Curriculum Vitae

Brian Hancock

Title: Systems Librarian Department: Library Division: Technical Services Telephone: 973­655­2098 Email: [email protected]

Education

Bachelor of Arts. University of Alberta, 1978. Major: History, Minor, Latin. Master of Arts. Concordia University, 1991. Major: History. Master of Library and Information Studies. McGill University, 1995.

Current Position Title: Systems Librarian. August 2005 to present. Responsibilities:

• maintain the Integrated Library System SIRSI • assist staff with the SIRSI Workflow clients • develop digital projects and maintain the servers they run on • act as liaison to the Department of Classics and General Humanities and the Department of Philosophy and Religion • act as technical administrator for the Montclarion project • serve two hours per week on the reference desk

Previous Positions:

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Alexander Library, Rutgers University. June 1999 to July 2005. Responsibilities:

• select appropriate material for the collection in Philosophy, Religion, Classics, and German • provide reference service • act as liaison for faculty • initiate digital projects in the Humanities • evaluate gifts

Humanities Librarian, Collection Development Division, Ablah Library, Wichita State University. January 1997 to June 2005. Responsibilities: • select appropriate material for the collection in English, Fine Arts, History, Languages, Philosophy and Religion • coordinate library instruction • provide reference service • set up and maintain a server to run the Harvest system • make decisions on brittle books

Professional Activities

Presentations

“Humanities Data Grid.” Educause Mid­Atlantic, Baltimore, MD, January 2006. “Humanities Grid.” Ancient Studies New Technology Conference 2004, James Madison University, December 2004. “Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities.” New Jersey Library Association Conference, East Brunswick, April 2003. “Roman Republican Coins Database.” Ancient Studies New Technology Conference 2002, Rutgers University, December 2002. “XML Electronic Texts.” American Library Association Conference, New Orleans, January 2002. “The XML Latin Texts Conversion Project.” New Jersey Library Association Conference, Atlantic City, March 2001. “Subject­Specific Search Engines.” Association for Computers and the Humanities, Glasgow, July 2000. “Linux for Librarians.” LinuxWorldExpo and Conference, New York City, February 2000. “The Harvest System on a Linux Alpha Server.” LinuxWorldExpo and Conference, San Jose, California, March 1999. “Advanced Web Applications.” Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, November 1998. “Collection Development and the World Wide Web.” Computers in Libraries ‘98, Arlington, Virginia, March 1998. “Subject and Site Specific Web Robots.” Canadian Library Association Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 1997.

Other

Poster session “Montclair Electronic Text Archive.” New Jersey Library Association, April 2007. Poster Session “Technology Awareness Group.” VALE Conference, Rutgers University, January 2006.

Publications:

Refereed

The Spectator Project: the 18 th century mind in the 21 st century machine . Electronic Library. 23.2. (April 2005): 173­180. Reinventing Unix: an Introduction to the Plan 9 Operating System. Library Hi Tech. 21.4. (December 2003): 471­ 476. Moving to XML. Library Hi Tech. 19.3. (October 2001): 257­263. Subject­Specific Search Engines. Library Computing. 17.2 (June 1998): 84­89.

Other

A Brief Introduction to a Humanities Data Grid. Library Hi Tech News. 21. (September, 2004): 32­33 . Alani. Great Events from History: the Ancient World. Salem Press, May 2004. Merovingian Dynasty, Totila, Alboin and Wallia. Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Salem Press, 2001.

Language Skills

French, Latin

Grants

12/03 Academic Excellence Fund Rutgers University $38,000 Humanities Grid

03/03 Transliteratures Project Rutgers University Spectator Project $3,000

University Service

Learning Management Committee, August 2007 to present. Third Party Applications, Bell Tower Initiative, September 2007 to present. Search Committee, Java Programmer, IT. July to August 2007. Electronic Archival Digital Repository Committee, November 2007 to present.

Library Service

Montclair Digital Newspaper Committee, May 2006 to present. OPAC Committee, April 2007 to present. Director's Station Committee, August 2007 to present. Homepage Committee, December 2007 to present.

Community Service

Jersey Animal Coalition. Volunteer.