Gene Spencer is an independent consultant to the higher education information technology and library communities, focusing on areas of organizational effectiveness, organizational design, leadership development, work redesign, quality customer service, collaboration between IT and library organizations, and synergies between people, information and technology.

Most recently, Gene held the position of Associate Vice President for Information Services and Resources at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.  In this role, Gene served an integrated library/IT organization with responsibility for all aspects of computing services, library services, networking, instructional technology, enterprise information systems, library collections, information access, and telecommunications.  His primary focus at Bucknell was organizational development, leadership development, quality customer service and creating a collaborative work environment.

Gene has been a member of the EDUCAUSE Management Institute Faculty (2004-2007), serving for the last two years as its Director.  He served on the EDUCAUSE Professional Development Committee and the EDUCAUSE 2000 program committee (Nashville).  He currently serves on the InCommon Federation Steering Committee (and has served as vice chair and chair).  Gene has been active in the Consortium of  Liberal Arts Colleges (having served on the board of directors and as its chair) and in the Oberlin Group of Library Directors.  Gene is a Frye Fellow from the class of 2001 and served on the Frye Institute faculty in 2006 and 2007.