David D. Bilyeu

College Librarian for the Barber Library Serving

Central Oregon Community College and

Oregon State University-Cascades Campus
 

Email: dbilyeu@cocc.edu. Work: 2600 NW College Way, Bend OR 97701 Phone: 541.383.7563 Fax: 541.383.7507. Home: 64217 Tumalo Rim Dr. Bend OR 97701 Phone: 541.385.4764

 

College Librarian for COCC, and Joint Services for the OSU-Cascades Campus;

Director, Library Rotunda Gallery; Director, Scholar in Residence Program, 1994-

OSU-Cascades is the new Oregon State University branch campus that opened in fall 2001 on the COCC campus in Bend, Oregon.

 

Current Environment and Responsibilities

• Manage, plan, and develop policy for the campus library serving lower division, upper division and select graduate-level programs. The combined campus serves nearly 4,000 students and over 150 faculty in a rapidly expanding environment of higher education opportunities.
• Lead the library management team in creating a vision and goals for shared library services, including library systems and all library services in accordance with policies and procedures agreeable to COCC, OSU-Cascades and OSU.  
• Supervise the two full time faculty librarians, the Head of Public Services, and the Head of Technical Services. Lead the library management team of professional librarians and the two OSU-Cascades Librarians.
• Insure that all staff, professional and classified, have access to development opportunities.
• Take an active role in the Orbis Cascade Alliance management and in other regional academic library initiatives.
• Coordinate and direct the library’s assessment projects and its instructional programs
• Direct the Library Rotunda Gallery which hosts campus arts shows, manages all juried shows. including the recent Spirit of Our Northwest Forests, an exhibit of work by over 40 northwest artists.
• Direct the Scholar in Residence Program, a year long residency for a writer that gives opportunities for the Scholar to interact directly with aspiring writers on campus and in the community.
• Chair, Campus Art Acquisitions Committee. We have commissioned two recent outdoor pieces of art. The committee is working on art for the new Student Center building expected to be done in 2009.
• Head Library Development in cooperation with the COCC Foundation. Recent work: negotiate the donation of four bronze sculptures to the library.

Accomplishments

• Developed the library vision and mission around the concept of the learning commons –encouraging all types of learning beyond the classroom and expanding opportunities for student collaboration and group learning. Opened the library to more campus use, such as faculty-student advising days.
• Created the Library Rotunda Gallery which increased the use of the library building for educational activities, poetry readings, art displays and exhibits directly related to courses being taught. Involved faculty from OSU-Cascades and COCC in planning and delivering displays and events.
• Created the Scholar in Residence program now in its third year in providing. The Scholar in Residence has an office in the Library and consults with faculty and students on their writing projects.
• Developed a marketing campaign for the library resulting in an increased awareness of the library’s scholarly resources available to faculty and students.
• Served on campus technology teams in order to ensure developments in technology support the mission of the library and the needs of the students. This has led to the development of wireless Internet access in the building.

• Negotiated over several years for the entrance of COCC into Orbis, now the Orbis Cascade Alliance, and became the fifteenth member and first community college library in the consortium in 1999.

• Participated in the campus-wide planning for expansion into upper division and graduate programs. Planned cooperative strategies with OSU to serve the new OSU-Cascades Campus located at COCC.

• Wrote the accreditation documents for the 2002 site visit by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The library received commendations from the Commission.
• Hired, guided, and advised the professional faculty librarians who must meet campus tenure and promotion guidelines.
• Annually reviewed and revised departmental fiscal needs and presented these needs to college administration. The library has stayed within its well-honed budget.
• Provided analysis and response to the Oregon Board of Higher Education for the proposals on library services for the University Branch development. This work resulted in a solid foundation on which to build excellent services for the OSU-Cascades campus as it took shape.
• Led the transition team working with our counterparts as OSU’s Valley Library in planning for joint services.
• Carried significant responsibilities for new library planning, design and construction, a $13,000,000 project entailing a 72,000 square foot building that opened in March, 1998. Met weekly for design and construction, 1994-1998, with the contractor, site manager, Vice President for Business, and the architects as part of the construction team. Hired additional professional staff to manage a building almost four times the size of the old library. Involved staff in new building planning and collection development projects.
• Participated actively in campus leadership committees, such as the Instructional Team (Deans of Instruction and Technology) and the Department Chairs Council. As a result, the library is included in the planning and development of projects on campus.
• Served as a member of the Art Committee which judged and selected art for the new library. The Faculty Forum and the library annually purchase several award winning pieces of student art each year to build the library’s art collection.
• Chaired the Instructional Networking Task Force from 1995-97 and produced a report for the President covering all technology areas for instruction with short-term and long-term recommendations for the institution and its seven outlying centers in adjacent towns.
• Served as management team member for college-faculty contract negotiation, 1999.
• Worked directly with the Dean of the University Center to develop all areas of library support for B.A. and M.A. programs on campus. Negotiated funding, policies and procedures with brokering institutions for library support.
• Taught the first course on Internet research on the COCC campus in 1994. 

Library Development

• Worked directly with the Foundation on a Library endowment campaign. The resulting endowment directly supports the science collection and provides funding for expensive items beyond what would normally be purchased from library capital.
• Collaborated with the Grants Officer on grant proposals.
• Contacted companies and individuals for contributions.
• Oversaw special projects to build upper division collections.
• Created a Friends of the College Library group under the 501(c3) protection of the COCC Foundation.
• Developed library special collections and its collection of art.

Regional Work

• Participated in the Orbis Cascade Alliance Council of Directors. The Council hires the Executive Director and staff of the Alliance and directs the management of the consortium through regular council meetings with the Executive Director and the Executive Council. Elected to the Executive Council for 2004-6, re-elected to 2008.
• Represented the Central Oregon University Center, and now the joint campus with OSU on the Oregon University System Library Council composed of the seven public university library directors in Oregon, and was Chair, 1996-1998. Worked on budget and policy issues for the libraries and presented this to the Chancellor’s office, resulting in increases for serials budgets for the libraries.
• Served as regional leader for CORE – Connect Oregon, an ad-hoc state-wide committee working with the state legislature to provide access for electronic resources in all Oregon libraries.

• Served on the statewide database licensing committee for the negotiation of contracts with vendors. Served two years at the State Library on the LSTA Committee to read, evaluate and select grant proposals.
• Co-Chair of the Oregon Community College Library Association, 1994-7. Served on a task force that hired a technology consultant to analyze technology options for creating greater resource sharing, 1998-2001.
• Appointed to the State Library’s Oregon Information Highway Project Committee to address technology needs in Oregon libraries.
  

Boards and Council Activities

• Appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to be the Environmental Representative to the Steens Mountain Advisory Council for the 2006-2009 term. The council of twelve members negotiates land use issues and advises the BLM on the administration of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management Protection Area.
• Steens Mountain Advisory Council Science Committee 2007-2009.This committee of OSU scientists and others is advising BLM on science policy and information management.
• Board member for the Nature of Words, a regional institute featuring noted authors. Negotiated a partnership between COCC and the Nature of Words for sponsorship of the Rising Star writing awards program.

Professional History

• 1991-1993 Head, Technical Services and Library Systems, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California

Supervisor: John McPherson, Director

Participated in the planning and design of a new library. Upgraded and advanced technical services operations, including joining OCLC.  Managed a retrospective conversion project in advance of implementing a new Innovative Interfaces system. Organized all staff training. Met with regional telecommunications specialists and librarians to develop local Internet capacity and services to serve regional colleges and universities.

• 1989-1991 Head Systems Librarian, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Supervisor: Min-Min Chang, Head of Technical Services

Directed systems planning and management for main and 8 branch libraries in the Caltech system. Directed the implementation of the Innovative Interfaces system throughout the main and branch libraries. Hired assistant manager for systems and organized all staff training throughout the libraries. Managed a locally developed system for indexing journal table of contents data, and incorporated one of the earliest systems for patron initiated requests for the delivery of journal content.

• 1986-1989 Librarian for Systems, Acquisitions, and Collection Development, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California

Supervisor: John Murray, Director

Acquired foundation funds to purchase and install an integrated library system (Dynix). Directed collection development with faculty liaisons and managed acquisitions allocations and processes. Managed three staff assistants. Built extensive environmental philosophy collection that attracted private funds

Education

• M.L.S. Syracuse University, 1985.
• International Graduate Summer School. Summer study in Aberystwyth, Wales, 1982.
• B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz: Philosophy, 1976.

Advanced Training

• ACRL Harvard Leadership Institute, July 5-10, 1999.
• Northwest Commission for Accreditation Training, February, 1999.
• ARL Office of Management Studies: Basic Management Skills Institute, 1988.

Professional Consulting, Teaching, and Work with the Commission on Colleges

• Contracted consulting for WICHE and WCET projects working on the development of library services for virtual universities, 1997-2000.
• Served on accreditation site teams for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, with specialty in library and information technology standards since 1999.
• Taught at the Institute for the Management of Distance Education, Breckenridge, CO, July, 2000 session.

Publications

• Contributing author for “The Distance Learner’s Library” with John Witherspoon in The Distance Learner’s Guide, ed. by George P. Connick, Prentice Hall, 1998. Authored the revised chapter for the second edition published May, 2004.

• Review of Library Outreach, Partnerships, and Distance Education: Reference Librarians at the Gateway, by Wendi Arant and Anne Mosley. Doody’s Review Service (on-line).
• “ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute Report,” College and Research Libraries News (February 2000): 106-107.           

• “Distance Education” OLA Quarterly, 2:2, 1996.
• “Automated Acquisitions Systems: A Selected Guide to the Literature for Managers.” Contributed to the LAMA Preconference, “Automated Acquisitions: Managing Change,” July 7-8, 1988.

Presentations

• “Innovations for Distance Education Library Services,” Institute for the Management of Distance Education, Breckenridge, CO, July, 2000.
• “Library Services for Distance Education.” Online 99, Portland, OR, January, 1999.
• “Distance Learner’s Guide.” Online 99, Portland, OR, January, 1999.
• Introductory address for Vision 2000: Meeting of librarians serving distance education needs. Bend, OR, January, 1999.
• “ADA and Library Services at a Distance.”  Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, Portland, OR, November 8, 1999.

Community Involvement

• United Way Loan Executive, 1997-8.
• Deschutes County Bicycling and Pedestrian Council, 1994-1997.
• Tumalo Rim Home Owner’s Association Board President, 1999-2001.
• Various local site councils and hiring committees for local schools and libraries.
• Active participation in eastern Oregon land management issues and environmental concerns. Attend Steens Mountain Advisory Council and have regular meetings with local environmentalists and ranchers.