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William T. O'Malley Chair and Coordinator of Technical Services Professor William T. O'Malley joined the faculty of the University of Rhode Island Libraries forty years ago in 1966. He has degrees from Boston College and the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Professor O'Malley has risen in the ranks of the University Library system and has served as an Order Librarian, Serials Librarian, Cataloger, and until 1998 as the Collection Management Officer. His career at URI mirrors all the innovative and technological changes that have occurred over the past forty years in library science and as the Coordinator and Chair of Technical Services for most of those years as well as serving a term as Interim Director of Libraries, Professor O'Malley spearheaded the drive to URI's technologically sophisticated information future. As Chair and Coordinator of Technical Services since 1998, Professor O'Malley has led the University and the Higher Education Library Information Network of RI (HELIN) Library Consortium to the best in library service that cost effective technology offers. Professor O'Malley is also a research scholar in the area of Anglo-Irish literature and bibliography. He has edited an acclaimed volume on worldwide dissertations dealing with Anglo-Irish literature. He has also edited and/or contributed to the annual bibliography of Anglo-Irish literature published in the Irish University Review from 1984 until 1993. He is also an avid book collector especially of Irish author Francis Stuart who has been the focus of an ongoing bibliographic project. Professor O'Malley continues to present academic papers at national and international conferences. He recently presented "Irish Literary Magazines, Censorship, and the Irish Free State 1922-1924," in a paper delivered in 2003 at the Glasgow Conference on Places of Exchange: Magazines, Journals and Newspapers in British and Irish Culture, 1688-1945. Professor O'Malley has also taught Technical Services in the URI Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and he taught the forerunner of URI 101 in the undergraduate curriculum (An introductory course for URI freshman and transfer students titled "University Communities".) He also regularly serves as a consultant to other libraries on appraising, acquiring and selling academic library collections. As a founding member of the University's chapter of the American Association of College and University Professors, Professor O'Malley has served as President of the local chapter and has served on the executive board. In his current role as Chair and Coordinator of Technical Services, Professor O'Malley serves on the HELIN Mangers' Committee, the URI Library Managers' Group, and the URI Office of Information Services Directors' Committee.
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