Edward W. Meachen

Ed Meachen received a Ph.D. in History and Literature from Emory University in 1976 and an M.A. in Library Studies from the University of Chicago in 1983. He has published a number of articles on the merger of libraries and computing facilities in higher education, a monograph on the preservation of local history materials, and a number of articles on early 19th century English Romanticism. He has worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago, served as Library Director at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and worked as Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Services at University of Wisconsin-Parkside before becoming Associate Vice President of Learning & Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin System in March 1998. His current responsibilities include System-wide IT planning, library automation, Web-based learning systems, common administrative systems, and emerging technology analysis.