brooks

Assistant Vice President for Information Technology: Online Learning and Libraries, Marshall University Information Technology, Drinko Library 306, One John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755, 304.696.6474 (office) or 304.690.1662 mobile, brooks@marshall.edu.
Report to the Senior Vice President for Information Technology and oversee the university libraries public and technical services areas, Morrow Library, and Research Services; oversee the MuOnLine e-course program and facilitate faculty development and involement in teaching and learning with technology. Ongoing service initiatives include Level I Grievance Examiner since 2009; board member for the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia; Appalachian Studies Association member; 2007-08 vice-chair of the WV-Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries and incoming President of the West Virginia Library Association. Research interests include higher education personnel administration, library science-- especially curriculum development, race, gender, & ethnicity issues in Appalachia, the migration of Mexicans to WV, and online course delivery methods, design, and instruction. Personal projects encompass some unique areas such as family circus, La Carpa Garcia: Mexican-American Tent Show, 1914-1947, previously exhibited at the Witte, Hertzberg, and Bullock Museums in San Antonio, Texas from 1998 to 2006 and the history of the Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel Home from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Homes of Tomorrow exposition; research and photographs pertaining to the Stran-Steel House  were included in an exhibit entitled Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008.

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