{"id":1584,"date":"2020-05-19T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:05:23","slug":"james-wiser-to-join-acu-as-dean-of-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/05\/19\/james-wiser-to-join-acu-as-dean-of-library\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wiser to join ACU as Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1586 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/05\/wiser-683x1024-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On April 20th <strong>Dr. Robert Rhodes<\/strong>, ACU Provost, announced the appointment of <strong>Mr. James Wiser<\/strong> as Dean of Library Information Services and Educational Technology effective August 1st. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since 2015 James has served as the Library Consortium Director for the Community College League of California, California\u2019s 115 community college libraries, which together serve 2.1 million students and more than 15,000 faculty members.\u00a0 Previously he held librarian and library-related positions at SAGE Publishing, SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium), Pepperdine University, and General Motors. James was instrumental in ACU\u2019s joining the SCELC Consortium as the first member outside of the state of California.\u00a0 He earned a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University in 2012, a Master of Library Science from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2002, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Harding University in 2000. In 2017, James co-authored and edited with Rolf Janke <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open Book: A Librarian\u2019s Guide to Academic Publishing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2017) Mission Bell Media, and he has published several journal articles related to library management and scholarly communication, and is a current member of the editorial board of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Serials Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He and his wife, <strong>Dr. Candice Ortbals-Wiser<\/strong>, incoming ACU University Scholar and professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, are the parents of two daughters: Etta, 4, and Marian, 2. They are members of the Camarillo Church of Christ in Camarillo, Calif.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 20th Dr. Robert Rhodes, ACU Provost, announced the appointment of Mr. James Wiser as Dean of Library Information Services and Educational Technology effective August 1st. Since 2015 James has served as the Library Consortium Director for the Community College League of California, California\u2019s 115 community college libraries, which together serve 2.1 million students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}