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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