Shirley Baker

Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources and Dean of Libraries

HOME ADDRESS

6310 Alexander Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130

WORK ADDRESS

Washington University
Campus Box 1061
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
(314) 935-5400
Fax: (314) 935-4045
E-mail: shirley.baker@wustl.edu
www.wustl.edu/baker

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
MA, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1974
MA, Library Science, 1974

Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
BA, Economics, 1965

EMPLOYMENT

Washington University.
St. Louis, Missouri, Dean of University Libraries, 1989-present; Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, 1995-present

Accomplishments as Dean

Collections: Through licenses for electronic journals, quadrupled the number of journals accessed. With membership in the Greater Western Library Alliance, achieved economies of scale in licensing. Maintained purchasing power for books, primarily through increased use of endowed funds. Strengthened special collections through the addition of a major collection of fine press materials; added papers of author William Gaddis to already-strong modern literary manuscripts collection. Acquired, through a competitive grant process, the archives of Henry Hampton, Jr., best known for his Eyes on the Prize film series documenting the Civil Rights movement. Built collection in support of emerging film studies program (now 33,000 films) with endowment support.

Services: Reach every first-year student through librarian-taught resource discovery sessions as integral part of required Writing and Argumentation course. Fifteen librarians guide 50 classes of first year students through the research process with hands-on sessions. Co-sponsor in collaboration with the Teaching Center two-day ITeach workshops to assist faculty in using technology in their teaching. Support electronic reserves for assigned class readings and music and streaming video recordings of class lectures. Provide advice and guidance remotely through the Chat with a Librarian.

Facilities: Redefined Olin Library, the 180,000 sq. ft. main library and, from 2001 to 2004, oversaw the complete renovation of the library without disruption of services. In 1997 raised funds for and created, in collaboration with School of Art and Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book. Classes in the Studio are among the most heavily subscribed in the School of Art. In 1991 created West Campus Library for lesser-used materials and Conference Center in former department store. Moved University Archives in 1998 and four technical services departments in 2001 to West Campus. In 2001 created at film archive at West Campus. Between 1990 and 2000, upgraded facilities in seven departmental libraries. Planned new Earth & Planetary Sciences Library now under construction and new Art & Architecture Library to be competed in 2006.

Professional: Under the Aegis of the Association of Research Libraries, led North American effort to maximize capacity for libraries to share resources with maximum ease and speed and at minimal cost. Our efforts were widely studied and copied both in Europe and in Australia and Japan.

Within Missouri, spearheaded an effort to establish expedited resource sharing among institutions. With 57 Missouri educational institutions in MOBIUS, instituted reciprocal borrowing. All members of MOBIUS - institutions large and small - gain from the Consortium. Washington University annually lends about 9,000 volumes to other MOBIUS institutions and borrows 10,000. MOBIUS supports resource sharing at ten times the speed and 1/10th the cost of traditional interlibrary loan.

Chaired a North American ARL/ACRL Task Force on Recruitment. That task force produced a recruitment video, Faces of a Profession, which is being distributed nationally (and can be viewed at www.library.wustl.edu/whatsnew/newrecruit.html).

Accomplishments as Vice Chancellor

Led University-wide technology planning effort. Spearheaded the creation and implementation of University technology policies. Oversaw creation and management of the University's web presence through multiple iterations, drawing on the editorial expertise of University Public Affairs. Led implementation of common email addressing for the University.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Associate Director for Public Services, 1982-1989

Accomplishments

Hired 26 of the 40 librarians in public services; changed focus of library activities from internal processes to user needs and services. Created links between the Libraries and computing services and served as liaison with those organizations.

Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Baltimore, Maryland, Access Librarian and Research Libraries Group Coordinator, 1976-82

Northwestern University, Library, Evanston, Illinois, Librarian, 1974-76

L. Myers Company, Chicago, Illinois, Computer programmer, 1970-71

Peace Corps Volunteer, Bihar, India, 1967-69

American Telephone and Telegraph, Long Lines, White Plains, New York, Data Processing Manager, 1965-67

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Resource Sharing

Chair, Association of Research Libraries Task Force on Collections and Access Issues, 2002-2003

Member, Executive Committee, MOBIUS consortium of Missouri academic libraries, 1998-2001, Chair, 1999-2000

Members Council Representative for Missouri Library Network Corporation, OCLC, 2003-2006

Member, Center for Research Libraries Board, 1994-2000, Budget and Finance Committee, 1992-2000

Member, Board of Governors, Missouri Research Consortium of Libraries (MIRACL), 1996-

Chair, OCLC Interlibrary Loan Interoperability Task Force, 1999

Member Association of Research Libraries Access to Research Resources Committee, 1990-1998, and chair, 1994-1998

Chair, Association of Research Libraries' oversight committee for the North American Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Project, 1993-1998

Library and University Technology

Member Washington University School of Medicine Information Technology Committee, 2004-

Member, OCLC Members Council, and Member, Digital Libraries and Research Interest Group, 2003-2006, and Chair, 2004-2006; Member, Research Advisory Committee, 2004-2006

Chair, Washington University Common Email Addressing Task Force, 2001-2003

Chair, Search Committee for Executive Director, Missouri Library Network Corporation, 2003 and 1993

Member, Board of Directors, St. Louis Internet Access Consortium (SLIAC), 2002-

Co-chair, Washington University Digital Archives Task Force, 2002-

Member, Washington University School of Medicine Associate Dean/Chief Information Officer Search Committee, 2001

Chair, Washington University Information Security Task Force, 2000-2001

Member, Missouri Digitization Planning Committee, 2000-, chair, 2004-

Chair, Washington University Web Task Force, 1999-2001

Board member, Missouri Library Network Corporation Board, 1991-2001, Board vice president 1992-1995, president, 1995-1998

Member, Steering Committee for Coalition for Networked Information, 1999-2002

University representative, EduCause, 1995-

Member, Online Computer Library Center's Research Libraries Advisory Committee, 1994-1999, and chair, 1996-97

Member, Steering Group for revamping Washington University's Computing and Communications unit, 1994-95

Member, Board of Directors, National Information Standards Organization, 1990-1994

Member, MIT Information Systems Strategic Plan Advisory Council, 1986-89

Scholarly Communication

Member, PubMed Central National Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health, 2005-2008

Member, Advisory Board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a collaborative program of Canadian universities to provide access to digital publications for the academic community nation-wide, 2005-

Director, BioOne, a public/private collaboration to publish bioscience research journals, 1999-2007, and chair, BioOne Library Advisory Group, 2003-

Collaborator and co-signer, American Association of Universities' and Association of Research Libraries' Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing, 2000

Member, Association of Research Libraries Research Collections Committee, 2001-2004, Scholarly Communication Committee, 1999-2001

Founding Member, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 1998

Other Professional Activities

Member, Association of Research Libraries Task Force on New Ways of Measuring Collections, 2005

Member, Missouri Secretary of State's Council on Library Development, 2003-2006

Co-chair, Association of Research Libraries/Association of College and Research Libraries Joint Task Force for Recruitment into the Profession, 2002-2003

President, Association of Research Libraries, 2000-2001, and member, Board of Directors, 1996-2002

Member, Association of College and Research Libraries Focus on the Future Task Force, 2001-2003

Member, Advisory Council on the Library, Brown University, 2003-2006

External Reviewer, University of Pennsylvania Library, 1999

External Reviewer, Carnegie-Mellon University Library, 1999

Senior Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Library and Information Science, 1991

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Member, Task Force on the Future Organization of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, 2004

Member, Washington University Sesquicentennial Commission and Chair, Sesquicentennial Exhibits Committee, 2002-2004

Member, University Art Collections and Program Committee, 2002-

Member, Washington University Council, 1995-

Member, St. Louis Forum, 1996-

Member, Washington University Chancellor Search Committee, 1994-95

Member, Washington University Management Team, 1993- 1995; chair, Steering Group, 1994-95

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Resource Sharing

Co-author, Collections and Access for the 21st Century Scholar: Changing Roles of Research Libraries, in ARL: A Monthly Report on Library Issues and Actions. December 2002

Change, Change, and More Change, keynote at First National Conference on Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2001

Standards and Resource Sharing, keynote at the Michigan Library Consortium Annual Meeting, 2000

Working Yourself Out of a Job; or How to Survive in the Resource Sharing Future, keynote at OCLC/ARL Symposium on the Future of Resource Sharing, American Library Association, 1999

The Future is Now: Purchase Anxiety, presented at the American Library Association, meeting, January 1996; published in video and print by OCLC, 1996

Editor, The Future of Resource Sharing, with Mary E. Jackson, Haworth Press, 1995

Resource Sharing: Putting It All in Perspective, in Technical Services Quarterly, volume 16, number 2, 1998, pp. 47-56

White Paper, Maximizing Access, Minimizing Cost; a First Step Toward the Information Access Future, with Mary E. Jackson, for the Association of Research Libraries, November 1992, published by request in several journals

Scholarly Communication

SPARC: Igniting Change in Scholarly Communication, keynote at Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER), London, July 2001

Library and University Technology

New Opportunities for Research Libraries in Digital Information and Knowledge Management: Challenges for the Mid-sized Research Library; or, Hurry Up and Wait, presented at Digital Information and Knowledge Management: New Opportunities for Research Libraries, March 2005

The Information Technology and Scholarly Communication; the Role of the Internet and the Web, Washington University International Advisory Council, New Delhi, India, March 2001

Eternal Verities and Rampant Uncertainty, keynote at Dutch Universities and Scholarly Information in the 21st Century, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2000

OCLC and Its Advisory Committees, in OCLC 1967-1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information, K. Wayne Smith, editor. Haworth Press, 1998

Managing Technology, Managing Technologists, presented at the Texas conference on Library Automation, 1997

Library/Computer Center Cooperation: Some Critical Questions, in Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference of the Library and Information Technology Association, 1988

The MIT Libraries and Project Athena in Proceedings of the Conference on Integrated Online Library Systems, 1984

Other Professional Publications

Leading from Below, or, Risking Getting Fired, presented at the American Library Association annual meeting, June 1994; published in Library Administration and Management, Fall 1995

Strategic Planning for Libraries in the Electronic Age in International Association of Technological University Libraries Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1990