NANCY A. SCHILLER
Co-Director
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Science and Engineering Library
228 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 14260
schiller@acsu.buffalo.edu

EDUCATION

• B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980
  
• M.S. Columbia University, 1989

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

• Co-Director, National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 1999-Present
  
• Associate Librarian, Science and Engineering Library, Arts & Sciences Libraries, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 1989-Present
  
• Reference/Collection Development Intern, Engineering Library, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1987-1988
  
• Senior Technical Writer/Assistant Publications Director, Ecology and Environment, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 1981-1987
  
• Freelance Copy Editor, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY, 1984-1990

HONORS / AWARDS

• Co-PI, "National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science," The Pew Charitable Trusts, Higher Education Reform Program Grant, 1999-2002, $800,000
  
• Co-PI, "Case Studies in Science: A Novel Method of Science Education," National Science Foundation, Division of Undergraduate Education, Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Program Grant, 1998-2001, $119,000
  
• State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship, 1997
  
• PI, "Collaborative World Wide Web Support of Distance Learning," SUNY Office of Educational Technology, Educational Technology Initiative Grant, 1996-1997, $85,000
  
• PI, "Colloquium on the Convergence of Science and the Humanities: Internet Technologies and Scholarly Resources," SUNY Office of the Provost, Conversations in the Disciplines Program Grant, 1994, $2500

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Case Studies

• "Of Mammoths and Men: A Case Study in Extinction" (with Clyde F. Herreid) Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 31, no. 1 (September 2001), pp. 52-56; also published on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science web site, http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm.
  
• "The Galapagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of Evolution" (with Clyde F. Herreid), Journal of College Science Teaching, vol. 30, no. 1 (September 2000), pp. 56-63; also published on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science web site, http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm.

Library and Information Science

• The Emerging Virtual Library, Systems and Procedures Exchange Center, Office of Management Services, Association of Research Libraries, 1992.
  
• "Creating the Virtual Library: Strategic Issues" (with Barbara von Wahlde) in The Virtual Library: Visions and Realities, Westport, CT: Meckler, 1993, pp. 15-46.
  
• "Delivering Course Materials to Distance Learners over the World Wide Web: Statistical Data Summary" (with Nancy A. Cunningham), Journal of Library Services for Distance Education, http://www.westga.edu/~library/jlsde/vol1/2/NSchiller_NCunningham.html, vol. 1, no. 2 (July 1998).
  
• "World Wide Web Support for Distance Learning at the State University of New York at Buffalo, MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v4n1/schiller.html, vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 1996), pp. 25-37.
  
• "Internet Rx Office Visits" (with Nancy F. Stimson), College & Research Libraries News, vol. 57, no. 11 (December 1996), pp. 723-725.
  
• "Internet Training and Support: Academic Libraries and Computer Centers - Who's Doing What?" Internet Research, vol. 4, no. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 35-47.