Beth Sandore Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy

246A Library

1408 W. Gregory Dr.

University of  Illinois

Urbana, IL  61801

Tel.  217.333.2592

Fax  217.244.4358

Net  sandore@uiuc.edu

Personal History and Professional Experience

Educational Background

1980                 B. A., Linguistics, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.

1984                 A. M., Graduate Library School, The University of Chicago.

Professional Experience

Academic Positions

1984-85             Reference and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

1985-94      Assistant Automated Services Librarian, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois.

1988-89      Acting Circulation Librarian and Asst. Automated Services Librarian, University of Illinois.

1992           Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor, University of Illinois.

1994           Coordinator, Digital Imaging Initiative, Associate Professor, University of Illinois.

1999                      Head, Digital Imaging and Media Technology Initiative, Associate Professor.  University of Illinois.

2000                      Promoted to Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois.

2001                      Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy and Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

·         Administer Library information technology programs across a large decentralized research library system, including network and desktop support, production systems and databases, digital library initiatives, and new technology programs and services;

·         Responsible for collaboratively planning and administering Library IT budget with IT units; participate regularly in Library budget planning activities;

·         Develop, initiate and oversee implementation of new technology programs and services;

·         Collaborate with administrative counterparts for Collections and Services and numerous groups to ensure the delivery of effective and forward-looking services and resources.

·         Represent Library IT needs and interests in campus, regional, and national organizations.

·         Responsible for the coordination of grant-seeking activities within the Library.

Other Professional Employment

1983-4        Research Assistant, Council on Library Resources funded research project,

      Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL.

1990-93      Visiting Lecturer, Emporia State University School of Library and Information

                  Management. 

1993           Visiting Professor, Forschungszentrum Jülich Research Institute Library, Germany      (September-November, 1993, sabbatical leave).

1994           Visiting Librarian, National Agricultural Library, Automation Division,

                  Beltsville, Maryland (March, 1994, sabbatical leave).

1995           Consultant.  U. S. Air Force, Air Combat Command, Quality Education System (QES), Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, May, 1995.

1995           Consultant.  U. S. Air Force, Air Combat Command, Quality Education System, October 19-24, 1995, Minot AFB, North Dakota. 

1996           Consultant.  U. S. Department of Education. Oregon Historical Society, Collections Access Project, March – Sept., 1996.

1997           Consultant.  William Penn Foundation, Arts and Technology Directions. Sept., 1997.

1997-8        Consultant.  Getty Information Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust.

1998-9        Consultant.  Illinois State Library—for Digitization programs.

1998           Consultant.  Andrew Mellon Foundation, Evaluation of Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.

2000-01      Consultant.  Illinois State Library, FindIt! Illinois project to develop a digital library of state documents.

Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements

Invited by the Cataloging and Indexing Group (CIG) of the Library Association to present the keynote address at their Biennial UmbrelLa Conference, Manchester, England, June, 1995.

Invited by the Director General of the Banque Internationale des Etats Francophones and the National Library of Canada to present a paper at their International Conference on the Future of Communications Formats, October, 1996.

Book co-authored with F. W. Lancaster (Technology and the Management of Library and Information Services) was selected for the list of recommended professional reading, 1997-98, by the American Library Association, June, 1998.

Awarded NCSA (National Computational Science Alliance) Faculty Fellowship to support research on methods to improve the usability of digitized cultural heritage collections, 2001-2002.

Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations

Beth Sandore.  "Online Searching: Identifying Patrons' Needs." Library Research Round Table Forum, American Library Association Annual Conference, July 1, 1986, New York.

Betsy Baker and Beth Sandore.  "Online Catalog Instruction: A Framework for Decision Making."  Association of College & Research Libraries,  Undergraduate Librarians Discussion Group, American Library Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 29, 1987.

Beth Sandore and Betsy Baker.  "Effective Information Retrieval: A Model for Teaching and Learning." Library and Information Technology Association National Conference, October 2-6, 1988, Boston, MA.

Beth Sandore.  "The Reciprocal Benefits of Research in Conjunction with Daily Activities," Association of College &  Research Libraries pre-conference workshop "Inspiring Enthusiasm for Research: An ACRL Event."  June 22, 1990, Chicago, IL.

Beth Sandore.  "Electronic Systems Development in German Libraries." Sponsored by the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, the Online Catalog Advisory Committee, and the Cataloging Policy Advisory Committee of the University of Illinois Library, September 14, 1990, Urbana, IL.

Beth Sandore.  "Research on the development of technology-based reference services for users."  Research and Statistics Committee of the Reference and Adult Service Division (RUSA) program-- "Unanswered Questions: Gaps in Research on Reference Effectiveness." American Library Association annual conference, July 1, 1991, Atlanta, GA.

Beth Sandore, Kathleen Kluegel, and Karen L. Newsome.  "A Baseline
Study for Evaluating the Impact of the Expanded Electronic Catalog on Library Operations and Users."  Library Research Round Table Forum, American Library Association Annual Conference, June 29, 1992, New York. 

Beth Sandore and Kathleen Ryan. "Evaluating Electronic Resources: A Study Using Three Concurrent Methods." 16th Essen International Symposium, October 19, 1993, Essen, Germany.

Beth Sandore.  “AGRICOLA Across the Internet: Evaluation of User Needs.”  Presented at the National Agricultural Library, May, 1994, Beltsville, MD.

Beth Sandore.  “Remote Use of the Virtual Library:  User Needs.”  17th International Essen Symposium, October, 1994, Essen, Germany.

Beth Sandore.  “Digital Imaging Projects to Support Use of Visual Resources,”  Faculty Seminar of the UIUC Advanced Information Technology Group, May, 1995, Urbana, Illinois.

Beth Sandore.  “Order out of  Chaos: Indexing the Internet.”  Keynote address to the Library Association Cataloguing and Indexing Group, UmbrelLA Conference, June, 1995, Manchester, England.

Beth Sandore and Charles Bauer.  “Search Engines for Image Databases.”  ACRL Technology in the Arts Discussion Group.  American Library Association Annual Meeting, July, 1996, New York.

Beth Sandore.  "The Museum Educational Site Licensing Image Database and its Uses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." Museum Computer Networks (MCN) conference, October 30-Nov. 3, 1996, Ottawa, Canada.

Beth Sandore.  "Digital Images and Their Descriptive Metadata."  Conference on the Future of Communication Formats, sponsored by the Banque Internationale des Etats Francophones and the National Library of Canada, October 5-10, 1996, Ottawa, Canada.

Beth Sandore.  "MESL as a Catalyst for Collaboration on Digital Imaging Technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."  LITA/LAMA Biennial Conference, October 13-16, 1996, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Beth Sandore.  “Footprints in the Snow:  Studying Uses and Users of Electronic Systems Using Transaction Log Analysis.”  LITA/LAMA Biennial Conference, October 13-16, 1996, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jim Blackaby and Beth Sandore.  “Building Integrated Museum Information Systems: Practical Approaches to Data Organization and Access.”  Museums and the Web Conference, sponsored by the Getty Information Institute, March 16-19, 1997-Los Angeles, California. 

Beth Sandore.  “Users Evaluate an Art Image Database:  Methods and Analysis.”  Association of Computing Machines (ACM) Digital Libraries ’97 Conference.  July, 1997, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Beth Sandore, Najmuddin Shaik and Yin Zhang.  “Instructor and student evaluation of digital image use in the classroom:  the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project.” Museum Computer Networks Conference, October 15-18, 1997, St. Louis, Missouri.

Jim Blackaby and Beth Sandore.  “Integrated Museum Information Systems:  Organization and Access.” Museum Computer Networks Conference, October 15-18, 1997, St. Louis, Missouri.

Beth Sandore, John la Plante, Jenny Marie Johnson, and Doug Johnston.  "The Aerial Photo Imagebase Project."  ILGISA (Illinois Geographic Information Systems Association) Annual Conference, December, 1997. Chicago, Illinois.

Beth Sandore and Najmuddin Shaik.  “The Findings of the MESL Instructor and Student Evaluation Study.”  Association of  College & Research Libraries (ACRL)/Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Technology and the Arts Cttee.  Program, American Library Association Annual Conference, June, 1998, Washington, DC.

Beth Sandore.  “Mixed Metadata:  Challenges to Working with Multimedia Digital Information Systems.”  Annual Conference of the Society of American Archivists, September 4, 1998, Walt Disney World, Florida.

Beth Sandore.  “Getting Started with Digitizing.”  Video Conference, sponsored by Illinois State Library, September 23, 1998, Springfield, Illinois.

Beth Sandore and John Weise.  “The Challenges to Building Visual Repositories.”  CIC Metadata Conference, November 17, 1998, Urbana, Illinois.

Beth Sandore.  “Digitization Projects:  Techniques and Methods for Getting Started.” (one-day workshop). Sponsored by Lincoln Trail Libraries System, March 17, 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Beth Sandore, Patricia Miller, Nuala Bennett, and Amanda Grunden.  “Integration of Primary Resource Materials into Elementary School Curricula.”  Museums and Web Conference, April 16-20, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/abstracts/prg_80000209.html).

Beth Sandore, Nuala Bennett, and Patricia Miller.  “The Digital Cultural Heritage Community Project.”  National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative 2 Conference, June 6-10, 2000, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.

(http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/DCHC/Stratford-slides_files/frame.htm)

Beth Sandore.  "What Do Users Want? Evaluation and design principles for digital image collections."  (one-hour presentation).  “Digital Libraries and Digital Imaging:  Preconference sponsored by LITA (Library and Information Technology Association), July 7, 2000, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.  (http://images.library.uiuc.edu/publications/presentations/litapreconf72000/frame.htm).

Beth Sandore, Nuala Bennett, and Patricia Miller.  “The Digital Cultural Heritage Community Project.”  American Library Association Annual Conference, July 9, 2000, Chicago, Illinois. 

Beth Sandore.  “User Preferences for Image Database Design and Image Delivery.”  Visual Resources Association Annual Conference.  February 28, 2001, Chicago, Illinois.

Beth Sandore.  “Electronic Records and Information Management: Developing Strategies for Managing Digital Imaging Programs.”  Midwest Archives Conference, May 4, 2001, Chicago, Illinois.

Beth Sandore.  “Consortial Digitization Projects:  Changing the Fundamental Nature of Cultural Heritage Institution Collaboration.”  IFLA/ARLIS Satellite Meeting (International Federation of Library Associations and the Art Libraries Society of North America), August 16-17, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts.