Vicki L. Gregory

Director and Professor
Ph.D. (1987), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Teaching

Specializations: Academic libraries, all areas of technical services, information science, library networking, library automation, and collection development.

Course Syllabi

Digital Libraries LIS 5937 (Summer 2005)

Information Science in Librarianship LIS6260(Spring 2002)

Collection Development and Maintenance LIS6511 (Fall 2004)

Education

Ph..D. in Communication, Library, and Information Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
M.L.S. in Library Service, University of Alabama
M.A. in History, University of Alabama
A.B. in History, University of Alabama

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 latestis Selecting and Managing Electronic Resources published byNeal-Schuman.

In 1998 (with Kathleen de la Pena McCook), 1999 and 2000 Better Pay, More Job (with Sonia Wohlmuth), she was the lead author on the Library Journal Salary and Placement survey article published in the October15th issue of Library Journal. In 2001, Plenty of Jobs, Salaries Flat , she was second author (with Tom Terrell first author).

She has published several papers in the area of electronic copyright, UCITA, and intellectual property issues . A recent 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 propertyissues 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 Brighton, England. The paper was subsequently published in Inspel vol. 34, nos.3/4 (2000), pp. 227-237.

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 San Jose, Costa Rica.

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 Algarve, Portugal.

In October 2005, Gregory presented a paper for SARCIII on virtual communities in organizations Virtual Communities: Within and Beyond Organizational Boundaries

ProfessionalActivities

She is active in numerous professional associations including being the SIG Cabinet Director of ASIST for 2003-2005 and a Member at Large of the ALA LRRT Steering Committee. She has been 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@luna.cas.usf.edu