Jane Hutchison Retires after Thirty-Four Years of Service Jane Hutchison’s career spans thirty-four years of University and academic activities. Jane Hutchison enjoying retirement on Martha’s Vineyard this past summer. Jane Hutchison served as the Associate Director of Instruction & Research Technology at William Paterson University. For more than 34 years, she was actively involved in classroom technology and the evaluation, selection and management of the University’s media collection. Jane also served on the team that obtained an IMLS Grant to develop a streaming portal for the state of New Jersey. As Chairwoman of the Digital Media Committee for the New Jersey Statewide Library Consortium, VALE, Jane helped shape the licensing and streaming of commercial videos for New Jersey’s portal, NJVID (NJVID.net). She is past president of the Consortium of College & University Media Centers (CCUMC) and served as the Chair of the Government Regulations and Public Policy Committee for CCUMC. Jane has frequently presented on matters of copyright and academic media at national conferences, including the National Media Market, the Charleston Conference, American Library Association, and the Consortium of College & University Media Centers (CCUMC) as well as statewide conferences and workshops. Jane continues to consult in the field and is currently working with Deg Farrelly on updated survey results on streaming video in the academic setting. She will be presenting three workshops at the American Library Association's conference in Orlando this coming June. The first will report on the results of the national video streaming survey. The second will focus on the orphan works projects she is developing with Arizona State University and American University. For the third presentation, Jane will join a panel discussing publishing opportunities in Media Librarianship. Jane began her years at William Paterson as the Head of the AV Department at the Sarah Byrd Askew Library, forging ahead of her time in building the first public computer lab on campus and providing content in new formats for faculty and staff. She built the classroom distribution system for providing easy access to both hardware and software in the classrooms. Her dream was to make every classroom “technology rich” and that dream became a reality! Jane soon became interested in copyright, and after taking classes, she and Dr. Sandie Miller drafted the first copyright policy for the University which was adopted by the Board of Trustees. She has served as the Copyright Liaison and advisor to faculty and students. Jane appreciates her years at William Paterson University and the opportunities the University provided her to pave the way for delivering video content to faculty and students anywhere, any time and any place. She will miss her colleagues and friends and wishes them continued success at the University. November 08, 2015
