Deborah Jakubs

Deborah Jakubs is Director of Collections Services for the Perkins system libraries at Duke University. She leads and oversees the collections program, which includes the activities of thirty-five resource specialists. She works with the professional school librarians to coordinate campus-wide cooperative collection development. In addition, she is responsible for the preservation program, document delivery services, and the six branch libraries. She chairs the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) Committee on Information Resources (CIR).

Since mid-1996, Jakubs has also served as a part-time Visiting Program Officer at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), where she manages the collections program and directs the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program, which is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before assuming her present position, she was Ibero-American Bibliographer and the Head of the International and Area Studies Department at Duke. She also serves as the Associate Director of the Duke-University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies, a U. S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, and is an Adjunct Professor of History at Duke.

Dr. Jakubs received her B. A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in Latin American history from Stanford University. She holds an M. L. I. S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to moving to Duke in 1983, she worked as Collection Development Manager at The Research Libraries Group (RLG), where she managed the Conspectus. She is a member of the Collections and Services Advisory Panel of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), and chair of CRL's Area Studies Council.

She has made numerous presentations on topics related to cooperative collection development, international studies, and administration. Among her publications are, "Staffing for Collection Development in the Electronic Environment: Toward a New Definition," Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 28, No. 4, 1999; "The AAU/ARL Global Resources Program: Both Macrocosm and Microcosm," in ARL Bimonthly Report, No. 206, October 1999; "The Anglo-Argentines: Work, Family, and Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century," in English-Speaking Communities in Latin America, Oliver Marshall, ed. (forthcoming, August 2000, Macmillan/Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London), "Library Collections and Access: Supporting Global Expertise," (with David Magier), prepared for the HEA-Title VI-Fulbright/Hays National Policy Conference, University of California - Los Angeles, January 23-25, 1997, in International Education in the New Global Era, edited by John N. Hawkins, et al (Los Angeles: International Studies and Overseas Programs, UCLA, 1998), and "From Bawdyhouse to Cabaret: The Evolution of the Tango as an Expression of Argentine Popular Culture," Journal of Popular Culture, Fall 1984.

 

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