James M. Wetherbee
411 Victoria Avenue
Monroe, NC 28112
2011-present
Library Journal
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.
1988-present
Wingate University
Wingate, NC 28174-0219
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.
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.
Adjunct Instructor. (2002-2003)
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.
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.