Terry Metz
Vice President for Library and Information Services
Greetings. I am responsible for providing leadership for Wheaton College's Library and Information Services Division, both in support of the college's academic mission and in its management and operations.
I report to President Ronald A. Crutcher. I also maintain informal reporting relationships with Interim Provost Elita Pastra-Landis and Vice President for Finance and Operations Rick Wallick. My position holds faculty status, membership on the President's Cabinet, as well as membership on and/or chair of several committees addressing information services issue across the college, including: the Library, Technology, and Learning Committee and the Administrative Technology Committee.
I am convinced that information resources, services, and technology are a strategic asset for liberal arts colleges like Wheaton. Professionally, I'm particularly interested in the following topics:
- issues related to the integration of campus information services (e.g.,
libraries, information technology units, etc.) at liberal arts colleges,
particularly:
- leadership, and
- organization and organizational development, such as integration planning and the CLIR CIOs group
- assessing and benchmarking these integrated services
- library and information technology support of learning and teaching
- collaborative initiatives among liberal arts colleges, for example:
- the Oberlin Group,
- CLAC,
- NITLE, and
- shared facilities efforts, such as CNI's Collaborative Facilities Project
Prior to my arrival at Wheaton, I was employed for nine years at Carleton College. During that time I served in various library and technology roles on campus, including appointments as Interim College Libarian and Interim Director of Administrative Computing Services.
I served as Consortium Manager for Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC) from 1986-1992. CLIC is a non-profit academic library consortium in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of my employment, consortium members included: Augsburg College, Bethel University, the College of St. Catherine, Concordia University, Hamline University, Macalester College, and the University of St. Thomas.
My first professional employment was as a librarian at Hamline University's Bush Library in St. Paul, Minnesota, between 1981-1986.
I received B.A. degrees in business administration and geography from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1980, and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota in 1985.
You can see more about my past responsibilities as well as learn about my professional activities by skimming my vitae. I'm always eager to entertain your questions, comments, or information needs. You can contact me via the following methods: