Professional Responsibilities 

• Coordinator of Monograph and Automated Acquisitions

Affiliations

• American Library Association(ALA) - Acquisitions Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
• American Library Association (ALA) - Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA)
• Texas Library Association

Education

• M.L.S  University of Oklahoma, 1982

                 Major emphasis: Academic Libraries and Technical Services

• B.A.  Baylor University, 1969

                Majors: Elementary Education and English

Research Interests

• Acquisition of library materials including monographs, serials, and electronic resources, especially e-books and patron driven acquisitions

• Library material budgets

• Technical service organization in academic libraries

• Censorship 

Selected Papers

Articles

Pickett, Carmelita, Simona Tabacaru and Jeanne Harrell.  “E-Approval Plans in Research Libraries”. College & Research Libraries. Accepted for publication November 5, 2012. Anticipated Publication Date: March 2014. Preprint available: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2012/12/19/crl12-410.full.pdf+html

Harrell, Jeanne. “Literature of Acquisitions in Review, 2008-2009.” Library Resources     and Technical Services 56, no. 1 (2012),  4-13.

Reynolds, Leslie J., Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Carmelita Pickett, Jane Smith, Sandy Tucker, and Jeanne Harrell.“User Driven Acquisitions: Allowing Patron Requests to Drive Collection Development in an Academic Library.” Collection Management 35: 3, 244-254 (2010).  URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2010.486992. Also in Patron-Driven Acquisitions : Current Successes and Future Directions, edited by Judith M. Nixon, Robert S. Freeman, and Suzanne M. Ward. New York: Routledge, 2011. 126-136.

vanDuinkerken, Wyoma, Jane Smith, Jeanne Harrell, Leslie J. Reynolds, Sandy Tucker, and Esther Carrigan.“Creating a Flexible Fund Structure to Meet the Needs and Goals of the Library and its Users,” Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 32 (2009). 142-149.

Harrell, Jeanne. “The Evolution of E-Journal Expertise.” University of Houston Libraries  Serials Symposium.  Houston, TX , July 22, 2005.

Harrell, Jeanne. "Library Acquisitions: Change and the Need for Communication Among Libraries, Distributors, and Publishers," Against the Grain. (November 2001), 52-54.

Books

Harer, John B. and Jeanne Harrell.  People For and Against Restricted or Unrestricted Expression.  Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2002.