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WILLIAM F. GARRITY Shields Library 745 Oeste Drive 100 North West Quad Davis CA 95616 University of California, Davis [email protected] Davis CA 95616 http://www.william-garrity.com 530/752-2110 office 603/359-0566 mobile • Comprehensive and significant experience in higher education at Dartmouth College and the universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania, and California, Davis • Focus on administration, budgeting and finance, personnel management, and planning; program development and evaluation; library and information resources and services; education; educational technology; communications; and space planning and renovation • Central to efforts to provide faculty, scholars and researchers, clinicians, students, and staff with resources and services needed for education, research and scholarship, health care, institutional operation, and service EDUCATION December 1986 Master of Arts in Library and Information Science (full tuition grant and teaching fellowship) Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 2000 Graduate courses in Intellectual Property Franklin Pierce Law Center (now UNH School of Law) Concord, New Hampshire 1989-1993 Courses for Master of Business Administration (secured approximately a third of those required for degree) (concentration: Economics) Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois May 1982 Bachelor of Science (major, Biology; Certificate of Honors in English) Siena College Loudonville, New York PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE March 2014 - Deputy University Librarian and Chief of Staff University Library University of California, Davis As Deputy, shares with the University Librarian overall responsibility for the University Library system; as Chief of Staff, supervises Library personnel. Generally responsible for the overall administration and operation of the University Library system, with specific responsibility for library operations, services, and activities; staff management, structure, and coordination; internal and external communication; assessment and evaluation; long- range facilities planning; and partnership negotiations. Overall supervision of over 200 FTE librarians and other staff; oversight of four facilities -- Peter J. Shields Library, Carlson Health Sciences Library, and Physical Sciences and Engineering Library at Davis, and May 19, 2014 William F. Garrity | Curriculum Vitae Blaisdell Medical Library in Sacramento -- comprising 400,000 square feet across both campuses; and general oversight of the approximately $22 M Library budget. April 2011- Associate Chief Information Officer/ April 2013 Director of Academic and Campus Technology Services Computing Services Dartmouth College Executive leadership of campus-wide academic and campus information technology services: administrative and academic desktop information technology support, VIP IT support, 24/7 outage coverage and support of critical campus software applications, the help desk and walk-in support center, educational technology (curricular and academic computing), research computing, classroom technology support for over 130 "smart classrooms," internal IT communications, and staff personnel recruitment, development, and supervision. Designed, organized, managed, and supervised programs, projects, activities, and personnel comprehensively across academic and campus technology services. Allocated staff and other resources to meet Dartmouth's needs for academic and campus information technology resources and services. • Led a group of 45 IT professionals (second-largest division within Computing Services). • Planned, coordinated, and led projects to implement Office 365 (hosted Microsoft Exchange) to replace a proprietary email system and Oracle Calendar; to implement a hosted service to replace Remedy as Computing Services' IT service desk software; to evaluate replacements for Blackboard as Dartmouth's learning management system; to pilot lecture capture solutions; and to pilot hosted media storage solutions. • Planned, coordinated, and led a complete personnel and process reorganization of the IT support center. • Established service level agreements with Dartmouth offices that are key consumers of IT resources and services; managed the associated contracts. • Developed and managed capital and operational budgets. • Contributed to projects to envision, spec, select, and implement unified communications; an EDUCAUSE/Internet2 etextbook pilot initiative; and institutional repositories and digital libraries. • Fostered communication among diverse and distributed client communities within and outside Dartmouth. August 1996- Director of Biomedical Libraries March 2011 Dartmouth College Library/Geisel School of Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Instructor, Department of Community and Family Medicine Geisel School of Medicine Promotion in rank to Library Professional IV, March 20011 1 The Dartmouth College Library has a system of professional ranks to recognize and reward professional accomplishment, thus providing a path of professional advancement that includes, but does not require, movement into supervisory or managerial positions. This system of professional ranks applies to all exempt staff employed by Dartmouth College Library, with exceptions determined by the Dean of Libraries. Library Professional IV, the highest professional rank, is reserved for individuals who have made original, creative, and Ma7 19, 2014 2/11 William F. Garrity | Curriculum Vitae Leadership in managing health and life sciences information resources and services in the academic research and health sciences libraries for the Geisel School of Medicine (GSM), The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, the Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC campus), multiple interdisciplinary campus programs, and components of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and New England Alliance for Health. • Oversight of the Dana Biomedical Library (Hanover campus) and the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library (DHMC) and joint digital libraries. • Led a group of 25 biomedical librarians and informationists, technicians, and support staff that provided a comprehensive array of library and information resources and services for Dartmouth's and DHMC's health and life sciences communities. Organized, managed, and supervised teams engaged in library functions for user and education services, technical services and automated systems for information resource development and management, digital libraries and web design and technology, research support and information retrieval, document delivery services and interlibrary loan, access and circulation services, computer/learning resource center activities, consumer health information and education, and health and life sciences communities outreach and communication. • Designed, led, and implemented strategic planning activities. • Developed and managed capital and operational budgets. Allocated staff and other resources to meet Dartmouth's needs for information resources and services in the health and life sciences. • Managed contracts for provision of library and information resources and services to components of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and New England Alliance for Health. • Developed strategies and planned, coordinated, and led programs, projects, and activities to apply information resources and services and communication technologies to support education, research, health care, and institutional service. • Worked closely with medical school leadership, including the Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, the Director of Information Technology, and numerous course directors, to design, develop, implement, and sustain information resources and services in support of teaching and learning. • Contributed leadership to the Computing Venture Fund and other Dartmouth College efforts to foster innovation in academic information technology. • Fostered communication among diverse and distributed client communities. • Co-reported to Dean of Libraries/Librarian of the College, and Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. • Leadership of and service on numerous College Library, College, GSM, and DHMC committees, boards, working groups, and task forces focusing on education and information technology resources and services. • September 2009-March 2011 additional formal assignment Chief of Internal Communications, Geisel School of Medicine Interim leadership of internal communications. distinctive contributions to the Library and to the profession over a significant period of time. The rank of Library Professional IV recognizes sustained professional and/or scholarly accomplishment, leadership, and outstanding performance, particularly beyond the local level. Librarians IV initiate distinctive programs or services, formulate and execute system-wide policies, and/or administer major components of the library system. The Promotion Review Committee reviews candidate portfolios documenting bids for promotion and recommends promotion or denial of promotion to the Dean of Libraries, who makes the final decision. (Portfolio binder available for inspection) System of Professional Ranks and Promotion Review Process, Dartmouth College Library Ma7 19, 2014 3/11 William F. Garrity | Curriculum Vitae • April 2001-January 2004 additional formal assignment Special Associate for Innovative Projects, Dartmouth College Library Executive