Rena K. Fowler

 

Dean of Libraries

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

e-mail:  rfowler@iup.edu

voice:   724-357-2330

fax:       724-357-4891

 

 

Recent Professional Activities and Presentations:

 

Spring 2003, University of Pittsburgh

LIS 2771, Academic Library Management

 

ACRL, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Chair, 2000-2002; member, continuing

ACRL, University Library Section, Program Committee, San Francisco, 1999-2001

LAMA, Human Resources Section, Publications Committee, Chair, 2002-2003, member 2000-2003.

 

Pennsylvania Department of Education, evaluator for university status, Fall 2000

Middle States Association, Commission on Higher Education, evaluator, Spring 2001

 

University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, Visiting Lecturer for workshop:  Becoming a Learning Organization, July 2000.

 

Project Director, Indiana and Armstrong Alliance for Libraries, LSTA grant for 2003-2004 for $31,500 awarded to IUP on behalf of the Alliance, a group of public, school, and university libraries seeking to from a consortium for professional development and cooperation.

 

Project Director, “SSHELCO Electronic Preservation Project,” LSTA grant in 2000-2001 for $97,500 awarded to IUP on behalf of the 14 State System for Higher Education (SSHE) university libraries and Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania to initiate the digitization of archival materials and dissemination of significant documents via the web to State citizens.

 

Presenter, Mid-Atlantic Voyager User’s Group Meeting, 2001, Millersville, PA,  “LSTA Image Server Grant.”

 

Panelist, Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia Chapter of ACRL, 2001, Pittsburgh PA, “Fundamentals of Academic Librarianship, Technical Services.”

 

Publications:

 

Fowler, Rena.  “The University Library as Learning Organization for Innovation:  An   Exploratory Study,” College & Research Libraries 59 (3), May 1998.

 

Fowler, Rena.  “Rural Development through Cooperative Automation:  The Case of the Upper Peninsula Region of Library Cooperation, Inc.,” Resource Sharing and Information Networks, 6 (2), Spring 1991.

 

Fowler, Rena, et al.  Assessment of Library Skills and Traits of Entering and Lower Level English Students, Northern Michigan University, Olson Library.  Marquette, Mich.: Northern Michigan University Library; Urbana, Ill.:  Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries; 1990.  ERIC Document 339 370.

 

Research Interests:

 

Management of libraries and information centers

Technology and innovation in libraries

Information literacy 

 

Professional Memberships:

 

American Library Association (ALA)

American Association for Higher Education (AAHE)

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA)

Western Pennsylvania Chapter of ACRL

 

Education:

 

Coe College, Iowa:  1963 - 1965

Colorado College, Colo.:  1965 - 1967, B.A. - History

Columbia University, N.Y.:  1968 - 1969, M.S. - School of Library Service

University of Chicago:  1973 - 1974, M.A. - History (Russian)

University of Michigan:  1988 - 1997, Ph.D. - School of Information and Library Studies; Dissertation entitled:  The University Library as Learning Organization for Innovation