Miller, William 1947-

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Miller, William 1947-

PERSONAL:

Born January 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Julius (a naval purchasing agent) and Norma (a homemaker) Miller; married; wife's name Anne (marriage ended); married May 5, 2006; wife's name Kathleen (a librarian); children: Jessica, Miriam. Education: Temple University, B.A. (cum laude), 1968; University of Rochester, M.A., Ph.D., 1974; University of Toronto, M.L.S., 1976.

ADDRESSES:

Office—S.E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, P.O. Box 3092, Boca Raton, FL 33431. Agent—E-mail—miller@fau.edu.

CAREER:

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, supervisor in library circulation department, 1971-74; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, supervisor of medical library, 1975-76; Albion College, Albion, MI, reference librarian, 1976-80, assistant professor of English, 1977-80; Michigan State University, East Lansing, assistant head of reference department, 1980-81, head of reference and government documents departments, 1981-84; Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, associate dean of libraries and learning resources and associate professor of English, 1984-87; Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, director of libraries and member of governing board of Florida Center for Library Automation, both 1987—. University of South Florida, teacher of library courses. Florida State Library Network Council, member, 1995-98; conference speaker; contest judge.

MEMBER:

American Library Association (chair of bibliographic instruction section, 1984-85), Association of College and Research Libraries (chapter president, 1981-82; member of executive board, 1995-98; president, 1996-97), Southeast Florida Library Information Network (past president and treasurer), Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, English-Speaking Union (president of Boca Raton branch, 1992-94), Boca Raton Literary Society (president, 1996—), Torch Club of Boca Raton (president, 1996-98; member of executive board), Southeastern Library Information Network (governing board member, treasurer, 2007-08).

WRITINGS:

Citation Analysis of Humanities Literature: Implications for Collection Development, Blackwell North America (Beaverton, OR), 1977.

(Editor, with D. Stephen Rockwood) College Librarianship, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ), 1981.

(Editor, with Helen Laurence) Academic Research on the Internet: Options for Scholars and Libraries, Haworth Press (Binghamton, NY), 2000.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Joint-Use Libraries, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2001.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Cooperative Efforts of Libraries, Haworth Press (Binghamton, NY), 2002.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2004.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Innovations in Science and Technology Libraries, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2004.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Internet Reference Support for Distance Learners, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2004.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Libraries and Google, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2005.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Libraries beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2005.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Libraries within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations, Haworth Information press (Binghamton, NY), 2005.

(Editor, with Rita M. Pellen) Evolving Internet Reference Resources, Haworth Information Press (Binghamton, NY), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Marketing Instructional Services, edited by Carolyn Kirkendall, Pierian Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1986; The Evolving Educational Mission of the Library, edited by Betsy Baker and Mary Ellen Litzinger, American Library Association (Chicago, IL), 1992; and Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations, edited by Karen A. Wilson and Marylou Colver, American Library Association (Chicago, IL), 1997. Contributor to professional journals, including Library Administration and Management, Media Probe, College and Research Libraries, American Libraries, and Journal of Academic Librarianship. Contributing editor, Library Issues: Briefings for Faculty and Administrators, 1997—. Editor of academic column in Michigan Librarian, 1979-81. Choice, member of editorial board, 1979-82, board chair, 1980-82; member of editorial board, Michigan Librarian, 1979-82, and Library Administration and Management, 1986-90.

SIDELIGHTS:

William Miller told CA: "My writing has been focused on issues in librarianship, a field that has changed enormously since I entered it thirty years ago, and one that continues to change almost daily. I teach literature and writing also. My influences are George Orwell, E.B. White, and Hemingway—I try to simplify and shorten, and I always tell my writing classes about Mark Twain's remark in a letter to a friend: ‘I'm sorry this is so long; I didn't have time to make it short.’"