Todaro

Welcome to my website.

Here you will find a brief biography, a complete resume plus additional resume information on my workshops and presentations. In addition, I have links to several of my workshop outlines, my community project involvement, an outline of my management class, and email addresses. Please email me with any questions you may have concerning my workshops or consultations.

Brief Biography

Dr. Julie Todaro is Dean of Library Services (LS) and Head Librarian of the Rio Grande Campus Library of Austin Community College (ACC) in Austin, Texas. As Dean, she is responsible for the management of all ACC library service environments including: three main campuses, three smaller campuses, four evening sites and Automation and Technical Services; supervision of 16 full-time faculty librarians; between 10 and 15 hourly reference librarians; 27.5 classified staff; the LS budget and all library services and resources. Her current college-wide committee responsibilities include the Faculty Handbook Committee, the Faculty Evaluation Committee and the Instructional Leadership Team.

She presents national workshops on staff development and management issues for all types and sizes of libraries in such areas as basic and advanced management, Internet/Web resources for teaching and learning, integrating learning with work, staffing issues of the future, leadership and customer service. Her current national activities include Co-Chair of ALA President-elect Nancy Kranich's Community Partnerships initiative and membership on the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy. Julie is also a member of ACRL President-elect Betsy Wilson's 2001 Program Planning Committee and her other national professional activities have included service and committee work for LAMA, ALSC and ACRL as well as work in the Community and Junior College Section and the Distance Learning Section.

Her state professional activities include President of the 8000-member Texas Library Association (TLA), past membership on the TLA's Tall Texan Leadership Development Committee, past chair of TLA Public Relations Committee and past Chair of TLA's College and University Library Division. She was honored with the Texas Library Association Librarian of the Year Award in 1996, was ALA's LAMA Institute of the Year Speaker for 1997 featuring "Staffing Issues for the Year 2000," currently offers the LAMA workshop "Integrating Learning with Work" and is a Fall 2000 LAMA National Institute speaker on Organizational Effectiveness for 21st Century libraries.

Her local work includes President of the Board of Connections: a Resource Center for Child Care Providers and Parents; member of Laura Bush's Texas Book Festival Steering Committee and is a member of the Austin Public Library Foundation.

Dr. Todaro is the author of Haworth Community and Junior College Libraries quarterly column "Nothing But Net" and LAMA's quarterly column "The Truth is Out There." Julie holds her BS in English and History from The University of Texas at Austin (1970), her MLIS from UT's School of Library and Information Science (1972) and her Doctorate in Library Service from Columbia University's School of Library Service, New York (1984).