| BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHNancy R. John
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Nancy John is Digital Publishing Librarian and Associate Professor Emerita at the University Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA (Box 8198 M/C 234, Chicago IL 60680 USA; email: nrj@uic.edu). She retired from the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2005; at UIC, she has held the titles of Catalog Librarian, Assistant University Librarian, Manager of Library Systems and Interim University Librarian. From 1974-78 she was catalog librarian at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. She received her MLS from UCLA in 1973 and a B.A. (Psychology) from Stanford University in 1969.
Research Interests
Information dissemination and retrieval, public policy as it affects access to information, economics of electronic information, empowerment of citizenry via access to Internet, open access and open content. Her current projects are helping to organize the First Monday 10th anniversary conference FM10 Openness, May 15-17, 2005 and working on her newest book Digital Libraries: Not Quite at Your Fingerprints.
American Library Association (ALA) Service:
Prof. John currently serves as member of the Library Information and Technology Association (LITA) International Relations Committee. She is a past President of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services, past chair of the Cataloging and Classification Section, past chair of the International Relations Round Table and the ALA International Relations Committee and member of many ALA committees during her 32 years as a member of the Association. She was Chair of the ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society/North America) in 1977-78.
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Service:
Prof. John served on the IFLA Standing Committee on Cataloguing, 1987-1995, serving as secretary (1987-89) and chair (1989-93). She was chair of the Division of Bibliographic Control and served on the IFLA Professional Board (1989-93). From 1991-93, she chaired the IFLA Committee on Copyright. In 1995, she co-founded IFLA's Internet Discussion Group. She was elected a member of the Executive Board of the IFLA in 1997-2001, serving as 2nd Vice-President (1997-1999), chair of the Conference Planning Committee (1997-99) and as 1st Vice-President of IFLA (1999-2001).
International work:
In 1996, she was Internet Advisor and Consultant to the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the first North American editor of the distinguished library and information science journal Libri, published by K.G. Saur (Munich). She has been named one of the nation's "Internet digerati" twice by the weekly magazine Computerworld. Prof. John has lectured widely throughout the United States, as well as in Armenia, Austria, the Bahamas, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. In October 1997, Nancy John co-taught a daylong seminar on the Internet and issues of public policy and democracy for the Latvian Parliament (Saeima) held in Riga. For this work, she and her colleague were given the Saeima's medal of recognition. Because of the success of this activity, the program was repeated in Vilnius, Lithuania in June 1998. She participated for IFLA in the UNESCO-sponsored InfoETHICS '98 and the UNESCO/ICSU 2nd Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science (2001). In June 2000, she was one of the keynote speakers at the ACURIL 2000 conference held in The Bahamas. Prof. John is included Who's Who in America (2000-2006) and Who's Who in the World (2001, 2003).
Awards:
Esther J. Piercy Award, ALA, 1982
John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award, ALA, 2002
Women with Vision Award, Women's Bar Association of Illinois, November, 2005
Grants:
IMLS, Web-Wise 2004, $159,000
IMLS, Web-Wise 2005, $200,000
Recent Publications
"Digital repositories: Not Quite at Your Fingertips," Libri 55 (4), December 2005: 181-197.
"Information Policies and Open Access: Internet Publishing Makes Headlines in 2004," (with Edward J. Valauskas) Bowker Annual, v. 50 (2005): 232-238.
"Digital Journals in 2003: Dramatic Growth, New Tools and Economic Drama" (with E. J. Valauskas) Bowker Annual v. 49 (2004)
"10 Myth about PDAs Ð Debunked!" (with Dennis C. Tucker), Computers in Libraries (March 2003): 26-30.
"Bodyguard and Breaking Down Barriers: Fostering Civil Society in the South Caucasus," published in International Leads, a publication of the International Relations Round Table of the American Library Association, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December 2002), pp 4.
"Library", article/entry in World Book Yearbook 2000, 2001, 2002.
"The Ethics of the Click," Libri 50(2, 2000): 129-135.
"Providing Outsourced Internet Services to a Government Agency" IFLA Journal, 25 (2, 1999), 87-89.
"Libraries and the global information infrastructure" Proceedings INFOEthics '98.
"Putting Content on to the Internet," First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.org), August 1996.
"Enriching the Internet," Proceedings CAUSE '96.
The Internet Initiative with E. Valauskas. (Chicago, ALA Editions, 1995)
The Internet Troubleshooter with E. Valauskas. (Chicago: ALA Editions, 1994)
Presentations
Welcome to the Global Information Bazaar, May, 1994
Health Sciences Enrichment Program: The Dynamic Network Association, July 1994
The Internet Troubleshooters Look at the Internet, September, 1994
Looking towards the 1996 Elections: A Librarian's Viewpoint, Chicago, Illinois, October, 1994
27 January 2006
URL:http://www.uic.edu/~nrj/index.html