
BARBARA B. MORAN School of Information and Library Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3360, 100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Phone: (919) 962-8067; Fax: (919) 962-8071
e-mail: moran@ils.unc.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1982 ) State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
M.Ln.(1973) Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
A.B. (1966 ) Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- January, 1999-present Professor, School of Information and Library Science. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Dean and Professor, July, 1990 –December, 1998; Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, 1987-1990; Assistant Professor, 1981-1987
- September, 1980 - June, 1981 Teaching Assistant, SILS, SUNY/Buffalo
- September, 1979-May, 1980 Intern, Office of the Head of Lockwood Memorial Library
- September 1978-May 1979 Intern, Office of the Director of the University Libraries. State University of New York at Buffalo
- June, 1974-June, 1978 Head of the Library and Director of Audiovisual Services. The Park School of Buffalo
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
- Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Chair, Awards Committee, 1997-, Secretary/Treasurer, Council of Deans and Directors of ALISE, 1992-1994, Program Planning Committee, 1990-1991.
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Member, Search Committee for Editor of Publications in Librarianship Series, 1996- 1997; Member, Search Committee for Editor of College & Research Libraries, 1994-95; Member, ACRL President's Program Planning Committee, 1992-93; 1989-1990;Invited Participant, ACRL Faculty Status Committee's Think Tank on Faculty Status: 2001, January 24, 1992; Invited Participant, ACRL President's Symposium on Information Literacy, January 1990.
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine Advisory Board – Regional Advisory Council, 1995-
- American Library Association, Committee on Accreditation ,Chair, External Review Committee, Department of Library and Information Science, University of California at Los Angeles, April, 1997; Chair External Review Committee, School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University, Montreal Canada, November, 1995.
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Member of Reaffirmation Committee to Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October, 1994; Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, November 17-20, 1992; University of Mississippi, April 10-13, 1989.
- Member, Editorial Board, College & Research Libraries, 1996-Present., Journal of Academic Librarianship (1993 – 1994, ACRL Publications in Librarianship Monograph Series
- ALISE/H.W. Wilson Scholar to the State Academy of Culture in St. Petersburg, Russia, March, 1996
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Libscomb, C. E., Moran, B.B., Jenkins, C.G., Cogdill, K.W. Friedman, C. P., Gollop, C. J., Moore, M. E., Morrison, M. L., Tibbo, H. R. and Wildemuth B. M. (1999) "Feasibility and Marketing Studies of Health Sciences Librarianship Education Programs." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, vol. 87, no. 1 (January, 1999), pp. 50-57. (Refereed)
- Kilgour, F. G., Moran, B.B., and Barden, J. R (1999) "Retrieval Effectiveness of Surname-Title-Word Searches for Known Items by Academic Library Users." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 50, no. 3 (1999), pp. 265-270. (Refereed).
- Stueart, R.D. and Moran, B.B. (1998) Library and Information Center Management, 5th Edition, Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 509 pp.
- Moran, B.B. (1998) The Changing Organizational Structures of Academic Libraries. In New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Conference. (pp. 169-175). Beijing: Peking University Press. (Refereed Proceedings)
- Moran, B.B. (1997) "Faculty Evaluation in Schools of Library and Information Science" in Kent, A. (ed) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, New York: Marcel Dekker, vol. 60, , pp. 111-120.
- Moran, B.B , Libscomb, C. E.,., Jenkins, C.G., Cogdill, K.W. Friedman, C. P., Gollop, C. J., Moore, M. E., Morrison, M. L., Tibbo, H. R. and Wildemuth B. M. (1996) Preparing Tomorrow’s Health Sciences Librarians: Feasibility and Marketing" BMLA, vol. 84, (October, 1996), pp. 541-548.
- Moran, B.B.(1995) Learning about Leadership: What Works in Modern Organizations. in Allen, B.L. and Weece, T. L. (eds), Critical Issues in Library Management: Papers from the Thirty-Fifth Allerton Institute, University of Illinois, GLIS, Urbana-Champaign, 1995, pp. 3-18.
- Williams, D.E., Budd, J.M, Martin, R.E, Moran, B.B., Roper, F.R., eds. (1994) For the Good of the Order: Essay in Honor of Edward G. Holley. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1994, 370 pp.
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS
Laura Janda, Director, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies , UNC-CH. Collaboration on Title VI grant to bring Slavic scholars to SILS.Rudolph Vlasak, Director, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship Charles University, Prague, Established a Student Exchange Program
Ole Harbo, Director, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Established a Student Exchange Program
David Vaisey, Bodley’s Librarian, Established a UNC/ Bodleian Library summer seminar at Oxford
Carol Jenkins, UNC Health Sciences Library and Charles Friedman, UNC Medical Informatics Program. Received grant from National Library of Medicine to study the preparation of tomorrow’s health sciences information professionals.