Charles Pennell
1409 Bloomingdale Drive
Cary, North Carolina 27511-5953

Phone (work): (919) 515-2743
Phone (home): (919) 469-2826
Email: cpennell@unity.ncsu.edu
Web: http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/chuckhome.html


  Personal data

Date of birth : 20 February 1949
Citizenship : dual, U.S.A./Canada
Marital status : married to Joan Thrush Pennell; 3 children


  Education

M.L.S. (1975) : University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science
A.B. (1971) : Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. Major: geology


  Honors

    North Carolina State University Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi


  Experience

NCSU Libraries
North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-7111

December 1997-
Position: Head, Cataloging Department
Duties: Reports to Associate Director for Collection Management, Organization and Preservation. Manages cataloging operation involving 25.5 permanent and several contractual staff. Currently serve on Collections and Technical Services Heads, Management Council, Government Information Services Committee, Information Technology Advisory Council, ILS Management Committee, Web Redesign Team, University Housing Committee.

Queen Elizabeth II Library
Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, NF A1B 3Y1

July 1997-November 1997
Position: Head, Acquisitions/Cataloguing Division
Duties: Reporting to Associate University Librarian, managed monograph processing stream from ordering through Cataloguing to labeling. Division consisted of 27 full-time staff, plus student assistants. Served on Unicorn Working Group, Division Heads Group, Library Administrative Council, Library Web Team.

November 1991-June 1997
Position: Head, Cataloguing Division
Duties: Managed day-to-day operations of Cataloguing Division consisting of 16-23 full-time staff, plus student assistants and contractual employees. Developed Cataloguer's Toolbox, first library technical services website in Canada. Served on Systems Committee, Promotion & Tenure Committee, Circulation Working Group, Integrated/Open System Task Force (Chair), Unicorn Working Group, Division Heads Group, Library Administrative Council, WebCat Committee, Library Web Team, Senate Bookstore Committee.

May 1991-November 1991
Position: Cataloguer
Duties: Original cataloguing of monographs and scores.

Helene Fuld Nursing Library
St. Boniface General Hospital

Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A7

March 1989-April 1991
Position: Librarian
Duties: Reporting to Administrative Manager, Nursing Education Resources, performed both public and technical services roles in small special library. Supervise staff of three library technicians, one volunteer. Responsible for retrospective conversion of collection and for implementation of Unisys PALS within Nursing Library. Public service function included bibliographic instruction, database searching via Dialog and Silver Platter.

Training Division, Winnipeg Police Dept.
Winnipeg, MB

December 1988-February 1989
Position: Consultant
Duties: Set up, weeded and catalogued small law enforcement library for staff of city police department.

Red River Community College
Library Training Programme
Winnipeg, MB R3H 0J9

November 1988-January 1989
Position: Teleconference Instructor (sessional)
Duties: Using teleconference equipment, taught introductory course to rural librarians throughout province interested in upgrading their library skills through certificate programme.

Villanova University
Falvey Library
Villanova, PA 19085

March 1986-July 1988
Position: Head, Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control
Duties: Reporting to Director, managed department made up of 3.5 FTE professionals, 5 FTE paraprofessionals, and 13 student assistants. Implemented and oversaw bibliographic integrity of Geac database of approximately 500,000 records. Performed original and complex copy cataloguing of monographs, serials, A-V and theses using LCC, LCSH, OCLC, Geac and Bibliofile. Served on Systems Council and Evaluation Committee.

University of Delaware
Morris Library
Newark, DE 19711-5267

October 1984-March 1986
Position: Wing STC Project Manager
Duties: In charge of planning and local operations for Higher Education Act Title 2c project to recatalogue some 5842 titles from University Microfilm's set, Early English books, 1641-1700 (Wing) into OCLC. Responsible for training and evaluating staff, on-going cataloguing, revision of the work of 1 professional and 2 paraprofessionals, liaison with 3 other universities.

Memorial University of Newfoundland
Queen Elizabeth II Library
St. John's, NF A1B 3Y1

November 1981-August 1984
Position: Head, Cataloguing Division
Duties: Supervised department consisting of 5 professionals, 17 clerical and paraprofessional staff members. Memorial performed original and copy cataloguing of some 30,000 titles per year via UTLAS. Members of SHARAF, a cooperatively maintained automated authority file, linked to bibliographic records. Served on Committee on Catalogue Access (Chair), Systems Committee, and Terms and Conditions Review Committee.

March 1976-November 1981
Position: Cataloguer, Cataloguing Division
Duties: original cataloguing of monographs and serials, microforms, government documents, A-V, and rare books having to do with Newfoundland. Collections development responsibility for Geology materials.

Univ. of Toronto/York University Joint Program in Transportation

May 1975-August 1975
Position: Research Assistant, Information Services
Duties: Helped organize technical report collection; conducted TRIS searches via Dialog for research faculty.

University of Toronto
Faculty of Library Science

January 1974-April 1975
Position: Cataloguing Assistant (part-time)
Duties: performed routine LC NUC searches, some original cataloguing using Dewey and LCSH.


  Professional service

2001. NCSU Design Slides Database Project. Presentation for Library Association of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (LAUNCH) Research Forum, 16 May 2001.

2001. Developing a controlled subject vocabulary for library Web content. Presentation for Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, 17 November 2001.

1996-1997. St. John's InfoNET (FreeNet)- Chair of the Information Provider's Committee. Involves liaison with non-profit community groups, training staff in HTML, finding volunteers to design and maintain home pages, creating websites for some agencies.

1994-1995. Newfoundland Provincial Wildlife Division- implemented networked version of InMagic to control small library collection (6000 books and technical reports + 15,000 periodical articles).

1993. Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archivists- all day workshop on use of microcomputers in archives and small libraries.

1991-1993. Cataloguing session, Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service, Library Technician teleconference course.

1987. Tri-State College Library Consortium Annual Conference, St. Charles Boromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, PA.- organized one-day conference with theme of professional development and networking for Library Assistants.


  Professional affiliations

  • Newfoundland Library Association (1976-1984; 1991-1997)
  • Atlantic Provinces Library Association (1976-1984)
  • Manitoba Library Association (1988-1991)
  • Canadian Library Association (1982-1987)
  • American Library Association (1983-present)
    • Association of College and Research Libraries
    • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
    • Library and Information Technology Association

  Publications

ArtMARC sourcebook: Cataloging art architecture and their visual images. [Review] Library collections, acquisitions & technical services 1999 Fall; 23 (3): pp. 378-379.

"Cataloguing beyond the walls", a presentation made to the Atlantic Provinces Library Association, 25 May 1997. URL: http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/catnet/

Cataloguer's Toolbox, the World Wide Web homepage of Memorial University of Newfoundland Bibliographic Services Division. Oldest Library Technical Service homepage in Canada. URL: http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/. January 1995-

"The Cataloger's Desktop suite" with J. Roper. OCLC systems & services 2001; 17 (2).

"Coping skills for cataloguers", a presentation made at Access Y2K, held in St. John's, Newfoundland, 22 September 2000. URL no longer active.

Discography of blue grass sound recordings, 1942- . URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/BGdiscography/.

"Issues and innovations in electronic theses and dissertations" [Review] Library collections, acquisitions & technical services 2000 Win.; 24 (4): pp. 514-515.

"The last frontier : cataloguing the 'net' and implications for cataloguing operations". Invited article for University of Windsor Leddy Library electronic newsletter. July 1995

Editor of MHLA news (ISSN 0848-9009), 1989-1991.

Compiler of Union list of videorecordings in MHLA libraries. 1990.

Editor and compiler of Union list of selected serials of the Manitoba Health Libraries Association (ISSN 0843-2864), 1991.

"Map production in Newfoundland and Labrador" (paper given at the Association of Canadian Map Librarians annual meeting in Halifax, N.S., 1981). ACML Bulletin, no. 41, Dec. 1981. pp. 42-46.

JPTRS: the Joint Program in Transportation Retrieval System (with John Shipman, Ann Poole). Research report ; no. 35. Toronto : University of Toronto/York University Joint Program in Transportation, 1976.

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Document author: Charley Pennell
Last modified: 9 March 2004
Document URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/hillwilliam/resumecp.htm