Andrew Hopkins Bullen -- CV 2017

Andrew Hopkins Bullen
CV 2017

Employment History

Aug. 1999- Illinois State Library Chicago, IL

Coordinator of Information Technology

Assistant manager of the Chicago Office of the Illinois State Library. Articles with the best writing are usually published directly at the main page of https://bestwritingservice.com/.
Plan, develop, and support Internet-based services to further the mission of the Illinois State Library and to support libraries throughout Illinois. See portfolio on right for information on specific projects.
Represent the Illinois State Library at meetings, conferences, and committees.

Dec. 1993-Aug. 1999 North Suburban Library System Wheeling, IL

Manager of Information Services

Planned, developed, and supported Internet-based services for NSLS. See previous projects on right for information on specific projects.
Developed a training and implementation plan for NSLS libraries to gain access to the Internet.

Feb. 1995-June 1998 Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL

Adjunct Faculty

Developed and implemented Internet, Microsoft Office, and other instruction courses.

1989- Dec. 1993 Center for Research Libraries Chicago, IL

Head of the Circulation Department

Managed the daily operations of the Circulation Department.
Supervised 2 professional and 6 para-professional librarians.
Represented the Center at meetings, conferences, and committees.

Publications

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. CDSS Magazine, Volume 17, May, 1987.
Database Techniques for Librarians. G.K. Hall & Co. 1993. ISBN 0-8161-1967-8
Articles from the American Morris Newsletter
1. An Interview with Graham Thomas of Vulcan's Hammer 28 (1) May, 2008
2. The Early History of the Town of Abbots Bromley 27 (3) December, 2007
3. The Morris Dancers 25 (4) December, 2005
4. Morris Dancing In Chicago 25 (4) December, 2005
5. Morris Dancing In Rural Illinois 25 (4) December, 2005
6. The Chicago Sword Dance 25 (4) December, 2005
7. Library Resources for Morris Research (with Mike Heaney) 25 (4) December, 2005
8. Morris Costume & Warfare 25 (1) April, 2005
9. The Poor Laws and the Waltham Black Act 25 (1) April, 2005
10. Early History of the Town of Abbots Bromley 27 (3) December, 2007
11. Historical Documents of Abbots Bromley 26 (3) December, 2006
12. EDSS Examinations and Syllabi 26 (2) August, 2006
13. ROS Maps & Morris 25 (3) October, 2005
Connecting the Real to the Representational: Historical Demographic Data in the Town of Pullman, 1880-1940 (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/29), in Code4Lib Journal, Issue 1, 2007-12-17
Bringing Sheet Music to Life: My Experiences With OMR (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/84), in Code4Lib Journal, Issue 3, 2008-06-23
The Long Tale: Using Web 2.0 Concepts to Enhance Digital Collections (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/oct08/Bullen.shtml), in Computers in Libraries, Volume 28, Number 9, October 2008
The World's Most Perfect Town Reconsidered: Negotiating Class, Labor and Heritage in the Pullman Community of Chicago (co-authored with Dr. Jane Baxter, Depaul University), in Heritage, Labour, and the Working Classes (http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/
details/9780415618113/. Edited by Laurajane Smith, Paul Shackel, and Gary Campbell. June, 2011
The Town of Pullman in Image File, A Journal from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives Volume 18, Number 1, June 2011.
A Doomsday Scenario: Exporting CONTENTdm Records to XTF (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november16/bullen/11bullen.html), in D-Lib Magazine, Volume 22, Number 11/12, November/December 2016.
Co-author, with Embrey, Theresa A.R. Music of World War I: Turning a Static Collection Into a Vibrant Resource (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may17/Embrey-Bullen--Music-of-World-War-I-Turning-a-Static-Collection-Into-a-Vibrant-Resource.shtml), in Computers in Libraries, May, 2017

Speaking Opportunities

Panelist & Speaker at the Railroad History & Archival Research: A Symposium, December 3, 2014. At the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
cdrh.unl.edu/news-events/railroads14
Speaker at the Code4Lib Conference, February 2008. "Bringing Sheet Music to Life With OMR"
www.niso.org/blog/?p=5
Speaker at the Illinois Library Association Annual Conference, 2007. Presentation: "A Tour of the Pullman Virtual Museum"
www.ila.org/pdf/2007program.pdf
Speaker at the National Genealogical Society Annual Conference, 2006. "The Illinois Digital Archives"
Connect to the conference program
Lecturer and Instructor in Thinking Outside the Borders: Library Leadership in a World Community, a Mortenson Institute sponsored symposium that brought together participants from libraries around the world.
A description of the Institute
Speaker at the Internet Librarian Conference, 1999. "Moving Out of HTML Into Database Solutions"
www.infotoday.com/il99/tuesday.htm
Speaker at the inaugural DevCONNECT OCLC Conference, May 8-9, 2017

Other Opportunities

Treasurer of the Chicago Area Archivists, 2017-2019
www.chicagoarchivists.org/committees
Illinois State Library's representive to the World War I Centennial Commission
www.worldwar1centennial.org/
Member of the Advanced Engineering Task Force of the Illinois Century Network. The AETF is an advisory board to the Illinois Century Network, a telecommunications backbone providing high speed data access in schools, libraries, museums, and universities, as well as local government and state agencies.
www.illinois.net/contact/aetc.htm
Instructor in the ILeadU program. ILeadU is designed to help library staff understand and respond to user needs through the application of participatory technology tools.
ileadusa.wordpress.com/
Contributor to Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL), an online series of continuing education audio lectures. My topic was "Digital Archives -- Search and Discovery: The Great Experiment: The Pullman Manufacturing Town" and was broadcast on 2.27.2009.
www.opal-online.org/progslis.htm
Participated in the development of the The Strategic Plan for Technology & Telecommunications for Illinois Libraries in 2003 and again in 2006.
Connect to the plan

Wikipedia Entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bullen

Contact Me

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Education

University of Chicago

1981-1986.
AB, Philosophy.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1989-1990.
MS, Library Science.

Skills

-- Perl

-- PHP

-- MySQL

-- Microsoft Office

-- HTML & CSS

-- Wordpress and Mediawiki

-- XML & JSON

-- ContentDM

-- dSpace

-- XTF

-- Linux, *nix

Personal Interests

Living in Pullman

Morris Dancing

Online Publishing

Music

The NearReal Exhibition

The NearReal Artists' Cooperative

IMDb Entry

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm8325790

Current Portfolio

Illinois Digital Archives

Electronic Documents of Illinois

EDI's search system, developed in XTF

XTF/search engine for EDI

Illinois Center for the Book

The Pullman State Historic Site

Using CONTENTdm's APIs

Illinois' World War One Commission

Music of the First World War

Research & Experiments

Scoping DPLA to Illinois

Using CONTENTdm's APIs for a Different UX

Converting CONTENTdm data to Linked Data

Previous Projects

Every Library in Illinois
Every Library in Illinois, a set of Perl programs that interfaced with a series of MySQL tables, supplied access to directory and statistical information concerning Illinois libraries collected by the Illinois State Library.
Illinois Government Information
http://www.finditillinois.org:2000/igi/simpleSearch.jsp
This was the primary search engine and spider for Illinois state and local government Internet-based information. I helped develop the software, working with a vendor. This service has subsequently moved to a Swish-E based platform.
The Virtual Illinois Catalog
http://www.vic.lib.il.us/
VIC was a Z39.50-based portal, which used OCLC's WebZ software, allowing users to search across Illinois libraries with one federated search. I developed this service. We now use a custom portal to OCLC's Worldcat, known as SILC: http://www.finditillinois.org/OCLC/.
NorthStarNet Community Information Network
http://www.northstarnet.org/
(July 1995-August 1999) I created the technological and menu structures to support NorthStarNet (NSN), a four county community information network. In addition, I set up the server backend and acted as the system administrator for the project. Because of the complexity of the NorthStarNet Community Information system and the lack of page design skills on the part of the community information providers, I created a automatic page generator and an automatic forms generator to help them overcome the hurdles of site creation.
Digitization Software at NSLS
http://www.digitalpast.org/
(July 1997-August 1999) I created this service as a search engine/cataloging system/DBMS of local history images for the 15 participating communities. In addition, I set up the server backend and acted as the system administrator for the project. I also created a Visual Basic metadata cataloging utility for the participants.
NSLS Internet Access
(December 1993-August 1999) I established Internet service for North Suburban Library System (NSLS) member libraries by working with an Internet Service Provider to establish an NSLS-based Point of Presence (POP), which eventually handled the Internet services of 12 56KBps, 14 28.8 leased line, and 150 PPP 28.8 dial-up accounts. I created the first NSLS WWW site (http://www.nslsilus.org) in October, 1994; I created the NSLS Gopher (gopher://gopher.nslsilus.org) in September, 1994; I created, populated, and maintained the NSLS FTP site (http://www.northstarnet.org/NSNDocs/ftp.html) I created a text-based menu system to allow users who did not have a graphical WWW browser to access information about NSLS and other library-related matters (telnet://nslsilus.org).