:1(1997). Solicited and edited five articles and wrote the introduction. Scheduled for publication.

MacEwan, Bonnie and Mira Geffner. "The CIC Electronic Journals Collection Project." Serials Librarian. (Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group Meeting, June 20-June 23, 1996). Expected Spring 1997.

MacEwan, Bonnie and Mira Geffner. "The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Electronic Journals Collection (CIC-EJC): A New Model for Library Management of Scholarly Journals Published on the Internet." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7(4) (1996).

MacEwan, Bonnie and Peggy Johnson, (editors). Collection Management and Development: Issues in an Electronic Era. Proceedings of the advanced Collection Management and Development Institute March 26-28, 1993. Chicago, ALA.

MacEwan, Bonnie. "Projecting Increases Needed to Maintain the Materials Budget: One Libraries’ Story". In Collection Management and Development: Issues in an Electronic Era. Edited by Bonnie MacEwan and Peggy Johnson. Proceedings of the Advanced Collection Management and Development Institute March 26-28, 1993. American Library Association, Chicago, 1994.

"Serials Review and Budget Planning." EBSCO Academic Librarian Seminar, Birmingham, April 23, 1993.

"Projecting Increases to Maintain the Materials Budget." Advanced Collection Management and Development Institute. Chicago, March 28, 1993.

MacEwan, Bonnie and Carol Chamberlain. "An Interview with Sandy Thatcher." Library Acquisitions & Theory 17:203-225(1993).

"Highlights of the ALCTS Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group." Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory. 16(1):51-55 (1992).

"Demystifying Collections and Gifts". Presentation at the Canadian Collection Management and Development Institute, Toronto, 1992.

"The Reality of Collection Evaluation: Facts, Myths, and Practices (Report of the AMIGOS Special Workshop)". Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory. 16(1)51-55 (1992).

"An Overview of Collection Assessment and Evaluation" in Collection Management for the 1990s. Edited by J. Branin. American Library Association, Chicago. 1992:95-104.

"Performance Evaluation of Selectors/Bibliographers in Academic Libraries". Presentation with Dana Rooks. Sponsored by Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group. ALA, Chicago, January 12, 1991.

"Reality of Collection Evaluation: Facts, Myths, and Practices". Workshop with George Soete. Sponsored by the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Dallas, November 29-30, 1990.

"The North American Collection Inventory Project: A Tool for Selection Education and Communication". Library Acquisitions Practice & Theory, 13:45-50, 1989.

"Collection Assessment and Evaluation". Presentation at the Collection Management and Development Institute, Chicago, 1989.

"Undergraduates’ Success in Locating Books in a Large Academic Library". Poster Session with Jan Rice and others, ACRL, Cincinnati, 1989.

The Pennsylvania State University Committees

Professional memberships:

American Library Association, 1980-present

Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (formerly Resources and Technical Services Division), 1987-present

Collection Management and Development Institute Planning Committee, 1987-1989
Canadian Collection Management and Development Institute Planning Committee, 1990-1992
Search Committee for Library Resource and Technical Services editor, 1995-1996
Collection Management and Development Committee, 1990-1991

Nominating Committee, 1991-1992
Administration of Collection Development Committee, 1991-present; Chair, 1993-1994
Advanced Collection Management and Development Institute Planning Committee, 1991-1994; Co-chair, 1993-1994

ALCTS/RASD National Institute Planning Committee, 1996-present

Reference and Adult Services Division, 1980-present

Nominating Committee, Chair, 1993-1995
Conference Program Committee (San Francisco, 1997), 1995-1997
Collection Development Section, 1988-present

Computer-based Methods and Resources, 1988-1991; Chair, 1989-1991
Program Planning Committee, 1990
Nominating Committee, 1990
Publications Committee, 1991-1992
Program Planning Committee, 1992-1993
Secretary (elected), 1992-1994

Committee on Institutional Cooperation

Task Force on Preservation and Digital Technology, 1995-present
Task Force on the Electronic Collection, 1995-present; Chair 1996-present
Chief Collection Development Officers, 1991-present; Chair 1993-1995

Editorial Boards

Library Resources and Technical Services, 1994-present
Penn State Press, 1992-1994
Library Acquisitions: Practices & Theory, 1991-present