James G. Neal
Part I: Opening Remarks
James G. Neal has recently taken a position as the Sheridan Director at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University. From 1989 to 1995, he was the Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University, where he provided administrative leadership for a system of 57 libraries on eight campuses supporting over 100,000 students and 3,700 faculty. He has also held administrative positions in the libraries at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Notre Dame, and the City University of New York. A 1969 Russian Studies graduate of Rutgers University, Neal did his graduate work in history and library science at Columbia University. He holds positions of leadership in several professional organizations, including the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the American Society for Information Science and the Library Administration and Management Association. Current professional activities include President of the Library Administration and Management Association (1992-93), and attendance as the head of the Indiana delegation at the 1991 White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services.
A frequent conference speaker, consultant and published researcher, his areas of focus have been workforce planning for libraries, the development and implementation of new information technologies, human resource development, and international librarianship. He is co-editor of the new JAI Press series on Advances in Information Technology. He is also a member of the faculty at Indiana’s School of Library and Information Science, teaching courses in academic librarianship, strategic planning, research in librarianship, and personnel administration.
