SDSU University Library
Wil Weston

Wil Weston (He/Him/His)

Earth Science and Maps Librarian

78244 Google Scholar // ORCID iD
Academic Rank: Librarian; Tenured
(619) 594-6988
wweston@sdsu.edu

Office: Love Library 518
University Library,
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive,
San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Professional History
  • Librarian, 2006—Present
    Library, San Diego State University
  • Engineering Librarian, 1999—2006
    Library , University of New Orleans
Education
  • Ph.D. Higher Education Administration and Leadership, University of New Orleans, 2008
  • MLIS, Masters of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, 1999
  • BS Physical Geography , Louisiana State University, 1995
  • BA English, Creative Writing, Louisiana State University, 1992
Service
  • Chair, 2022—2023
    University Resources & Planning Committee, San Diego State University
  • Chair, 2020—2022
    University Senate, San Diego State University
  • Senator, 2016—2022
    University Senate, San Diego State University
  • Chair, 2015—2016
    Academic Policy & Planning Committee, San Diego State University
Invited Positions
  • Editorial Board Member, 2017—Present
    Serials Librarian, Taylor & Francis 2017 - current., Taylor & Francis Group
  • Book Reviewer, 2001—Present
    Choice Magazine , American Library Association
  • Doctorial appointment, 2020—2023
    College of Education , San Diego State University
  • Guest Editor, 2022—2022
    Stream Magazine (Summer, 2022), Video Trust
  • Member, 2020—2022
    ProQuest Ebook Advisory Board, ProQuest LLC
  • Peer Reviewer, Urban Studies, 2015—2015
    Resources for College Libraries (RCL Online), ACRL, ProQuest LLC
  • Member, 2015—2015
    Library Advisory Board, Alexander Street
  • Member, 2013—2013
    Advisory Board, IOP Publishing USA
Memberships
  • Senator, 2023—Present
    Academic Senate of the California State University (ASCSU) , The California State University System
  • Member, 2022—2024
    Operations and Collections Council , WEST: Western Regional Storage Trust (CDL: California Digital Library )
Grants
  • Southeastern Library Association Early Career Profesional Grant, Southeastern Library Association GALE/SELA Continuing Education and Professional Development Committee Professional Grant, 2002-2002, 500 USD
  • Building Resources for Women in Engineering at UNO, University of New Orleans, 2004-2004, 5,000 USD
  • Exploring the Online Information-seeking Strategies of Education Graduate Students., SDSU Foundation University Grant Program, 2011-2013, 1,200 USD
Journal Articles
Books & Chapters
Conference Presentations
  • Wil Weston, Alison Wohlers, Michael Brewer & Amanda Sprochi (2024). Panel Discussion: Harnessing the value of shared print through local action, WEST: Western Regional Storage Trust [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston & Genya O’Gara (2024). E-Book ILL (Panel discusion), Boston Library Consortium’s E-Book Summit [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston, Tim Tully & Lucy Campbell (2023). The Benefits of Business: Applied research strategies in collection development, The Charleston Conference Proceedings 2023 [conference-paper]
  • Wil Weston, Sion Romaine & Samantha Silver (2022). Embedding Shared Print into Local Collection Management: Data-informed Deselection (Panel discussion), WEST: Western Regional Storage Trust Meeting [lecture-speech]
  • Gregory Daddis, Daniel Widener, Jeremy Prestholdt & Wil Weston (2021). The Visual Culture of the Cold War: Finding Comics, Cartoons, and Poster Art. , USS Midway Museum Institute for Teachers [lecture-speech]
  • Gregory Daddis, Daniel Widener, Jeremy Prestholdt & Wil Weston (2021). The Visual Culture of the Cold War: The Variety of Archival Resources on the Cold War, Panel Discussion. , USS Midway Museum Institute for Teachers [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2021). Meeting the Urgent Need for E-Resources: One Library’s Story. , Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2020). Converting physical collections to "e" - fast, accurately and affordably., ProQuest Webinar [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2016). Selection bias in collection development: Un-leveling the playing field and making matters worse., Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians /Association canadienne des bibliothecaires academiques professionnels [conference-abstract]
  • Wil Weston (2016). Student Persistence: How the library makes a difference., California Academic & Research Libraries Association (CARL) [conference-paper]
  • Wil Weston & Jennifer Rogers (2016). Acquisition, Licensing, Management, and Use of ebooks at San Diego State University., Elsevier Science & Technology Books Product Summit, Delivering Outstanding Customer Value [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2015). Revisting the Tao of Resource Sharing. (Presentation), INTERLIBRARY LOAN CONFERENCE I-SPIE, SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2015). Key to Success: How the Academic Library Supports Student Persistence, CAPAL-ACBAP Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians /Association canadienne des bibliothecaires academiques professionnels [conference-paper]
  • Wil Weston (2014). Leveraging Collection Development and Acquisitions in the Interlibrary Loan Workflow to Meet our Patrons Needs., I-SPIE, San Diego, CA [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2014). Exploring the Online Information Seeking Strategies of Education Graduate Students , CAPAL-ACBAP Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians /Association canadienne des bibliothecaires academiques professionnels [conference-abstract]
  • Wil Weston & Kimberley Robles-Smith (2013). How can ILL inform Collection Development/Management?, INTERLIBRARY LOAN CONFERENCE I-SPIE, CSU San Francisco. [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2013). E-Books and How they affect Special Libraries, Special Library Association [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2012). Copyright Issues in Library Collection Development., SDSU Center for Teaching & Learning: New Legalities of Copyright Law and Fair Academic Use, Lunch and Forum. [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2012). Current Opportunities & Challenges in Criminal Justice & Criminology Collections Development in Academic Libraries., ACRL ANSS Criminal Justice and Criminology Discussion Group, ALA Annual Conference [lecture-speech]
  • Wil Weston (2009). Understanding the Integrative Role of an Academic Library for Undergraduate Library Student Workers., ACRL National Conference [conference-paper]
Conference Posters
  • Tim Tully, Wil Weston & Linda Salem (2021). How a year of Online instructional modality impacted library streaming media use at SDSU: was it a flashflood or a climatic change?, Charleston Conference [conference-poster]
  • Pam Jackson, Anna Culbertson, Michael Lapins, Katie Stapko, Markel Tumlin et al. (2014). It's Alive!: Comics and the Arts Visibility Initiative at SDSU., Comic Arts Conference, Comic-Con [conference-poster]
  • Pam Jackson, Markel Tumlin, Wil Weston & Anna Culbertson (2013). I Like My Books With Pictures: Comics in Academic Libraries, the SDSU Way., San Diego Comic Fest [conference-poster]
  • Wil Weston (2001). Reference/Academic Handling Stress at the Reference Desk., Louisiana Library Association [conference-poster]
Other Works
  • Wil Weston (2024). Introduction to dual polarization Doppler weather radar: fundamentals, applications, and networks. (Review) , Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2023). Bayou D'Arbonne swamp: a naturalist's memoir of place. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2022). Impacts of future weather and climate extremes on United States infrastructure: assessing and prioritizing adaptation actions. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2022). Ice rivers: a story of glaciers, wilderness, and humanity. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2021). Practical handbook of thematic cartography: principles, methods, and applications. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2020). SAR image interpretation for various land covers: a practical guide. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2020). Encyclopedia of global resources. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2019). City unseen: new visions of an urban planet. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2018). Barrier dynamics and response to changing climate. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2018). Coasts in crisis: a global challenge. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2017). Spatial analysis of coastal environments. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2017). GeoScienceWorld Review, CCAdvisor [review]
  • Wil Weston (2017). Icefall: adventures at the wild edges of our dangerous, changing planet. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2017). Mountains: mapping the earth's extremes. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2017). Fundamentals of satellite remote sensing : an environmental approach 2nd ed. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2016). Practical handbook of remote sensing. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2015). An observer's guide to clouds and weather: a northeastern primer on prediction. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2014). Beaches of the Gulf Coast. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2014). Mountain geography: physical and human dimensions. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2013). Introducing meteorology: a guide to weather. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2013). Rivers: a very short introduction. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2013). The beach book: science of the shore. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2012). Bayou-diversity: nature and people in the Louisiana bayou country. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2012). United States Global Change Research Program. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2011). Cartography: visualization of spatial data. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2011). Preparing for climate change. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2011). Remote sensing tools for exploration: observing and interpreting the electromagnetic spectrum (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2010). GeoPlatform - Gulf Response (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2008). Understanding the Integrative Role of an Academic Library for Undergraduate Student Workers [dissertation-thesis]
  • Wil Weston (2007). Drawing Louisiana's new map: addressing land loss in coastal Louisiana, National Research Council of the National Academies. Committee on the Restoration and Protection of Coastal Louisiana. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2006). Status Report of Katrina's Impact on the University of New Orleans., Geoscience Information Society Newsletter [newsletter-article]
  • Wil Weston (2005). MetEd (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2004). Satellite observations of the earth's environment: accelerating the transition of research to operations. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2003). Engineering weather data. (Review), Choice magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2003). Live weather images. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2003). Weather 101. Teache's Resource (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2003). A guide to the end of the world: everything you never wanted to know. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). Radar remote sensing of planetary surfaces. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). GIS and public health. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). The first scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). Bringing the biosphere home: learning to perceive global environmental change. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). Global climate change. (Review), Choice MAgazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). Changing the atmosphere: expert knowledge and environmental governance. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2002). Living on the edge of the Gulf: the west Florida and Alabama coast. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2001). Reading the skies: a cultural history of English weather, 1650-1820. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2001). The coastal zone: past, present, and future. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2001). Climate diagnostics center. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2001). Due to the weather: ways the elements affect our lives. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2001). The World-Wide Web virtual library: remote sensing. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2000). Remote sensing in hydrology and water management. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]
  • Wil Weston (2000). Remote sensing for site characterization. (Review), Choice Magazine [book-review]