Wesley Allen Doak
- Online Master Resume -
Education/Certifications
Undergraduate. [Music/American Literature]
Yankton College
Graduate. Library & Information Science [MLIS]
Massachusetts Board of Library Examiners
Post Graduate. Program Management [CPM]
University of California, Davis
Fundraising/Grantsmanship
NSFRE's Certified Fundraising Executive [CFRE]
Archives & Records Management
National Archives & Records Administration [NARA]
Other Education; CSUS, UCLA, Occidental College,
Immaculate heart College, BYU, Harvard, MIT
Memberships
American Leadership Forum; Senior Fellow
Alliance for Community Media
National Society of Fundraising Executives. CFRE
American Library Association
[Life Member]
California Library Association
[Member since 1967]
Special Library Association[Member since 198x]
Macnexus
Sacramento PC Users Group
New Media Masters
Electric Frontier Foundation
Freedom to Read Foundation
HTML Writers Guild

Work History

1998-present

Technology Consultant to Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, i-Homework.org (start-up) and the Congress of California Seniors

1997-present

Adjunct Faculty, Sacramento City College [Library Science & IT]

1992-present

Development Director/MediaLab Director, Access Sacraemnto, the Sacramento Community Cable Foundation. Senior Planner "sacramento.org" [electronic community network], home of the Official Sacramento Homepage and the Official Sacramento Calendar on the WWW

1983-1991

State Librarian, State of Oregon; CEO, Oregon Economic Information Network and Executive Director, Oregon Center for the Book

1973-1983

Chief of Library Development, California State Library/California Department of Education

1972-1973

Instructor and Course Planner in "IT/New Media/Library Automation" UCLA Graduate School of Library & Information Science

Military Service

U.S. Navy Air Corps AOU3

Honorable Discharge

Awards, Citations

Nowell Davis Trophy. Unit Citation for VP814

Selected Activities, Awards, Fellowships: (P)=personal (I)=Institutional

Advisory Board "Project Mediabase"

(I)

National Commission on Libraries…

Author/Editor-in-chief

(I)

"Oregon Shines; Developing a Global Culture"

Board Member

(P)

Oregon Historical Society

Board of Directors

(P)

State Management Association [Oregon]

Boyle Hutchinson Award

(P)

California Library Association

Cambridge Technology Fellowship

(P)

Harvard/MIT High Tech Project

CEO Panel

(P)

Oregonian Newspaper

Citizen Ambassador; Europe

(P)

US Dept. of State [Media/Tech Assessment]

Citizen Educator of the Year

(P)

Oregon Education Association [1990]

Friends Organization of the Year

(I)

Friends Of Libraries USA [FOLUSA]

Good Government Award

(I)

Governor's Award, and Keynote Speaker

Historic Preservation Award

(P)

Secretary of State [Oregon]

Honorary Delegate

(P)

White House Conference on Libraries....

Intellectual Freedom Award

(I)

American Library Association

Keynote Speaker

(I)

ITVA National Conference, Las Vegas, NV

Librarian of the Year Nominee

(P)

Library Journal

Libraries Of Tomorrow Project

(P)

Apple Computer, Inc.

McCarthy Award

(P)

National Council of State Governments

Melvil Dewey Award Nominee

(P)

American Library Association

Principal database Consultant

(P)

Howard Hughes' "El Segundo Project"Interactive Cable Television

Senior Fellow

(P)

American Leadership Forum

"Showcase" Exhibit

(I)

Government Technology Conference

"States of the Nation" Project

(I)

Congress/Librarian of Congress

Statewide Advisory Board

(P)

CE/Distance Learning [1989-1991] Portland State University

Task Force Member

(P)

Project Literacy USA (Oregon)

TechnologyTask Force

(P)

Governor's Office [Atiyeh-Oregon]

Technology/Information Sciences Technology

(P)

National Library of the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing and Fujian Provincial Library in Fujou.

"Townwatch 1980" Sacramento

(P)

Panelist with Buckminster Fuller, "Technology and Citizenship"

Trustee [Organization] of the Year

(I)

American Library Trustees Association

Volunteerism Award

(I)

Governor's Office [Goldschmidt-Oregon]

Website Award

(P)

Hometown Award (#1 in Nation) for sacramento.org web site

Who's Who....

(P)

Numerous

Continuing Education

Cambridge Technology Group (3 12-hour days)

Harvard/MIT joint project, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Western Regional Workshop (Kellogg Project) (3 1/2 days)

Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs

DEC Professional Productivity Institutes:

1. Managing the Human Element in Systems Implementations: a Critical Success Factor
2. Designing a High-Performance Information System Organization
Western Council CE Institutes
1990 Multi-Cultural Skills, Sylvan Lake, South Dakota
1989 Government Policy-making, Burlingame, California
1988 Strategic Planning, Kauai, Hawaii

Governor's Forum 50:

Sessions with regional/national leaders on topics of interest to the [Oregon] Governor's Cabinet

"Forecasting for Strategic Decision Making"

J. Scott Armstrong, Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania at University of California, Davis

Selected Journal Editing/Writing

Customer Satisfaction...a Master Plan for Public Libraries. 1991-2002.

Hawaii State Department of Education/State Library Board

Oregon Shines, an Economic Strategy for the Pacific Century or Creating a Global Culture for Oregon.

Oregon Department of Economic Development/Oregon Executive Dept. [January 1990]

Film & Video Review Index [1977-1983]

Editor in chief/Bibliographer (Winner of Media & Methods Award)

"World's First Genuine Do-It-Yourself AV Media Futures Game"

Pyramid Film & Video News/University Edition, May 1980

Administrative Problems and their Solutions"

Library Quarterly, V45:55-66, Jan 75

Public Libraries, Media Technology, and the Future"

(Chapter 7) Information Futures, 1977

Cable and Video Handbook, Roberto Estevez, et al.

ALA Publishing, 1981. (contributing editor)

How to Start an Audiovisual Collection, Myra Nadler, et al.

Scarecrow Press, 157pp., 1978. (definitions)

Other creative works
sacramento.org web site

Sacramento.org Project

LiveWire Show [Executive Producer/Host (5 years)

[weekly live call-in television show] Access Sacramento

Center for Environmental Education [interactive slide show]

Center for Environmental Education, Sacramento, CA. 1992

Fifth Freedom [Musical score]

16mm motion picture film Wing Productions, Waltham, MA

Television Commercials [Producer]

Hollywood, CA [1976/77] Starring Ruth Buzzi, Godfrey Cambridge & Artie Johnson

Interactive video plan, 1982-1983

Co-authored a report and preliminary plan to develop a series of interactive videodisks for exhibits in the Sacramento History Center

"States of the Nation Exhibit" [State Project Coordinator]

U.S. Congress and Library of Congress. 1991

Uncle Sam in the Oregon Country (HyperCard Program)

Co-editor/hyperscript writer. 1990

Visit Japan Without Leaving Oregon, 1990

OLF Press (Editor and Bibliographer)

Last Updated September 22, 2000