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Sharon Weiner
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Director, Peabody Library
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Research Interests
Academic library leadership; the role of the library in higher education; organization of the literature of emerging and cross-disciplinary fields.
Brief Biography
Weiner received her M.L.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1982. She is a doctoral candidate in the Higher Education Leadership program at Vanderbilt University.
Weiner assumed the position of Director of Peabody Library at Vanderbilt in 2002. She is Co-Chair of the Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute and Co-Chair of the National Forum on Information Literacy. She is Chair of the Special Libraries Association Education Division and Past President of the Special Libraries Association Southern Appalachian Chapter. She has been the principal investigator for a number of grant-funded projects.
Honors
Weiner is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She received the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship in 1999.
Selected Publications
Weiner, Sharon A. "Book Review: Quality and Performance Excellence in Higher Education: Baldrige on Campus," International Journal of Educational Advancement, 6(1):80-2, November 2005
Weiner, Sharon Gray, "Library Quality and Impact: Is there a Relationship between New Measures and Traditional Measures?" Journal of Academic Librarianship, 31(5):432-7, Sept. 2005.
Weiner, Sharon Gray, "The History of Academic Libraries in the United States: A Review of the Literature," Library Philosophy and Practice, 7(2), Spring 2005.
Gray Weiner, Sharon. "The Metamorphosis of Peabody Library." In Mosaic: The Many Facets of the Library. Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, 2004.
Weiner, Sharon Gray, "Leadership of Academic Libraries: A Literature Review." Education Libraries 2003, 26(2):5-18.
Weiner, Sharon Gray, "Resistance to Change in Libraries: An Application of Communication Theories." Portal: Libraries and the Academy 2003, 3(1):69-78.
Gray, Sharon and Teresa Abaid. "Building a Multicultural Media Collection." MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship 2002, 8(2).
Gray, Sharon A., Stewart Brower, Heather Munger, Amanda Start, and Pamela White. "Redefining Reference in an Academic Health Sciences Library: Planning for Change." Medical Reference Services Quarterly Fall 2001, 20(3).
Gray, Sharon A., Robert O'Shea, Mary E. Petty, and John Loonsk, "The Western New York Health Resources Project: Developing Access to Local Health Information," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 1998, 86(3):335-9.
Rose, Pamela, Kristin Stoklosa, and Sharon A. Gray, "A Focus Group Approach to Assessing Techno-Stress at the Reference Desk," Reference and User Services Quarterly 1998, 37(4):311-7.
Gray, Sharon A. Health of Native People of North America: A Guide to Resources. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. 400 p.
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