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