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Biographical of Brian Schottlaender Brian E. C. Schottlaender has been University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since September 1999. Prior to joining UCSD, his twenty-plus year career in libraries included positions at the California Digital Library; UCLA; the University of Arizona; Indiana University; and Firma Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, one of Europe’s oldest and most respected library booksellers and subscription agents. At the University of California, Mr. Schottlaender is a member of the Chancellor’s Council and of the Executive Committee of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He currently serves as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on three extramurally funded projects totaling $1.6 million: one each underwritten by the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A member of the American Library Association (ALA) since 1979, Mr. Schottlaender has served on the Board of Directors of ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) since 1996. He served as the Association’s President in 2003–2004. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Schottlaender served as the ALA representative to the international Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. In 1997 and 1998, he chaired the Program for Cooperative Cataloging at the Library of Congress. From 1999 through 2001 he served as Chair of the Pacific Rim Digital Alliance, and since 1999 he has chaired the San Diego Library Circuit consortium. A member, since 2001, of the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), an organization comprising the leading research libraries in the United States and Canada, Mr. Schottlaender was elected ARL’s President-Elect in 2005. He also serves as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries, a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Mr. Schottlaender has edited two books: The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Proceedings of the AACR 2000 Preconference (1998) and Retrospective Conversion: History, Approaches, Considerations (1992). He has contributed articles to various professional journals, including Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, Journal of Internet Cataloging, the Bowker Annual, and Portal, and has spoken widely on collections, bibliographic access, and digital library issues. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Internet Cataloging and Portal. Mr. Schottlaender obtained his B.A. degree in German Studies from the University of Texas, Austin in 1974 (ampla cum laude). He received his M.S. degree in Library Science from Indiana University in 1980, the same year he was admitted to Beta Phi Mu, the Library Science Honor Society. In 1995, he was one of fifteen individuals selected nationally to attend the Palmer School of Library Science at Long Island University as a Senior Fellow. Mr. Schottlaender was the 2001 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation from the American Library Association for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging and classification. In 2004, his article “Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?” was cited by Cataloging and Classification Quarterly as its article of the year. Source: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/ucsdlibraries/Biographical%20Statement.2006.03.pdf |
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