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Marilyn S. Billings 170 E. Hadley Road, Apt. 95 Amherst, Massachusetts 01002 Home: (413) 256-5913 Office: (413) 545-6891 Cell: (413) 519-6725 Email: [email protected] Webpage: http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings EDUCATION University of Rhode Island M.L.I.S. 1985 Kingston, RI Bates College B.S. Double Major in Biology and Psychology, 1975 Lewiston, Maine PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Massachusetts Librarian V, 2009- Amherst, MA Librarian IV, 1998-2009 September 2006 – present. Head, Office of Scholarly Communication Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian May 2004 – August 2006 Coordinator, Five College Cooperative Library Systems & Special Initiatives Librarian July 1998 – April 2004 Coordinator and Head, Library Information Systems and Technology Services Keene State College Associate Professor Keene, NH July 1989 - June 1998 Systems Librarian Franklin Pierce College Head, Circulation. AV and Inter-Library Loan Rindge, NH Feb. - July 1989 Circulation Librarian / Audiovisual Coordinator Bates College Cataloger Lewiston, ME Sept. 1985 - Feb. 1989 Assistant Catalog Librarian 1 PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH, AND REPORTS “Spreading the Word, Building a Community: Vision for a National OER Movement”, by Nicole Allen, Steven Bell, and Marilyn Billings, Against the Grain, Nov 2014, pp 14-16. http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/61/ “Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries,” by Marilyn S. Billings, Sarah C. Hutton, Jay Schafer, Charles M. Schweik, and Matt Sheridan, Research Library Issues: A Quarterly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 280, Sept 2012. http://publications.arl.org/rli280/2 “A University Library Creates a Digital Repository for Documenting and Disseminating Community Engagement” by William A Miller and Marilyn Billings, Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, North America, May 16, 2012. Available at: <http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/article/view/791/557. http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/44/ “Institutional Repositories, Libraries and the Academy”, book chapter in American Library Association’s ALCTS IR series entitled The Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges, March 2012. Series is available at http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/papers/irs Book chapter is available at http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/51/ Response to Request for Information (RFI) issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting from Federally Funded Research”, comments on behalf of UMass Amherst, Jan 12, 2012. Available at http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/50/ “Strategies for Developing an Institutional Repository: A Case Study of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst” co-authored with Yuan Li, Journal of Library and Information Studies, 37 (1), 81-98 (April 2011) available at http://jlis.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/ojs/index.php/jlis/article/viewFile/618/571 “The Effectiveness of SelectedWorks Pages in Populating an Institutional Repository”, invited research participant, Berkeley Electronic Press (3 year study, July 2007 – June 2010) “Documenting and Promoting Engagement Using ScholarWorks, UMass Amherst’s Digital Repository”, Peer- reviewed Program. 10th annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Sept 28-30, 2009. Co-presented with William Miller (UMass Amherst Continuing and Professional Education). http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/24/ "The Academic Library as Publishing Agent: showcasing student, faculty, and campus scholarship and publications”, Peer-reviewed Program; Co-presented with Terri Fishel (Library Director at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN), Part of the proceedings of the Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference, Seattle, WA March 12-15, 2009. http://works.bepress.com/teresa_fishel/12/ “To Host or Not To Host, or, Decisions Along the Way to a Successful Hosted Repository Investment” Invited Speaker, part of the ALCTS (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services) all day pre-conference symposium entitled “Implementing an Institutional Repository: Benefits and Challenges”, American Library Association, Midwinter meeting, Denver, CO Jan 22, 2009. Presentation was invited to be repurposed into webinar for the ALCTS series offered Spring 2009 - Spring 2010 and will be included as a book chapter in the ALCTS IR . http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/27/ “Changing Scholarly Communications and the Role of an Institutional Repository in the Digital Landscape”. This presentation, originally given as a presentation to University of Maine faculty and librarians Feb 14, 2008, has been re-published in the 2013 revision of the peer-reviewed ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit “Accelerating the Transition to a More Open System of Scholarship” http://acrl.ala.org/scholcomm/ 2 MIRACLE Project (University of Michigan) http://miracle.si.umich.edu/index.html After participating in the “Census of Institutional Repositories”, I was asked to be one of the case studies in the MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment) Project research funded by the IMLS: to identify models and best practices in the administration, technical infrastructure, and access to repository collections. UMass Amherst was the first site visit of their 5 model IRs, June 26- 28, 2008. In her summary report, the PI Dr Soo Young Rieh stated: “The findings from the ScholarWorks case study helped us to broaden the scope of our case studies by including more diverse people who can talk about the future of digital libraries and open access movement” demonstrating that the work that we are doing is making an impact by changing IR research approaches. NIH Public Access Policy Mandate LibGuide. Originally presented as “NIH Public Access Policy Mandate: Background and Action Steps” to UMass Amherst NIH grant fund recipients in partnership with the Office of Research, May 20, 2008, incorporated into LibGuide co-developed with Maxine Schmidt. http://guides.library.umass.edu/NIHpubpol Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Online Learning, Chair’s final report, Spring 2008 http://www.umass.edu/senate/adhoc/ACOL_FINAL_REPOR_0508.pdf “ScholarWorks @ UMassAmherst: digital repository” brochure, Spring 2007. “ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst: Talking Points about the Digital Repository Service”, Jan 2006, revised Sept 2006. http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/4 “A Study of Institutional Repositories; with analysis” by Marilyn Billings. Sabbatical report, Jan 30 – July 09, 2005. http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/8 “Electronic Repositories: New England Land-Grant Universities Task Force Report” Task Force members: Marilyn Billings (chair), Sharon Fitzgerald (U Maine), Peter Murray (U Conn), Pongracz Sennyey (U Vt), Elizabeth Slomba (UNH). Dec 15, 2004. Ferguson, Jessame, Joel Fowler, Marilyn Hanley (my former name), and Jay Schafer. "Building a Digital Library in Support of Distance Learning" in Journal of Library Administration, vol.37, no 3/4 2002, pp 317-331. PRESENTATIONS “Encouraging Openness at Your Institution: Trends in Open Education and Open Access”, invited speaker, Special Libraries Association (SLA) National Conference, Boston, MA, June 16, 2015 http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/67/ “The New Now: Institutional Repositories and Academia”, invited keynote speaker, Institutional Repository Day @ USM, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, April 17, 2015 http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/66/ “Seeking Alternatives to High-cost Textbooks: The UMass Amherst Example, invited speaker, Affordable Learning Georgia webinar series, panel with Cyril Oberlander (Humboldt State University) and Kate Pitcher (SUNY Geneseo), University System of Georgia Library Services, April 15, 2015 http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/68/ Keynote address on open education co-presented with Nicole Allen, Teaching and Learning with Technology, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, April 10, 2015 “Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On and Off Campus”, invited speaker, bepress IR All-Stars Tailgate pre-conference prior to Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) national conference, Portland, OR, March 25, 2015 http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/65/ 3 “UMA’s Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In”, invited speaker, Association of South East Research Libraries (ASERL) webinar panel Lib-OER Community: Lessons from the Field: Models for Library Support of Alt-Textbooks with Steven Bell (Temple University), William Cross (NC State), Melanie Kowalski (Emory University), Jan 15, 2015 https://vimeo.com/116900928 and http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/64/ “Seeking Alternatives to High-cost Textbooks: A Case Study of the UMass Amherst Open Education Initiative”, invited speaker, various meetings in fy ‘15: Bristol Community College, Aug 19, 2014 Bridgewater State University, Aug 19, 2014 Simmons GLIS, Nov 15, 2014 Boston College, Feb 26, 2015 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, April 10, 2015 University of Southern Mississippi, April 17, 2015 Wheaton College, May 19, 2015 Example: http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/69/ “Open Educational Resources at UMass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives to High-Cost Textbooks”, co-presented with Charlotte Roh, Updates from the World of Open: SHARE, OERs, and MOOCs, ACRL/NEC Scholarly Communication Interest Group fall program, College