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Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching & Professional Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Administration and Management
• Buildings / Facilities
• Copyright / Intellectual Property
• Evaluation of Service
• Graphic Materials: Maps / Art / etc.
• Information Literacy and Instruction
• Information Policy
• Information Systems and Technologies
• Information and Society / Culture
• Intellectual Freedom and Censorship
• LIS as a Profession
• Libraries and Society / Culture
• Philosophy
• Values
• and Ethics of LIS
• Reference and Information Services
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication

Research Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Intellectual Freedom and Censorship
• LIS Education and Programs

Dr. C. James Schmidt

Professor

C. James Schmidt received a bachelor's degree in philosophy, an MSLS from Columbia, did graduate work in political science and received a doctorate in library science from Florida State. His library career began in the public library in Flint, Michigan. He served as Associate Librarian at SW Texas State University, as Head, Undergraduate Libraries at Ohio State University, as Director at SUNY Albany, as University Librarian at Brown, as Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer/Director of RLIN at the Research Libraries Group, Inc., as University Librarian and Professor at San José State.

Dr. Schmidt is a member of the political science honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, and of the library science honor society, Beta Phi Mu. He received the Robert B. Downs award for outstanding contribution to the cause of intellectual freedom in 1991 and received the Norwin S. Yoffie Career Achievement Award from the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001. His research and teaching interests are intellectual freedom and academic libraries.

Courses Taught

• > [200] Information and Society
• > [230] Issues in Academic Libraries
• > [234]Intellectual Freedom Seminar
• > [281] Seminar in Contemporary Issues [Information Policies in a Globalized Information Society]
• > [289] Advanced Topics in Library & Information Science (Culminating Experience)

Education

• PhD. Florida State University
• Graduate Study - Political Science, University of Texas and Ohio State University
• M.S.L.S. Columbia University
• B.A. Catholic University

Academic & Professional Experience

• Professor, San José State University School of Library and Information Science (1999-)
• Acting Chief Information Officer, San José State University (1995-1996)
• University Librarian and Professor, San José State University (1992-1999)
• Owner/Principal consultant, Schmidt and Associates (1989-)
• Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Director of the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN),Research Libraries Group, Inc., Stanford, CA. (1981-89)
• University Librarian, Brown University (1979-1981)
• Director of Libraries, State University of New York at Albany (1972-1979)
• Head, Undergraduate and Branch Campus Libraries, Ohio State University (1967-1970)
• Associate College Librarian, Southwest Texas State University (1965-67)
• Head Reference Librarian, General Motors Institute (1965)
• Assistant Librarian, Business and Industry Department, Flint (Michigan) Public Library (1963-1965)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

• Schmidt, C. J. (2000, March). Media rating schemes: Industry self-defense/regulation useful for or useable by libraries? Libri, 50, 26-51.

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