Tim Jewell Tim Jewell began serving as Director of Information Resources, Collections and Scholarly Communication with the Libraries in March 2006. He has worked for the Libraries since 1983, when he became Computer Based Reference Librarian. He served as Acting Head of the Libraries' Reference and Research Services from 1990-1992, when he became Head of the Libraries' Electronic Information Program, and then Head of Collection Management Services in 1998.
For the last several years Tim has coordinated the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative that has led to the development of systems many libraries now use for managing their electronic resources. He has a long-term interest in measurement issues related to electronic resources, and did work in that area as Visiting Program Officers for Electronic Resources with the Association of Research Libraries from 1996-1998. He is currently a member of NISO's SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) Steering Group, which aims to facilitate and automate the process of distributing and gathering COUNTER usage data. He has also been active over a number of years in such regional library consortia as the Orbis Cascade Alliance, Greater Western Library Alliance, and Washington Cooperative Library Project.
Tim holds an M.L.S. (1974) from SUNY-Albany, and an M.A. in Sociology (1978) from the Pennsylvania State University. His undergraduate degree in Philosophy is from Manhattan College in New York.