Summit on Serials in the Digital Environment

Brian E. C. Schottlaender

Brian E. C. Schottlaender has been University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since September 1999. Prior to joining UCSD, his twenty-plus year career in libraries included positions at the California Digital Library, UCLA, the University of Arizona, Indiana University, and Firma Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany, one of Europe's oldest and most respected library booksellers and subscription agents.

A member of the American Library Association (ALA) since 1979, Mr. Schottlaender has served on the Board of Directors of ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) since 1996. He assumed the Association's Presidency in July 2003. At the University of California, Mr. Schottlaender is Chair of the UC Libraries Collections Management Planning Group and a member of the Executive Committee of the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Schottlaender served as the ALA Representative to the international Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. In 1997 and 1998, he chaired the Program for Cooperative Cataloging at the Library of Congress. From 1999 through 2001 he served as Chair of the Pacific Rim Digital Alliance, and since 1999 he has chaired the San Diego Library Circuit. In 2001, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries, an organization comprising the leading research libraries in the United States and Canada.

Mr. Schottlaender has edited two books: The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Proceedings of the AACR 2000 Preconference (1998) and Retrospective Conversion: History, Approaches, Considerations (1992). He has contributed articles to various professional journals, including Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship and Journal of Internet Cataloging, and has spoken widely on collections, bibliographic access, and digital library issues.

Mr. Schottlaender obtained his B.A. degree in German Studies from the University of Texas, Austin in 1974 (ampla cum laude). He received his MS degree in Library Science from Indiana University in 1980, the same year he was admitted to Beta Phi Mu, the Library Science Honor Society. In 1995, he was one of fifteen individuals selected nationally to attend the Palmer School of Library Science at Long Island University as a Senior Fellow. Mr. Schottlaender was the 2001 recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation from the American Library Association for outstanding professional achievement in cataloging and classification.