James M. Wetherbee
411 Victoria Avenue
Monroe, NC 28112
1988-present
Wingate University
Wingate, NC 28174-0219
Adjunct instructor: Cannon School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion. (2022-present)
Responsible for teaching a section of Religion 209: Morals and Meaning. The focus of the course has been on various ethical constructs of justice with Michael Sandel's Justice as the primary text. This focus is then turned to a specific issue. Such issues have included reparations and artificial intelligence. The role of religion in ethics is also presented using texts such as Mari Heidt's Moral Traditions and Paul Wadell's Happiness and the Christian Moral Life.
Assistant Director for Information Security and Library Systems Administrator. (2020-present)
Reflects a sift from network administration to user management, information security policy development and enforcement, coordinating information technology security activities, and security monitoring. This still includes responsibility for maintaining Active Directory and the integrated library system (III's Sierra) and and some reference duties and collection development responsibilities.
Network and Library Systems Administrator. (2011-2020)
Reflects an organization change in that I now report to the Director of IT rather than the Library Director. Responsibility for maintaining the integrated library system (III's Sierra) and library network, campus-wide network, Active Directory accounts, library accounts, assisting the Director of Instructional Design with the University's course management system (Canvas), network postmaster, maintenance of library computers and peripherals, implementation of new technologies, and some reference duties and collection development responsibilities.
Activities for 2020
Submitted ITS security policies to the CIO for publication to the Univesity
Activities for 2019
Continued to develop ITS security polices and procedures.
Developed an Access Control library for the University.
Improved the procedure for creating accounts for incoming students.
Expanded the use of SSO
Activities for 2018
Began the process of documenting IT policies and procedures
Decommissioned the University's three Wordpress sites as they moved to FinalSite (main website and IT) and Springshare (library)
Added quarantine rules for e-mail.
Added security monitoring responsibilities with the use of Akamai.
Migrated department shares from a local file server to Google Team Drives
Assigned department level Google Groups to Team Drives
Activities for 2017
Project Manager for migration from the Voyager ILS to Sierra
Migrated Faculty file shares from local server to Google Drive
Assisting in the migration from Moodle to Canvas, including
Establishing an SSO connection
Establishing a plan to migrate courses from Moodle to Canvas
Assisted the Director of Administrative Computing in the authentication piece of migrating EMS to the cloud.
Established SSO configurations for
Career Services (Purple Briefcase)
Tutor Scheduling Site (RedRock)
Residence Life (Adirondack)
Library ILS (Sierra)
Activities for 2016
Moved SP's associated with SimpleSAMLphp to AD/FS and so consolicated the Univesity's SSO implentation
Merged two file servers, one designed for departments and the other for individuals
Enabled Workfolders
Moved the Library and IT Wordpress sites to WPEngine and updated the themes
Created Firefox and Google Chrome GPO's for computer lab OU's
Edited a training video for AD Self Service
Setup SSL and the SSO for the implementation of Terra Dotta
Setup authentication for local implementation of CashNET (HigherOne)
Setup SSL and SSO for the implementation of Fusion (Innosoft)
Updated DirSync to Azure AD Sync
Worked to have the Security Group structure in AD better match the new University Organizational Structure
Activities for 2015
Consolidated AD structure
Implemented AD Self Service
Assisted in implementing Office 365
Voyager Upgrade
Assisted with the consolidation of the data center
Consolidated servers
Assisted with a pilot project with NCLIVE to test the feasibility of them hosting EZProxy
Extended single sign-on to EMS
Activities for 2014
Revised the Help Desk
Migrated the main file server
Deployed the staff file server
Activities for 2013
Single Sign-on for Campus Network, WingateApps, PowerCampus, OrgSync, and Pharos360 accounts
Assisted with upgrade of PowerCampus/WinLINK/myGate Portal
Created New myGate/IT website
Created a Help Desk website
Moodle Upgrade
Voyager Upgrade
Moved from Voyager Media Module to Voyager Short Loans
Migrated DNS to MCNC
Assisted with migrating to a campus-wide network printing system
Activities for 2012
Created a campus-wide backup strategy
Refreshed Moodle
Added an online Help Desk
Activities for 2011
Enhanced the Online Catalog to send SMS text messages for a book's call number and title.
Added a mobile skin to the library website
Information Systems Librarian. (1998-2010)
Responsibility for maintaining the EKSplorer (Ex Libris) integrated library system and library network, assisting the Director of IT in network administration for the Wingate University campus-wide network and University course management system (Moodle), network postmaster, library webmaster (including the design and upkeep of the Wingate University Library web-site), training, maintenance of library computers and peripherals, implementation of new technologies, and some reference duties and collection development responsibilities.
Activities for 2010:
Added spellcheck to Voyager
Added a mobile skin to Voyager
Streamlined the process of adding patrons to Voyager via PowerCampus
Streamlined the process of transferring fines and fees to the Bursar's Office
Moved the IT pages from the University Website to PowerCampus Portal (myGate)
Moved the LIbrary Portal from Sharepoint to Google Sites
Activities for 2009:
Upgraded the online catalog to Voyager 7.1.
Move the list of locally held periodicals from static HTML pages to a MySQL database visible via PHP pages.
Routed all database traffic through EZProxy and so enhancing our data collecting capacities
Changed IM-based Reference from Moodle to Meebo.
Implemented Wordpress on the Library web site.
Took advantage of the RSS capabilities of Wordpress and made the library homepage a dynamic PHP page.
Activities for 2008
Added Netlibrary records to the online catalog.
Replaced all NCLive@Home access with EZProxy.
Finished a refresh of the library web site.
Implemented a plan of distributed editing using Adobe Contribute.
Activities for 2007
Upgraded the OPAC stations to Linux-based thin clients
Upgraded the Library computer lab to use ultra-small form factor computers.
Upgraded online catalog to Voyager 6.2 (including a hardware upgrade)
Revamped the library's list of annotated list of web sites.
Activities for 2006
Assisted in the upgrade of the new OPAC/BI area in Reference.
Added a book review section to the library web site.
Added in-house RSS feeds to the library web site.
Converted the annotated list of web sites to MySQL/PHP
Revised the library home page and updated navigation.
Extended wireless access to most the the library, excluding the main stacks and the quite reading room.
Activities for 2005
Entered the Standardized Tests into the online catalog
Implemented off-campus access to non-NCLive databases through EZ-Proxy.
Implemented Moodle CMS
Activities for 2004
Upgrade the Library computer lab
Major rewrite of the Library web site.
Activities for 2003
Upgraded online catalog to Voyager 2001.2
Implemented a system of e-reserves
Upgraded technology in the Curriculum Material Center.
Activities for 2002
Implemented and electronic inventory system to work with the Voyager online catalog
Upgraded the OPAC stations
Revised the homepage to the online catalog to match the library's homepage.
Revised the annotated list of web sites to use a combination of static and dynamic asp pages.
Adjunct Instructor. (2002-2003): School of Business
Taught an introduction course to management information systems, variously labeled MIS 110 and CIS 110. The focus of this course was to present the fundamentals of management information systems and technology.
Reference/Systems Librarian. (1989-98)
Duties similar to those described but with more involvement in reference and less in library systems. Until 1995 had major responsibility for Reference and Collection Development when a new librarian was hired. Reference desk duty varied from fourteen to twenty-one hours per week. Other duties included bibliographic instruction and online searching. Bibliographic instruction was taken over by the new librarian in 1996. Online vendors included Ovid, Dialog, DataStar and EPIC. Online searching has been almost entirely been replaced by databases on CD-ROM or those offered by NC-LIVE. From 1989 to 1995 I also served as documents librarian for the Wingate's North Carolina Depository collection. Computer systems duties increased with the addition of the campus wide network in 1996, where I added network administration, postmaster and webmaster tasks. In addition to the systems duties described above, I had also been actively involved in migrating from OCLC First System to PRISM Service and in 1992 migrating the library's computer system from CISC to RISC architecture.
Reference/Serials Librarian. (1988/89)
Besides the reference duties described above, serials duties included control and development of the library's serials collection. During this time I the was project manager responsible for implementing the Inlex Integrated Library System and received the systems manager training in the MPE operating system with Hewlett Packard.
2011-2025
Library Journal
Reviewer. (2011-2025)
Spirituality and Religion Columnist (2016-2018)
From 2011 to 2015 and from 2019 to the present am a reviewer for Spirituality and Religion and have been a reviewer for Philosophy from 2012 to the present. Reviewers are assigned a title by their respective editors for a particular issue. There is no set number of reviews for a given year.
Until the column was cut in 2018, I selected from titles sent by Library Journal''s Spirituality and Religion's editor to be reviewed. I contributed about a half-dozen reviews per column. Column appeared five times a year.
1987/88
Bosworth Memorial Library
Lexington Theological LIbrary
Lexington, KY 40601
Graduate Assistant to the Librarian.
Duties included the MICROCON conversion project with OCLC, compiling a standing order union list for our local theological library consortium (TEAM-A), copy cataloging, and general aspects of theological librarianship. Also assisted in evaluating the library's holdings in missions and ecumenics.
1987/88
University of Kentucky
College of Library and Information Science
Lexington, KY 40506-0030
Master of Science: Library Science, August 1988.
Concentration on library reference services and information systems. Special focus on services provided by academic libraries.
1984-87
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Louisville, KY 40205
Master of Divinity, May 1987.
Academic concentration in philosophy, systematic theology and church history. Field education included Clinical Pastoral Education, parish and agency work.
1981-87
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Deerfield, IL 60015
Master of Arts, Philosophy of Religion, June 1987
Concentration on metaphysics and history of philosophy. Thesis topic was an analysis of Alvin Plantinga's ontological argument.
1977-81
Taylor University
Upland, IN 46989
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy of Religion, May 1981
Liberal arts study covering most of the offerings in philosophy and philosophy of religion.