Jason S. Price is Interim Library Director at the Claremont Colleges Library. He earned a doctorate in plant evolutionary ecology from Indiana University Bloomington where he gained in depth experience as a teacher and researcher before pursuing a Masters in Library Science. He thoroughly enjoys applying hard won analytical skills to current library challenges. His role as Electronic Resource Consultant for the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium provides opportunities to work with libraries, consortia and publishers to improve products and increase pricing equity. A practiced dabbler, he enjoys being involved in as many levels of academic library teaching and research as he can handle (and sometimes a few more!). He has been publishing and speaking about electronic resource usage, discovery and access since 2005. detailed contributions to the field [pdf]
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Biography
Employment History
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Sep 2006 - Present
- Electronic Resource Consultant (July 2012 -
- Lead a team to select a consortial knowledgebase provider
- Maintain e-resource package lists
- Support consortial usage statistics portal use
- Electronic Resource Analyst (Half-time, Aug 2011 - June 2012)
- Negotiate pricing models for eresource collections in many formats
- Work with libraries on offers, pricing, access & payment issues
- Co-develop consortial usage statistics harvesting & analysis tool (Pubget Paperstats)
- Develop management tool for ejournal package pricing and access terms
- Explore feasibility of a private SCELC LOCKSS network to archive e-content
- Electronic Resource Consultant (Sep 2006 - Jul 2011)
- Consulted on ejournal package offers and renewals
- Developed a new journal pricing model now in use by many consortia and publishers
- Evaluated ebook aggregators and patron driven acquisition on multiple levels
- Created and maintained consortial shared ejournal packages based on usage
- Served as consultant for the thrice-yearly Product Review Committee
Claremont, CA, United States
Jan 2004 - Present
- Library Director (Interim, July 2012 -
- Work with Governance task force to define new library governance model
- Facilitate hire of permanent AJ McFadden Dean of the Library
- Complete WASC interim accreditation report
- Develop three year budget to integrate endowment proceeds into annual materials budget
- Assistant Director of Collection Services (Aug 2012 -
- Responsible for Acquisitions, Cataloging & Collections departments
- Overseeing ongoing transformation of workflows and job roles
- Support for cutting edge Collection Management plan & implementaion
- Assistant Director of Operations & Management (Half-time, Sep 2011 - June 2012)
- Manage $10M library budget; library wide statistics and analyses
- Serve as sciences collection librarian as well
- Collections & Acquisitions Services Manager (May 2008 - Aug 2011)
- Built & implemented an E-Resource Acquisition Tracking System
- Developed a collection evaluation system to support collection management and faculty review of our entire subscription portfolio
- Transformed a $5M collection budget
- Consolidated responsibilities & redesigned workflow for 10 direct reports
- Director of Information Technology (Interim, Apr 2007 - Apr 2008)
- Recovered rapidly from a website SQL injection attack my first day (no fooling)
- Hired four outstanding staff who are core members of the new team
- Created extensive documentation site for IT Staff support
- Accomplished transitions of ADUC, Exchange, helpdesk & backup system
- Implemented significant infrastructure and hardware optimization improvements
- Managed eight direct reports
- Science and Electronic Resources Librarian (Jan 2004 - May 2011)
- Embedded librarian (20% time) for Keck Graduate Institute
- Served as TA, research mentor, statistics consultant & co-author (Pomona)
- Developed course-integrated 'citing the literature' workshop (Joint Sciences)
- Taught a seminar course & served as Adjunct Professor (Harvey Mudd)
- Managed, renewed, and reallocated all 'big-deal' ejournal packages
- Managed the link resolver and A-Z list for many ejournal packages
Bloomington, IN, United States
Jun 1994 - Dec 2003
- Life Sciences Library Intern (2001-2003)
- Supported remote access, citation management software & current awareness tools
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Provided instruction for graduate research lab groups and undergraduate lab courses
- Adjunct Professor (1998, 2000)
- Co-developed and co-taught two new courses
- Evolution & ecology of insects
- Agricultural biotechnology
- Co-developed and co-taught two new courses
- Associate Instructor (1994-2001)
- Taught 12 lab courses: Biology (4), Ecology (1), Fungi (4), Microbiology (3)
- Developed lab sessions, lead discussions, facilitated student design of experiments, helped students use primary literature and improve their scientific writing, developed review questions and sessions, wrote and graded exams
Education
Bloomington, IN, United States
Jun 1994 - Jun 2003
PhD, Evolution, Ecology & Behavior; MLS, Library Science
Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Sep 1988 - Jun 1993
BA, Evolution/Ecology and Anthropology
Research: Evolutionary Ecology of Disease Resistance
Dissertation Chapters
Awards, Fellowships, Grants & Academic Honors
Continuing Research & Education
Research Associate
Jul 2004 - Jun 2014
RSABG's Research Department includes a number of research associates who are mostly scientists at other southern California colleges, universities, gardens and research institutions.
GIS for Landscape Ecology
May 2005
Four-day intermediate-level workshop for faculty, instructional technologists, and librarians. University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
Information Literacy Immersion - Teacher Track
Jul 2004
Software Skills
Scholarship: Evolutionary Ecology
Scholarship: Usage & Collection Analysis
Scholarship: Discovery, Access & Analysis Tools
Scholarship: Ebooks & Ejournals
Scholarship: Library Perspectives
Service: Advisory Boards & Working Groups
Miscellany
Innovative thinking
References
Education
Dissertation overview
Prospectus, Abstract & Preface (pdf)
Defense (ppt)
Continuing Education
Skills
Obtain your cure for analysis paralysis today. [Analytical Graphics Inc. ad.]
Decline (xkcd.com)
Research Presentations
PDA promotes collection use
Video of 2011 SCELC Colloquium Presentation (Flash - 17 min)
See Presentations: The evidence is in... for slide deck
Featured Publications
Service & Consulting
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