| James M. Wetherbee | Homepage: library.wingate.edu/staff/jmw/ |
| 411 Victoria Avenue | Phone: (704) 289-8092 |
| Monroe, NC 28112 | Fax: (704) 233-8254 |
| Birth date: 13 June 1959 | Nickname: Jimm |
Experience
| 1988-present | Ethel K. Smith Library Wingate University Wingate, NC 28174-0219 |
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Information Systems Librarian. (1998-present) |
Responsibility for maintaining the EKSplorer (Ex Libris) integrated library system and library network, assisting the Director of IT in network administration for the Wingate University campus-wide network and University course management system (Moodle), network postmaster, library webmaster (including the design and upkeep of the Wingate University Library web-site), training, maintenance of library computers and peripherals, implementation of new technologies, and some reference duties. Current projects include (1) revising the look and structure of the library web-site (2) revamping the library's list of annotated list of web sites, (3) implementing thin clients in the Reference Area (4) upgrade the server and software to the online catalog and (4) integrate NCLive's NetLibrary collection into the library's online catalog. In 2004 wireless access was extended to most the the library, excluding the main stacks and the quite reading room. For 2005, availability of most of our electronic resources were extended beyond the campus thanks to EZ-Proxy. This was also the year our Director of IT and I helped launch a trial of Moodle, which went live in the fall of 2006. In the summer of 2003 I helped launch the library's e-reserve system and extended FTP capability to users' network shares. During the summer of 2000 worked to extend campus network over much the academic quadrangle. Over the summer of 1998 oversaw the conversion of the library online system from Inlex/DRA to Endeavor. With this came integrating public terminals with NC-LIVE, North Carolina's electronic library resource gateway. Reference Duties include between eleven and fifteen hours per week at the Reference Desk with some collection development and online searching.
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Adjunct Professor. (2002-2003) |
Taught an introduction course to management information systems, variously labeled MIS 110 and CIS 110. The focus of this course was to present the fundamentals of management information systems and technology.
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Reference/Systems Librarian. (1989-98) |
Duties similar to those described but with more involvement in reference and less in library systems. Until 1995 had major responsibility for Reference and Collection Development when a new librarian was hired. Reference desk duty varied from fourteen to twenty-one hours per week. Other duties included bibliographic instruction and online searching. Bibliographic instruction was taken over by the new librarian in 1996. Online vendors included Ovid, Dialog, DataStar and EPIC. Online searching has been almost entirely been replaced by databases on CD-ROM or those offered by NC-LIVE. From 1989 to 1995 I also served as documents librarian for the Wingate's North Carolina Depository collection. Computer systems duties increased with the addition of the campus wide network in 1996, where I added network administration, postmaster and webmaster tasks. In addition to the systems duties described above, I had also been actively involved in migrating from OCLC First System to PRISM Service and in 1992 migrating the library's computer system from CISC to RISC architecture.
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Reference/Serials Librarian. (1988/89) |
Besides the reference duties described above, serials duties included control and development of the library's serials collection. During this time I the was project manager responsible for implementing the EKSplorer (Inlex) system and received the systems manager training in the MPE operating system with Hewlett Packard.
| 1987/88 | Bosworth Memorial Library Lexington Theological LIbrary Lexington, KY 40601 |
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Graduate Assistant to the Librarian. |
Duties included the MICROCON conversion project with OCLC, compiling a standing order union list for our local theological library consortium (TEAM-A), copy cataloging, and general aspects of theological librarianship. Also assisted in evaluating the library's holdings in missions and ecumenics.
Education
| 1987/88 | University of Kentucky College of Library and Information Science Lexington, KY 40506-0030 |
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Master of Science: Library Science, August 1988. |
Concentration on library reference services and information systems. Special focus on services provided by academic libraries.
| 1984-87 | Louisville Presbyterian Theological
Seminary Louisville, KY 40205 |
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Master of Divinity, May 1987. |
Academic concentration in philosophy, systematic theology and church history. Field education included Clinical Pastoral Education, parish and agency work.
| 1981-87 | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Deerfield, IL 60015 |
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Master of Arts, Philosophy of Religion, June 1987 |
Concentration on metaphysics and history of philosophy. Thesis topic was an analysis of Alvin Plantinga's ontological argument.
| 1977-81 | Taylor University Upland, IN 46989 |
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Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy of Religion, May 1977 |
Liberal arts study covering most of the offerings in philosophy and philosophy of religion.
Current Operating Systems
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Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 2003, XP |
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Sun Solaris 8 |
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Mac OS X |
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Linux -- Ubuntu |
Publications
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Wetherbee, James M. Collection Development Statement for the Reference Collection of the Ethel K. Smith Library, Wingate University. June 30, 1995. EDRS. ED393462. |
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Wetherbee, Jimm, "On Being Transworldly Damned." Philosophia Christi, 18:2 (Fall 1995): 65-85. |
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Wetherbee, Jimm, "Change as Opportunity: Information Professionals at the Crossroads: 88th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association" [book review] Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal 8:2 (September1998 Volume 8 Issue 2; September) [Internet] URL: http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre8n2/reviews.htm#Change. |
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Wetherbee, Jimm, “Peterson, John, Introduction to Scholastic Realism” [book review] Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal 10:2 (September 2000 Volume 10 Issue 2) [Internet] URL: http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre10n2/reviews.htm#peterson. |
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Wetherbee, Jimm, “ Benjamin M. Compaine (Ed.) The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?” [book review] Technology Electronic Reviews 10:1 (March 2003 Volume 10 Issue 1) [Internet] URL: http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/LITA/LITA_Publications4/TER__ Technology_Electronic_Reviews/Volume_10,_No__1,_March_2003.htm#compaine. |
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