Andrew Hopkins Bullen -- Current Curriculum Vitae

Andrew Hopkins Bullen
Current CV

Employment History

Aug. 1999- Illinois State Library Chicago, IL

Coordinator of Information Technology

Assistant manager of the Chicago Office of the Illinois State Library.
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 Historical Documents of Abbots Bromley 26 (3) December, 2006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

Illinois & the Great War: the Centennial of Illinois's Contributions published in the Newsletter of the Illinois Heritage Association: Volume 26, Number 2, March-April, 2018.

Co-author, with Valentino-Barry, Carol, Joseph Barnas, and Barbara DiGuido Partnering to Preserve Our High School's Heritage in Computers in Libraries, November, 2018

Successful Grants

(LSTA Funded, 2007) Industrial Heritage Archives of Chicago's Calumet Region. (http://www.pullman-museum.org/catalog/). The initial project which digitized and created metadata for 2,337 images of the Pullman Company and the Acme Coke and Steel Company. These records are available through the Digitial Public Library of America (DPLA) as well as the Illinois Digital Archives (Calumet Heritage Project, the Pullman State Historic Site , and Southeast Chicago Historical Society.).

(LSTA Funded, 2010) The Pullman House History Project. (http://www.pullmanmuseum.org/phhp/). The Pullman House History Project (PHHP) documents demographic information about all dwellings in the town of Pullman (now neighborhood, between 103rd and 115th streets in Chicago) that housed residents or businesses. It uses as primary source material the 1883 and 1889 city directories, the 1894 strike canvass, the 1916 phone books, and U.S. censuses from 1900 to 1940. There are more than 41,000 records in the data set. Example: 11145 S. St. Lawrence.

(ISHRAB Funded, 2015) The Pullman House History Project. This grant assisted in the normalization of heterogeneous census data, such as the nativity of personal names and professions. Example record.

(Landmarks Illinois, 2017) RES Study. Grant funding for an engineering study for Building #4 of the Pullman State Historic Site.

(National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2017) RES Study. Grant funding for an engineering study for Building #4 of the Pullman State Historic Site.

(Dailey Foundation, 2018) Digitization of the Horn Collection. (http://www.pullman-museum.org/pshs/pshsGetCollection.php?collection=Dailey). This project digitizes and creates metadata for approximately 6,000 images of Pullman passenger cars.

Speaking Opportunities

CONTENTdm Community Insights: Building narratives with CONTENTdm https://vimeo.com/488695516/40b24193f2, December 8, 2020

Virtual Meetup: How to Create Digital Exhibits with Library Collections and Archives http://chicagoarchivists.org/event-3692948, February 20, 2020

Speaker at the 20th Annual Conference on Illinois History, October 4 & October 5, 2018

Speaker at the inaugural DevCONNECT OCLC Conference, May 8-9, 2017

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

Other Opportunities

Member of the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board (ISHRAB), 2018-

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