Curriculum Vitae

CV in html, pdf, odt, or doc format.

Librarianship

Since January 2008, I serve as Data and Economics Librarian for the Rutgers University Libraries. Prior to this, I was Business and Economics Librarian. Since 1999, I have been a member of the library faculty of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. I was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Librarian II in 2005. I hold an M.A. in Economics, an M.S. in Library Science, and am currently pursuing an M.S. in Statistics part-time.

I am the Research Data Manager for RUcore and lead the RUresearch Data Team. The RUresearch data portal provides access to research data produced by the Rutgers community. I work with researchers to archive data and advise on data management plans.

On the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus, I am responsible for social sciences data collections and Data Services. I am the subject specialist for and liaison to the Department of Economics, and the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. I manage the Libraries' collections, give instructional sessions, and help researchers and students locate information in these disciplines, and provide support for quantitative research across a range of disciplines.

For the latest in data news, read and subscribe to my RutgersData blog at Rutgersdata.wordpress.com. I also maintain the Libraries' research guide for Data and for Economics. You can also consult the archived Economics Newsletter for news updates.

Scholarship

This page highlights major publications. See the CV links above for complete and current publication details.

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Ryan Womack, "The Orientation and Training of New Librarians for Business Information", Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, volume 13, issue 3, 2008, pp. 217-226.
• Ryan Womack, "Basic Business Dictionaries Compared", Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, vol 10, no. 4, 2005, pp. 3-14.
• Ryan Womack, "Information Intermediaries and Optimal Information Distribution", Library and Information Science Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2002, pp. 129-155.
• Ryan Womack, "Bel Jour: A discipline-specific portal to periodicals", Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 21, no. 2, 2002, pp. 81-86.

Selected Additional Publications

• Mei Ling Lo, Li Sun, Ryan Womack, Connie Wu, and Tao Yang. "Celebrating Diversity, Welcoming the World: Developing Chinese Webpages at Rutgers University Libraries, 2009. CALA Occasional Papers Series, no. 5, June 2009.
• Ryan Womack (Editor), Success by the Numbers: Statistics for Business Development. Chicago: Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association, 2005. (RUSA Occasional Paper, number 28).
• Ryan Womack, "High Speed, High Price, High Demand: Business Internet Resources and Databases in American Academic Libraries", Proceedings of Central Asia 2002: Internet and Library, Information Resources in Science, Culture, Education, and Business, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, October 2002, pp. 37-41.

Selected Presentations

• Ryan Womack and Harrison Dekker, “Introduction to R”, IASSIST Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 31, 2011.
• Developed three-part workshop series on R for Rutgers students, offered to students and faculty across the University, from a wide range of science and social science departments. See my R page for workshop materials.
• Harrison Dekker and Ryan Womack, “Introduction to R”, IASSIST Annual Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 1, 2010. Handout by Ryan Womack: “Introduction to Data Manipulation in R”.
• Ron Jantz and Ryan Womack, “Designing Data Services for the Institutional Repository”, IASSIST Annual Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, June 2, 2010.
• "Doing Data on YouTube: Outreach and Education using Web 2.0", IASSIST/IFDO Annual Conference, Tampere, Finland May 27, 2009. 
• "High Speed, High Price, High Demand: Business Internet Resources and Databases in American Academic Libraries", Central Asia 2002: Internet and Library, Information Resources in Science, Culture, Education, and Business, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, October 16, 2002.

Grants

• Co-Principal Investigator, "Research and Instructional Support Across Disciplines: Data Services", 2009-2010 ($60,000 Academic Excellence Fund Grant to develop data services capacity on the Rutgers-Newark campus)
• Member, Video Mosaic Collaboratory project team, 2009- , ($3 million National Science Foundation Grant to develop video archive and analytic tool for Rutgers Graduate School of Education collection of mathematics instruction recordings)
• Co-Principal Investigator, Virtual Collaboratory for Food, Nutrition and Business Information, 2004-2008, (Rutgers course and web portal, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Higher Education Challenge Grants Program)

Service

I am an active member of IASSIST (the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology).
On the national level, I was once active in the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of the American Library Association, including a term as Chair.
See my CV for further details of local activity.

homepage: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rwomack

blog: http://rutgersdata.wordpress.com

LibGuides:
Data: http://libguides.rutgers.edu/data
Data Management: http://libguides.rutgers.edu/datamanagement

last updated: 6 April 2011