Prof. Gail McMillan
General Information
Occupation: Librarian, IAWA Archivist
Date of Birth: 1950
Birth City: Boise
Birth State/Province: Idaho
Birth Country: United States
Resident City: Blacksburg
Resident State/Province: Virginia
Resident Country: United States
Archive/Repository: Digital Library and Archives, Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
Specialties
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Jobs
Employer: Virginia Tech, University Libraries
Title: Head, Special Collections Department
City: Blacksburg
State: Virginia
Country: United States
Start Date: July 01, 1995
End Date: July 01, 2000
Employer: Virginia Tech, University Libraries
Title: Director, Digital Library and Archives
City: Blacksburg
Country: United States
Start Date: July 01, 2000
Notes: merged Special Collections Department and Scholarly Communications Project
Employer: Virginia Tech, University Libraries
Title: Director, Scholarly Communications Project
City: Blacksburg
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1994
End Date: June 30, 2000
Notes: previously held several positions in the library's Technical Services Dept.
Employer: Smithsonian Institution
Title: Assistant Archivist
City: Washington, D. C.
Country: United States
Start Date: January 01, 1981
End Date: December 31, 1981
Collaborators
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Apprenticeships
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Awards
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Exhibitions
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Notable Projects
Title: ETDs: Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Description: Established role for the library in the 1997 requirement that all masters and doctoral candidates at Virginia Tech submit their theses electronically
City: Blacksburg
State: Virginia
Country: United States
Start Date: 1995
Url: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
Notes: Collaborated with John Eaton, Graduate School; James Powell, library programmer; and Ed Fox, Computer Science.
Education
Institution: University of California, Riverside
Department: History, Education
Degree: BA
Start Date: 1968
End Date: 1972
Institution: University of Maryland
Department: Library and Information Science
Degree: MLS
Start Date: July 1979
End Date: May 1981
Institution: University of Maryland
Department: History
Degree: MA
Start Date: July 1979
End Date: May 1981
Licensing
License: MLS
Organization: ALA-accredited
Date Awarded: May 1981
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
Organization: American Library Association
Organization: Association of College and Research Libraries
Publications By
Title: "Virginia Database for African-American History and Culture: NEH Awards $250,000 for VHP"
Publication: Virginia Libraries
Volume: vol. 47
Issue: no. 2
Page: 5-7
Publisher: Virginia Library Association
Url: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/VALib/v47_n2/v47_n2.pdf
Notes: (Summer 2001)
Title: "The Digital Library: Without a Soul Can It be a Library?"
Publication: Books and Bytes: Technologies for the Hybrid Library: Conference Proceedings Victoria Association for Library Automation.
Publisher: VALA
City: Victoria
Date Published: 2000
Url: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2000/valapdf/McMillan.PDF
Title: "Managing Digital Content: The Scholarly Communications Project"
Publication: Evolving Virtual Library II: Practical and Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Dr. Laverna M. Saunders
Page: 39-60
City: Medford
Date Published: 1999
Title: "Evolving Genre of Electronic Theses and Dissertations"
Co-author: Fox, Edward A., and John Eaton
Publication: Proceedings, 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Publisher: HICSS
Date Published: 1999
Url: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/presentations/Hawaii/ETDgenreALL/pdf
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