Necia Parker-Gibson

Librarian /Professor

(479) 575-8421

neciap@uark.edu

Education

May 1991: M.L.I.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Six hours toward C.L.I.S., 1991

May 1980: B.S.A., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Experience

Agriculture Librarian, Sciences Coordinator, 2013-

Social Sciences/Agriculture Librarian, 2008-13.

Social Sciences Librarian, 1998-2008

Associate Librarian, Reference Department, July 1997-2014 

Assistant Librarian, Library Instruction Coordinator, Reference Department, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Oct. 1991-June 1997

May-August 1991. Reference librarian and cataloger, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, Baton Rouge, LA. Half-time position

June-December 1989. Graduate assistant, Serials Department, Middleton Library, LSU Baton Rouge. Processed gifts and donations, checked in serials.



Service

University Committees:

Campus Council, chair, 2013-14 (academic year)

Campus Council, member, 2013-2014

Faculty Senate, At Large Senator, 2011-2014.

Public Safety Council member, 2009-2012

Faculty Panel, Complaint Procedures for Undergraduates Committee, member (2005-07)

ROCK Camp Advisory Committee, 2002-04;ConnectionsCommittee2000-02

Artists and Concerts Committee (1997-99) (chair, 1998-99) (2001, acting chair)

Campus Climate Committee (1992-94, chair; 1997-99, member)

General Education and Core Curriculum Committee (1996-99; chair, 1997-98)

Campus Library Committee (1993-95)



Library Committees:

OPAC and Web committees:

Web Development and Policy Committee, 2001-2002.

Library Homepage Committee, 1997- 2001.

• Design and usability issues, policies and procedures for the Libraries’ home page. This committee became the Web Development and Policy Committee, 2001.

OPAC Training Committee, 1993-2003/ OPAC Screen Design Committee, 1992-6

• Design and implementation of training and materials for Libraries’ first OPAC; personally coded and aided in design of screens for the first graphical interface of InfoLinks, our catalog.

Staff Development Committees:

Faculty Concerns Committee, (1994-96; 1999-2001, 2004-06, 2014-15). Chair, FCC (2000-1, 2005-6, 2014-15)

Student Training Committee, (2001- ), Ex-officio member

Library Human Resources Advisory Council, 2003- 2004

Employee Development Group, 2002-3

Chair, IRG #18, Faculty Scholarship, 2000-2002. IRGs 16 and 18 merged into the Employee Development Group, 2002

Initiative Review Group (IRG) #16, Staff Development and Training, 2000-2002

Collection Management Committees:

Sciences Group, 2008- . Chair, 2013- .

Social Sciences Collection Management Group, 2000-  .

COLERS Selection Subcommittee, 1993-2000; split into subject groups in 2000.

Instruction related Committees:

Chair, Instructional Services Task Force, 2004-06.

Chair, The Undergraduate Library Instruction Panel (TULIP), Spring 1993-1996.

Member, Reference Classroom Task Force (1993)

Other Committees: Evacuation Plan Committee, 2001; Materials Booking Implementation Committee, 2001.



Professional Association Membership and Service

Editor. Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian, a peer-reviewed journal of Haworth Press. 2007-2009

American Library Association, Member 1992- .

Member, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Member: Instruction Section (Reviewer, poster sessions for ALA conference, 1997-8, 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2006)

Member, Library Instruction Roundtable (LIRT)

Member, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Member, New Members Round Table, 1992-7. Liaison to RASD/MARS (1992-94); NMRT Leadership Dev. (1992- 5); Mentor, for NMRT New Librarians program, 2004; Mentor, for NMRT Career Mentoring Program, 2005

Arkansas Library Association, 1993-94, 1995-

Managing Editor, Arkansas Libraries, the journal of the Arkansas Library Association. 2004-2005.

Awards Committee, member, 2002, 2003. Presented awards at conference.

Chair, Reference Division, 2000, 2001. Planned state conference programming for division.

Conference Planning Committee, member, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010. Solicited and planned programming for the state conference.

Chair, College and University Libraries Division, 1999; Vice-chair/Chair-elect, College and University Libraries Division, 1998

• Chaired planning committee for division conference; recruited main speaker David Kohl, Dean of Libraries, Univ.of Cincinnati, who spoke about consortia. ArkLink, a state-wide consortium of academic libraries, was initiated at the meeting.

Special Libraries Association, 2009-

Food Agriculture and Nutrition Division, 2011-; Secretary, 2015-2016

Academic Division, 2012- .

Scholarship:

Books and book chapters:

Kirkwood, Patricia E. and Necia T. Parker-Gibson. (2013). Informing Chemical Engineering Decisions with Data, Research, and Government Resources. Series:  Synthesis Lectures on Chemical Engineering and Biochemical Engineering. p. 1-81. San Raphael, CA: Morgan & Claypool. Contribution level: 40%.

     This book received the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division’s annual award for Best Publication.

 “Library Presentation and Library Assignment.” (2005). IN Fundamentals of Communication. Lynn Meade, ed. New York: McGraw Hill Publishers, pp. 557-565.  My materials were added to the Communication 1313 (Basic Speech) textbook.

 “Qualities of a 21^st Century Librarian.” (2003). In Expectations of Librarians in the 21^st Century. Karl Bridges, ed. Greenwood Library Management Collection series. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, pp.161-5.

 "Think-Pair-Share Recipe," (1998). In Designs for Active Learning: A Sourcebook of Classroom Strategies for Information Education, 151-3. Gail Gradowski, et al., eds. Chicago: ALA

 "Dictionaries, or How Do You Spell Antidisestablishmentarianism?" (1998). In Training Librarians Using Hands-on Active Learning Exercises. eds. Anne Cerstvik Nolan and Marilyn P. Whitmore, 35-47. Pittsburgh, PA: Library Instruction Publications.

 "ACRES: Accessibility, Content, Relevance, Effectiveness and Stability of Internet Sites."(1997). In Unmasking the Internet for Research, Using Hands-on Active Learning Exercises, ed. Marilyn P. Whitmore, 123-133. Pittsburgh, PA: Library Instruction Publications.

Peer-reviewed articles or publications:

“Profiles in Science for Science Librarians: Barbara McClintock: Seeing What is Different." (2013). Science & Technology Libraries 32, no. 4: 315-329.

 “Hay: An Overview of a Vital Agronomic Crop. “ (2012). Journal of Agricultural & Food Information. 13, 2: 117-129. DOI: 10.1080/10496505.2012.666940

 “Library Mentoring and Management for Scholarship.” (2007). Library Philosophy and Practice. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/parker-gibson.pdf. 

As of January, 2015, this paper has been downloaded 1650 times.

 “From the Womb to the Web: Library Assignments and the Next Generation.” (2005). The Reference Librarian. 91/92: 83-102.

 "Library Assignments: Challenges that Students Face, and How to Help." (2001). College Teaching 49, 2: 65-70.

 "Reference and Media– Instruction by Any Means Necessary." (1999). The Reference Librarian. 65 : 61-78. 

"How to Sift Citations." (1995). College Teaching 43 (Summer): 106-109.

"Taking it to the Streets: Mobile CD-ROM Demonstrations on Campus." (1994) Research Strategies 12, 2: 122-6.

Peer-reviewed or Invited Presentations and Poster Sessions:

"Taking it to the Streets: Mobile CD-ROM Demonstrations on Campus." (1993). Poster Session, American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans

"Sifting for Themselves: Helping Patrons to Understand Citations." (1993). Presentation, Arkansas Library Association Conference, Hot Springs



"BI Retreat: From Mission to Method." (1995). Poster session, with Donna Daniels, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago

"Surveying the ACRES: Evaluation of Internet Sites." (1996). Invited presentation. Arkansas Library Association Annual Conference, Little Rock

"Evaluating Web Resources." (1998). Invited panelist, with Phillip Jones and Rachel Byrd Shankles; sponsored by the Southeast Library Association’s Library Instruction Roundtable, at Arkansas Library Association/Southeast Library Association Fall conference, Little Rock

"Library Assignments: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly." (1999). Invited panelist, with Art Lichtenstein and Rena Sheffer, at the Arkansas Library Association’s College and University Libraries Division conference, Little Rock



"Internet Evaluation." (1999). Invited presentation. Arkansas Library Paraprofessional Conference, Eureka Springs



"Diversity in Libraries." (2000). Invited presentation. Arkansas Library Association Conference, Springdale



"What Did That Student Have On That Screen?!" (2001). Invited panelist, College and University Libraries Division's panel, Arkansas Library Association Annual conference

“Employee Development for the Innovative Integrated Library System,”(2003) with Lorraine Lorne and Kate Klutz. Presentation, Innovative Users Group (IUG) Conference, San Jose, CA

“Chat: For Future Reference.”(2005).Invited presentation, with Donna Daniels. Arkansas Library Association Conference, Little Rock

Invited:

“From the Womb to the Web: Library Assignments and the New Generation.” (2005). In The Reference Collection: From the Shelf to the Web. William J. Frost, ed. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, an imprint of the Haworth Press, pp.83-102.  Published simultaneously as “From the Womb to the Web: Library Assignments and the Next Generation.” (2005). The Reference Librarian. 91/92: 83-102.

"Dictionaries, or How Do You Spell Antidisestablishmentarianism?" (1998). In Training Librarians Using Hands-on Active Learning Exercises. eds. Anne Cerstvik Nolan and Marilyn P. Whitmore, 35-47. Pittsburgh, PA: Library Instruction Publications.

Non-peer-reviewed:

Editor’s columns, Arkansas Libraries, 2004- .v. 61, 1:4, 2:4, 4:4. 2005- . v. 62, 1:4, 2:4, 3:4, 4:4.

“Qualities of a 21^st Century Librarian.” (2003). In Expectations of Librarians in the 21^st Century. Karl Bridges, ed. Greenwood Library Management Collection series. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, pp.161-5.

 "A Virtual Tour of Mullins Library."(1999). Web publication, University Libraries' home page. http://www.uark.edu/libinfo/training/tourstrt.html. Images created from photographs taken by Don Batson and Necia Parker-Gibson.1999. Revised in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006.

"Reference and Media— Instruction by Any Means Necessary." (1999). In Reference Services and Media. Martha Merrill, ed. 61-78. New York: Haworth Press, 1999. Published simultaneously as "Reference and Media– Instruction by Any Means Necessary." The Reference Librarian. 65 : 61-78.

"College and University Division Holds Meeting in Fayetteville." (1998). Arkansas Libraries 55 4 :14-16, with S. Kerr.



"ACRES: Accessibility, Content, Relevance, Effectiveness and Stability of Internet Sites."(1997). In Unmasking the Internet for Research, Using Hands-on Active Learning Exercises, ed. Marilyn P. Whitmore, 123-133. Pittsburgh, PA: Library Instruction Publications.

"Instructing Today's Undergraduates." (1996). Books and Letters: Newsletter of the University Libraries 10, no.2 (Fall): 2.



"Arkansas Chapter Councilor's Report from ALA Annual Meeting, San Francisco." (1997). Arkansas Libraries 54, 4: 24-5. (Attended as proxy for councilor and wrote report).



"Peer Review in Libraries." (1996).Arkansas Libraries 53, 1: 3-7. with L. Salisbury.



Other publications include: Welcome to Mullins Library; Citing Sources: A Brief Guide; a variety of subject-related Libguides and handouts, and book reviews, web documents and conference reports.                                                                                                                    

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