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Tina Buck is the department head for Acquisitions & Collection Services at the University of Central Florida Libraries. Formerly, she was UCF’s Electronic Resources Librarian. Her experience includes acquisitions, collection management, integrated library system functionality, cataloging and discovery layers.

Tina holds a Master’s of Library Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Political Science, both from the University of Pittsburgh.

Selected Scholarship

Honors and Awards

2020 Excellence in Librarianship Award for UCF Libraries

Book

Buck, Tina Herman, and Sara Duff. “Guidance for Librarians Transitioning to a New Environment.” Routledge. October 2020. https://ucf-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_UCF/5okunq/alma990380481810306596

Articles in Refereed Journals

Spyers-Duran, Peter, and Tina Herman Buck. “Current Content in JSTOR Journal Archives: Identifying Full-text Current Journals in JSTOR to Reduce Print Subscriptions” Serials Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2026.2663259.

Invited. Buck, Tina Herman, Sara Duff, and Natalie Henri-Bennett. “Investigation of the Impact of KBART Automation Versus Manual Processes on Technical Services Workflow and Metadata Quality.” Internet reference services quarterly, 29, no. 3 (2025): 1–18. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2528028.

Buck, Tina Herman. “Thoughts for the Knowledgebase.” Serials Review. 48, issue 3-4 (August 2022): 213–216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2022.2108304.

Buck, Tina Herman, and Sara K. Hills. “Diminishing Short-Term Loan Returns: A Four-Year View of the Impact of Demand-Driven Acquisitions on Collection Development at a Small Academic Library.” Library Resources & Technical Services, 61, no. 1 (January 2017): 51-56. https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/6216.

Ferris, Kady, and Tina Herman Buck. “An Ethos of Access: How A Small Academic Library Transformed Its Collection-Building Processes.” Collection Management 39, no. 2/3 (July 2014): 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2014.900732.

Non-Refereed Publications

Buck, Tina Herman, and Duff, Sara. (2023, February 1.) Author’s Corner: Guidance for Librarians Transitioning to a New Environment. Hiring Librarians. https://hiringlibrarians.com/2023/02/01/authors-corner-guidance-for-librarians-transitioning-to-a-new-environment/ (invited blog post).

Conference Proceedings

Duff, Sara, Tina Herman Buck, and Natalie Henri-Bennett. “Choose Your Fighter: Automation vs. Manual Processes in the ILS” Charleston Conference Proceedings 2023: 497-513. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14509768.

Duff, Sara, and Tina Herman Buck, “Oh, the Career You’ll Have!” Charleston Conference Proceedings 2022 (2023): 839-843. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14369519.

Hoeppner, Athena, Sara Duff, and Tina Herman Buck, “Very Practical Accessibility Tasks.” Charleston Conference Proceedings 2022 (2023): 155-169. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14369519.

Presentations

National/International

Gause, Rich, Sara Duff, and Tina Herman Buck, “Navigating Peer Benchmarking for Databases” Presentation at the Charleston Conference 2025, Charleston SC, November 5, 2025. (Sponsored)

Duff, Sara, Tina Herman Buck, Natalie Henri-Bennett, and Faye Mazzia. “Choose Your Fighter: Automation vs. Manual Processes in the ILS” Presentation at the Charleston Conference 2023, Charleston SC, November 8, 2023

Hoeppner, Athena., Duff, Sara., Buck Tina Herman. “Very Practical Accessibility Tasks for Acquisitions and Collections Teams” Presentation at the Charleston Conference 2022, Charleston, SC, November 3, 2022.

Duff, Sara., Buck Tina Herman. “Oh, the Career You’ll Have!” Presentation at the Charleston Conference 2022, Charleston, SC, November 4, 2022.

Buck, Tina Herman. “Thoughts for the Knowledge base,” Lightning Round Presentation at the North Carolina Serials Conference, Online, April 8, 2022. https://www.ncserialsconference.org/slides/2022/2022-4A-3.pdf.

Buck, Tina Herman. “Packages, packages, everywhere, and none of them quite right,” Presentation at the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference, Online, March 11, 2021. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/1086/.

Buck, Tina Herman. “Tracking journal titles & ISSNs where they live: assessing implementation of the recommended practices for the presentation and identification of e-journals (PIE-J).” Presentation at the Electronic Resources & Libraries conference, Austin, Texas, March 2020.

Regional

Buck, Tina Herman and Sara Duff. “Guidance for Librarians Transitioning to a New Environment – Career Paths,” Tampa Bay Library Consortia webinar, July 29, 2025.

Buck, Tina Herman. “Lead, Show, Share, Present: Yes, You Can!” Lightning Round session at the Florida Library Association Conference, Online, October 29, 2020.

Posters

Buck, Tina Herman and Sara Duff. “Moving to a Different Library Environment: Survey Results and Interactive.” Florida Library Association Conference, Online, October 29, 2020.

Selected Service Activities

Service to the Profession – National

  • NISO Package ID Working Group, co-chair, 2025-
  • SPARC Data Analysis Working Group (DAWG) 2024-, co-chair 2025-
  • NASIG Mentor 2024-2025
  • ALA Core Metadata/Collections: Metadata Standards, July 1, 2021-June 30, 2023
  • Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Continuing Resources Section,
    • CRS Standards Committee, 2019-2021
    • Elected CRS Member-At-Large, 2016-2019. 

Service to the Profession – State

  • Collection Management and E-Resources Standing Committee (CMESC), FLVC, 2025-present. Co-chair for 2025.
  • Electronic Resources Standing Committee, FLVC, inaugural member, 2022.
  • Technical Services Standing Committee, FALSC/FLVC, July 2018 – June 2021.

University of Central Florida

University

  • Budget & Administrative Committee of the Faculty Senate, 2016-present.
    • Chair for 2022-2023; Co-chair for 2021-2022. Member of University Budget Committee as chair/co-chair of B&A.
  • Faculty Senator, 2016-2020

Library

  • Library Accessibility Committee, 2024-2026
  • Chair, search committee for Digital Initiatives Librarian, 2024-2025
  • Management Council Committee Charge Task Force
  • Search committee for Head of Reference & Information Services, 2023
  • Search committee for Electronic Resources Cataloging Librarian, 2020-2021
  • Promotion Coordinating Committee, 2020-2022.
  • Director’s Advisory Group, 2018-2020
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