Robert Ward

Email Address: rcward@lsu.edu                                                                                   Full Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• Ph. D. in Public Administration and Public Affairs from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• M.P.A. in Public Administration from Drake University
• MSLS from University of Kentucky
• BA in Political Science from Bellarmine College

Classes:

• LIS 7013    Evaluation of Information Systems
• LIS 7405    Public Libraries
• LIS 7501    Management of Information Systems
• LIS 7503    Information Technology and Public Policy

Research Interests:

• Organizational Theory
• Public Policy Theory

Representative Publications

2007:  “The Outsourcing of Public Library Management: An Analysis of the Application of New Public Management Theories from the Principal/Agent Perspective”, Administration and Society, Scheduled Publication: January.

2006:  Summary Analysis: Advancing the Public Interest”. Co-author with Dr. Gary Wamsley. 
In Federal Emergency Management in the U.S.: Concepts and Evolution, 1900 – 2005, Ed. Claire 
B. Rubin. Washington, D.C.: George Washington University Press.

2006:  “Contracting Public Library Management to Private Vendors: The New Public Management 
Model.” Co-author with Michael Carpenter. Advances in Library Administration and Management. 
Volume 23. Editors: Edward D Garten,  Delmus E Williams, and James M Nyce. Greenwich, 
Connecticut: JAI Press.

2004:  “State Library and Local Public Library Relationships: A Case Study of Legislative Conflict 
within South Carolina from the Principal/Agent Perspective”, Public Library Quarterly, Volume 23, 
Number 1.

Other Activities and Awards

• Pi Alpha Alpha - 1997 (Virginia Polytechnic Institute), 1983 (Drake University)
• Beta Phi Mu - 1976 (University of Kentucky)
• Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels – 1976