John Weise

Current

• Head, Digital Library Production Service at University of Michigan Library
• Owner at Books by Chance LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
• Coordinator of Image Services at University of Michigan Library

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Past

• Project Coordinator at ITD, University of Michigan
• Computer System Consultant at ITD, University of Michigan

Education

• University of Michigan - School of Information
• University of Michigan

Recommended

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Connections

107 connections

Industry

Libraries

Websites

• UM Image Source

John Weise’s Summary

Professional librarian with extensive experience developing cutting edge, scalable, digital library systems. Owner of innovative and modern consignment based used book selling service. Strong emphasis on service to patrons, clients, customers, and community.

John Weise’s Specialties:

Image databases, web services, digital libraries, service, software support, small business ownership, online book selling, consignment, XML, HTML, Perl, PHP, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, JPEG2000.

John Weise’s Experience

• Head, Digital Library Production Service

  University of Michigan Library

  (Libraries industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Manage an organization developing large scale digital library systems, digitizing library materials, and providing access to those materials in the systems developed.

• Owner

  Books by Chance LLC (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

  Owner of unique consignment book selling service.

• Coordinator of Image Services

  University of Michigan Library

  (Libraries industry)

  September 1998 — Present (11 years 3 months)

  Designer and developer of Image Class component of DLXS ( http://www.dlxs.org ) used for providing access to large scale image databases. Librarian in charge of deploying and maintaining image databses for the Library, campus, and community.

• Project Coordinator

  ITD, University of Michigan

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years )

  Coordinated the development of a museum image access system for the web.

• Computer System Consultant

  ITD, University of Michigan

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years )

  Consultant to students, staff, and faculty of the University of Michigan in the area of desktop publishing and graphics.

John Weise’s Education

• University of Michigan - School of Information

  MILS , Digital Library Systems , 1993 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Digital Library Associate
  ASIS

• University of Michigan

  BFA , Graphic Design, Photography, Computer Graphics , 1985 — 1989

Additional Information

John Weise’s Websites:

• UM Image Source

John Weise’s Interests:

photography, image database technology, basketball

John Weise’s Groups:

arbcamp, a2b3

•    University of Michigan School of Information
•    LA2M - Lunch Ann Arbor Marketing
•    a2b3 - Ann Arbor Bi Bim Bop
•    Digital Libraries

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