Vicki L. Gregory
Professor
University of South Florida,
Ph.D. (1987), Rutgers, The
Teaching
Specializations: Academic
libraries, all areas of technical services, information science, library
networking, library automation, and collection development.
Education
- Ph.D.
in Communication, Library, and Information Studies, Rutgers, The
- M.L.S.
in Library Service,
- M.A.
in History,
- A.B.
in History,
Research
Research interests include
electronic communication, copyright and intellectual property, and the effect
of the state on libraries (funding and services). She has three books,
including The State and the Academic Library published by
Greenwood Press, Multicultural Resources on the Internet: the United States
and Canada published by Libraries Unlimited, and her latest is Selecting
and Managing Electronic Resources (revised edition) published by Neal-Schuman
in 2005. She is currently working on a textbook entitled Introduction to Collection Development and Management to be
published by Neal-Schuman.
She has worked with Associate Professor Nahyun Kwon on a research paper
entitled "The Effects of Librarians' Behavioral Performance on User
Satisfaction in Chat Reference Services" which was published
in Reference & User Services Quarterly 46, no.2 (Winter
2007): 33-44.
She has published several papers in the area
of electronic copyright, UCITA, and intellectual property issues. An article
entitled UCITA:What Does it Mean for
Libraries? was published in the January 2001 issue
of Online. A paper, presented at the ACRL National
Conference in Nashville, on electronic copyright and intellectual property issues
is entitled: Delivery
of Information Via the World Wide Web She also delivered a paper at the
Tenth National ACRL Conference in Denver entitled Problems Presented by
the Uniform Information Transactions Act (UCITA): Respecting the Use of
Electronic Materials (March 17, 2001). Powerpoint
Presentation used at ACRL is also available on the Web.
Given her involvement with web-based distance
education, she gave a talk comparing WebCT and Blackboard at the 2000 ASIS
Conference. The PowerPoint presentation is available on the Web Blackboard vs.
WebCT. She is currently working on a book with Diane Austin on the use of
virtual communities in distance education.
In October 2000, she and Anna Perrault
presented a paper entitled Think Global, Act
Local: The Challenges of Taking the Website Global at the SLA International
Conference in
In October 2001, Gregory and Wohlmuth
presented "Planning for the Internationalization of a Postgraduate Degree
Program" at the Sixth Annual Conference of Global Alliance for
Transnational Education (GATE) in
In February 2005, Gregory and Austin
presented a paper entitled Communication of
Institutional Knowledge and Professional Interaction in a Virtual Community of
Students and Faculty in
A research paper that was initially given at a Learning Conference in
In October 2005, Gregory presented a paper
for SARCIII on virtual communities in organizations Virtual
Communities: Within and Beyond Organizational Boundaries .
In July 2006, she presented with Kiersten Cox
“Gender
and Cultural Differences in Communication Preferences in Graduate Education”
at the Interdisciplinary Conference in the Social Sciences in
In October 2006,
she presented “Digital Rights Management and E-Learning” at the Conference on the Book
in
In July, 2008, she presented a paper at the
Third Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference in
Professional Activities
She is active in numerous
professional associations including being the current Treasurer of ASIST, and
before that she was the SIG Cabinet Director of ASIST for 2003-2007. She is currently serving on the ALA Committee
on Accreditation. She has served as a Member at Large of the ALA LRRT
Steering Committee. She has served as the ALA Councilor for the Florida Library
Association and served on the Board. She has also a Director of the Florida
Library Association from 2001-2003, a past Chair of the Florida ASIST Chapter,
past Chair of ASIS SIG-LAN, a past Chair of the ACRL Academic/Research
Librarian of the Year Award Committee, a past Secretary-Treasurer of the
Library Research Round Table Steering Committee and past chair of the ACRL
Research Committee.
Vicki L. Gregory can be contacted at: gregory@shell.cas.usf.edu