Richard W. Meyer

Full Curriculum Vitae

Responsibilities and Services

Dean of library faculty and director of libraries, managing a total staff of 120, serving a comprehensive technological university. Support for the instructional and research efforts of 22,000 students, faculty and staff. Directing library operations budgeted at $12 million.

Research Interests/Selected Publications

Publications

Richard W. Meyer and Tyler Walters. “Sowing an Old Field with a New Crop: Collaborative Services of Libraries and Other Campus Units.” In Convergence with Academic Library Services, edited by Ron Powell and Peter Hernon. In Press, 2008.

Richard W. Meyer. “The Times, They are a Changing: Keeping up is Tough to do.” The Galileo Planet (Summer 2005): 6, 8.

---. Addressing the Cultural Dimensions of the Convergence of Computing and Library Staffs. Washington, DC: ARL, 2002. 5 Pp.  http://www.arl.org/collectaccess/CAmeyer.html.

---. “The Educational Epicenter.” The Classroom (Spring 2002): 9-10. 
http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/27/1/classroomS2002.pdf  … page 9.

---. “A Tool to Assess Journal Price Discrimination.” College and Research Libraries 62/3 (May 2001): 269-288. [ALCTS/Blackwell Scholarship Award: Outstanding … Article for 2001. Presented at ALA Annual Meeting, June 2002.] 
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues2001b/may01/meyer.pdf

Richard W. Meyer and Mary Jane Mayo. Alumni Outreach by University Libraries
ARL Occasional Paper #22. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2001. 38 Pp. http://www.arl.org/op/op22.html  … summary only.
 
Richard W. Meyer. "Consortial Access Versus Ownership." In Technology and Scholarly Communication, edited by Richard Ekman and Richard Quandt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. 223-249. 

---. "A Measure of the Impact of Tenure."  College and Research Libraries 60/2 (March 1999): 110-119. [ACRL/K.G. Saur Award: Best Article in College and Research Libraries, 1999. Presented at ALA Annual Meeting, July 2000.]
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues1999b/march99/meyer.pdf .

---. "Monopoly Power and Electronic Journals." Library Quarterly 67/4 (October 1997): 325-349.

---. "Surviving the Change: The Economic Paradigm of Higher Education in Transformation." Journal of Academic Librarianship 23/4 (July 1997): 291-301.

---. "The Cataloger's Future: a Director's View." Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 23/4 (Summer 1997): 195-204. Reprinted in Cataloging and Classification: Trends, Transformations, Teaching and Training, edited by James R. Shearer and Alan R. Thomas. New York: Haworth Press, 1997. Pp. 195-204.

Professional Affiliations

Atlanta / Georgia

  • Georgia Public Library Service, Strategic Planning Team, January-December 2007
  • Solinet, Board of Directors, May 2004-2007
  • Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education, Library Directors, 2001-present
  • Regents Academic Committee on Libraries, 2001- present; Chair, 2004-05
  • Galileo Steering Committee, 2002 – 2006; Chair, 2004-05
  • United Way of Atlanta, Library Campaign Chair, 2000-present

Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Georgia Tech Total Compensation Advisory Board, 2007-present
  • Georgia Tech Classroom Technology Implementation Task Force, 2006-present
  • Georgia Tech Human Resources Advisory Board, 2006 - present
  • Georgia Tech Best Practices Screening Committee, 2006
  • Associate Vice Provost for Distance Learning and Professional Education Search Committee, Chair, 2003
  • Institute Budget and Planning Committee, 2002-2003
  • Georgia Tech Advisory Committee on Technology Enhanced Education, 2002 - present
  • Academic Service Committee, Distance Learning Intellectual Property Rights Subcommittee (ad hoc), 2001-2002
  • Provost’s Task Force on Continuing and Technology-Enhanced Education (ad hoc), 2001-2002; and, Enhanced Learning Subcommittee, 2001-2002
  • Board of Regents, OIIT Strategic Planning, Strategic Objectives Team (ad hoc), 2002
  • ILRC Planning Board, 2000-present

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Reaffirmation Visitation Review Teams

  • Instituto Tecnologico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey, Mexico (Substantive Change), May 2003
  • Troy State University (Substantive Change), February 2003
  • Appalachian State University, April 2002
  • Stetson University, February 2001
  • Washington and Lee University, March 1999

Education

Master of Arts in Economics :: 1986
Clemson University

Master of Science in Library Science :: 1970
University of Illinois

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry :: 1967
University of Missouri

Bachelor of Arts in Library Science :: 1967
University of Missouri

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