The University of St. Thomas

Dan's Resume

Daniel R. Gjelten


Education

M.A. English, University of St. Thomas, 2000
M.A. Library Science, University of Minnesota, 1977
B.A. English/Philosophy, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, 1974

Other:  Frye Leadership Institute, Council of Library and Information Resources, 2002
           ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute, 1999


Employment

10/02               Director, University of St. Thomas Libraries

11/98 - 10/02     Director, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, University of St. Thomas

7/96 - 11/98       Acting Director, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, UST

12/91 - 7/96       Head of Reference Services, O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center, UST

1/87 - 12/91       Deputy Director, Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

1/86 - 1/87         Business Researcher, Dayton-Hudson Corporation

7/84 - 1/86         Head of Reference Services, Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

8/78 - 7/84        Reference Librarian, Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

  
University/Community Leadership                                                                                           
Serve on and chair UST Library, campus wide and regional committees, including:

  • Advisory Committee, Master’s in Public Policy and Leadership Program, UST School of Education (2006 – present )
  • Board of Directors, Melpomene Institute (2005 -- present )
  • UST Mission Statement Task Force (2004 – 2005)
  • University Technology Advisory Council (2003 – present); chaired UTAC subcommittee on copyright (2003)
  • North Central Accreditation Self Study Committee on Mission (Chair, 2001 - 2004)
  • UST Strategic Planning Study Group, Technology Organizational Structure (2000-2001)
  • Cooperating Libraries in Consortium Board of Directors (1999 - present); President, (2004-2005)
  • UST Technology Planning Council (1999-2000)
  • UST Copyright Committee (1999-2001)
  • UST Minneapolis Library Planning and Operations Task Force (1999 - 2000)


Communications
Major presentations:

  • Academic Libraries Futures  College of St. Catherine Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 4/21/07;
  • Designing Spaces: Physical, Virtual,  Organizational University of Minnesota/Minitex Reference Symposium, 5/15/06;
  • Libraries: Context, Assessment and Planning,  College of St. Catherine School of Library and Information Science, 11/28/05;
  • Libraries: From Repositories to Community Place University of Minnesota College of Architecture, 4/5/05;
  • Library Management and Mission College of St. Catherine Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 4/05;
  • The Architecture of an Idea: Encouraging the Unplanned  Educause Annual Conference, Denver, 10/04;
  • "From Anecdotes to Evidence: Collecting and Using Data to Improve Reference Services" University of Minnesota, 10/16/00;
  • Classrooms of the Future, 5/22/96;
  • CLIC Annual Retreat, 4/6/95;
  • Minnesota Library Association Academic Libraries Day, 5/11/94;
  • Dedication of the Luxembourg Collection, 12/18/94;
  • CLIC Rethinking Reference workshop, 1/20/94;
  • UST Symposium on the Virtual Library, 3/12/93;
  • Minitex CD-ROM LAN workshop, 11/13/92.

Publications
Gjelten, Dan and Terri Fishel.  Developing Leaders and Transforming Libraries  C&RL News,  July/August, 2006.

Frequent articles in university publications to promote library issues, innovations, services and collections.  Selected recent articles include:

o The New Village Commons Has Computers.  St. Thomas, the Magazine of the University of St. Thomas.  Fall, 2006.

o The Digital Generation Divide  a comment on The Net Generation Goes to College.’  Synergia (Newsletter of Faculty Development.)  Vol. 25, No. 1.  September/October, 2006, p8.

o "The UST Libraries: Context, Assessment and Planning, Part I  Bulletin Today, November 3, 2005.  http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200545/Thursday/Library11_3_05.cfm?ArticleID=6656

o The UST Libraries: Context, Assessment and Planning, Part II Bulletin Today, November 4, 2005.  http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200545/Friday/Library11_4_05.cfm?ArticleID=6657

o Infocommons: The UST Libraries look to the Future.  Bulletin Today, March 17,  2004                  http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200412/Wednesday/IRT3_17_04.cfm?ArticleID=3881

o Libraries at UST: Challenges and Opportunities. Bulletin Today, March 8, 2002.   http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200210/Friday/Technology3_8_02.cfm?ArticleID=365

o  "UST Libraries present journal reduction project final report"
(The libraries reviewed their periodical holdings with the goal of reducing that budget by 10-15 percent.) Bulletin Today, October 2001. http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200140/Tuesday/JournalReduction10_2_01.cfm?ArticleID=3303

o "Technology today: Research and the World Wide Web, part one: students"
(Students cite fewer scholarly resources in their papers due to their increased use of the Web.)  Bulletin Today, March 2, 2001. http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/20019/Friday/TechnologyToday3_2_01.cfm?ArticleID=2456

o "Technology Today: Evolution of print to digital resources has wide-ranging implications for library, university"  (Challenges as well as opportunities loom with change.) Bulletin Today, October 10, 2000. http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200046/Friday/TechnologyToday11_10_00.cfm?ArticleID=1947

o "Technology Today: Let's consider 'information literacy'"
(Offering another way to think about computer competency.)  Bulletin Today, November 5, 1999. http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/199945/Friday/TechnologyToday11_5_99.cfm?ArticleID=301