Education 

Experience

Dean of Libraries, Austin Community College, Faculty Development and Learning Resource Services (FDLRS) Rio Grande Campus, Austin, Texas September 1985 - present

Management of the Rio Grande Campus Learning Resource Center including: the learning resource center (library) and instructional technology and open access computer center; supervision of 3.5 full-time librarians with 4 to 6 part-time hourly substitute professional librarians; 3.5 full-time circulation staff with 6 circulation hourly/work study workers; budgeting; reference; library-use instruction; and coordination of FDLRS work for ACC's Connections Resource Center for Child Care Providers and Parents.

Current ACC FDLRS activities also include Public Relations Committee co-chair and Staff Development Committee co-chair. Accomplishments during my ACC tenure include: setup and management of the Robbin's Academy Learning Resource Services and 4.5 years of management, supervision and development of all facets of existing and new extension services for 7 FDLRS extension sites.

Other accomplishments include coordination of FDLRS college-wide library-use instruction, and development of a campus-wide information handbook for the campus Vice-President, as well as service on college-wide committees such as the Faculty Evaluation committee.

Adjunct Faculty  The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Austin, Texas Summer 1986 - present

Primary Course Taught: Administration and Management of Library and Information Science Environments with other graduate program activities including supervision for various collection development class projects; reference and management internships; and speaker for student organization events.

Assistant Professor The University of Michigan, School of Information and Library Studies; Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fall l980 - Summer l985. Responsibilities included: teaching, research, and publication in the areas of management in libraries and information centers, middle management, public library services, and children's services; membership on doctoral research committees; direction of independent research at master's and doctoral levels; supervision of internships/field experiences; counseling/advising at master's and doctoral levels; and committee assignments on university and local area committees.

Teaching Assistant Columbia University, School of Library Service, New York 1979 - l980 with responsibilities including: Training master's students in the database laboratory on SDC, Lockheed, BRS and OCLC; assistance in the audiovisual laboratory with master's level instruction; proctoring of master's level core curriculum course.

Librarian III Children's and Young Adult Specialist Jungman Branch Library, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas l975-l979. Responsibilities included: Reference, management/supervision, planning, collection development (30,000 volumes), programming and budgeting for children's and young adult services, assistance with adult reference and programming, outreach to over 25 public and private K-12 schools and publicity for children's and young adult services.

Adjunct Faculty Sam Houston State University, School of Library Science, Spring l977. Taught "Children's and Young Adult Services in the Public Library" and guest lecturer in "Collection Development."

Librarian II Children's and Young Adult Specialist Looscan Branch Library, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas l972-l975. Responsibilities included: Reference, planning, collection development (15,000 volumes), programming, budgeting for children's and young adult services, assistance in adult reference and programming, outreach and publicity.

Honors, Appointments and Scholarships

National

Keynote Presenter, Library Administration and Management Association, American Library Association, December 2000 – One of four chosen to present at LAMA’s first national institute in Palm Springs, Fall 2000. Presentation: “Organizational Effectiveness in the 21st Century.”

Institute of the Year Presenter, Library Administration and Management Association, American Library Association, 1996 to present - The workshop titled "Staffing Issues for the Year 2000") was LAMA Institute of the Year. Additional institute developed and now offered is a regional institute "Integrating Learning with Work: Designing the 21st Century Learning Library."

Member, Steering Committee, Information Literacy Institute, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association, 1997 to present - Member of the team to design a national program for research, study and practice on information literacy.

Co-Chair, Information Literacy Institute Phase III Community Partnerships - Institute level III on Community Partnerships (Todaro idea and project) chosen and funded by incoming ALA President Nancy Kranich for her presidential projects and chosen as theme by all ALA Divisions.

Member, ACRL Presidential Program Planning Committee for the Summer 2001 ACRL San Francisco Program

ALA/ACRL committee article on library-use instruction chosen as one of ALA's LIRT's best of the year for 1993.

Scholarship for Teaching Assistant Position and full tuition scholarship, Columbia University, School of Library Service, New York, 1979 - 1980

State

President, Texas Library Association, 2000 - 2001 with conference in San Antonio March 2001

Member, Texas Book Festival, Texas Governor's Steering Committee of the First Lady of Texas, 1995 to present

Chair, Texas Library Association, Texas Book Festival Grant Committee - design and oversee grant form and process; administer annual funding cycle (raised $888,000.00 to date)

Chair, School Library Standards for the State of Texas, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 1996 to 1998 - designed standards for school libraries in Texas, approved by Texas Education Agency and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in 1998

Chair, Library Services and Technology Act Board, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, State of Texas, 1996 - 1998 and Member, Library Services and Construction Act Board Texas State Library and Archives Commission, State of Texas, 1993 - 1996 - This Board oversees the federal grants' process for Texas public libraries.

Librarian of the Year, Texas Library Association, 1996

Local

President, Board of Directors, Connections Resource Center: A Resource Center for Child Care Providers and Parents, 1996 to present

Co-Chair, Legislative Day - Local Arrangements, Texas Library Association, 1993 to present

Member, Foundation, Austin Public Library, 1998 to the present

1997 Education Award, National Association of Women in Business, Austin/Texas Chapter

Commissioner, Advisory Commission, Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas, City Council appointee from 1994 to 1998

Grants:

"Connections: A Resource Center for Childcare Providers and Parents" for Austin Community College, Child Development and Learning Resource Services - Design and author of the library component $600,000 for first three years of program 1992 - present

"Into the Millennium: The Critical Need for Humanities Programs in Texas Public Libraries" Texas Council for the Humanities/Texas Library Association - Wrote grant and administered funding project/process $80,000 1997 - 1999

"The Family in American Cultures" National Council on Aging and the Texas Library Association's $11,000 1992-l993 and $8,000 in 1994-1995

"Kurzweil Machine Funding" for the Rio Grande Campus - Austin Community College $12,000 1987

"Research and Assessment of Age-Level Services" Michigan Educational Foundation/Michigan Library Association $3,400 1983

“TECHLinx, a print and electronic clearinghouse for Perkins projects” - Partner in design and authorship of information and related information for The Higher Education Coordinating Board of Texas. $300,000 for first two years

Texas Book Festival and the Texas Library Association – design and manage the grant process for TLA/First Lady of Texas/Governor's Office - given away over $525,000 from 1996 to present

Internet/Web Activity:

“Internet Resources for People Who Work with Children and Young Adults" School Library Journal, May, 1996.

“Nothing but Net” Quarterly column for Community and Junior College Libraries including “Ten Sites Not To Miss,” “Search and Finding on the Net,” “Professional Development Resources Not To Miss.” Upcoming: “Information Literacy on the Web”

“The Truth is Out There” Quarterly column for Library and Administration and Management Association, American Library Association including: “The Beast Within: Self-Assessment Sites on the Web”

Over 20 workshops and papers presented on the web and Internet including:

“Doing Business on the Web,” Austin Area Marketing Association Spring 1995

“Homework Help in the 21st Century” Houston Public Library, October 1999

“Internet Resources for Professionals Who Work with Children” Early Childhood Intervention Association Texas Convention, Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999

“Internet Resources for Professionals Who Work with Children and Youth” Young Adult Services Association and Children’s Round Table, Texas Library Association Pre-Conference, Spring 1995

“Internet Resources for School Library Media Professionals” Media Fair, Texas Media Professionals, September 1999

 “Using the Internet” Faculty, Center for Blind and Visually Handicapped, 1998, 1999

Also: “Power Up” ACC’s Continuing Education Internet Workshop 1997, 1998; “Research 2000” ACC’s Student Internet Workshop 1998, 1999; ACC Task Force Presentations for Human Services Faculty 1998; Developmental Faculty 1998, 1999; “Internet Resources” ACC Student Government Leaders, 1998.

Other Publications:

"Changing Children's Environments." Illinois Libraries 58 (December 1978): 903-908.

Facilitating Groups. American Library Association: Chicago, ILL: 1992. (for Pat Schuman's President's Program) Contract discussion with Neal-Schuman, Inc. for Spring 1996.

"Immodest Rebuttal." C & R L News Spring 1994. (written as Chair of the ACRL CJCLS Bibliographic Instruction with Wanda Johnston and committee members. Chosen as one of ALA LIRT's 1993's "Top Twenty Articles Written on BI.")

"Job Burn-out: It's Time We Had a Telethon." Illinois Libraries 60 (December 1982): 1153-1157.

"Public Librarianship in Library Education: What are we doing?" Public Libraries 4 (Winter l982): 158-162. Research and Assessment of Age-Level Services: the Survey. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Educational Foundation, l984. (with Dorothy Kempter)

Research and Assessment of Age-Level Services. Lansing: MI: Michigan Library Association, April l985. (with Marcia Shafer and Carole McCullough)

"The Role of the LRC in Developmental and Literacy Education." in The Role of the Learning Resources Center in Instruction." San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1990. (with Dorothy Martinez)

"Top Ten Most Important Elements of Customer Service." in School Library Journal (May, 1995.)

"Who Cares?" In Leadership and Library Education: A Feshchrift for Jane Ann Hannigan. New York: Scarecrow Press, l990.

Professional Association Memberships/Activity:

American Library Association 1971 to the present Membership and Chairs on more than 15 committees including: Office of Human Resources, Advisory Committee ALA; Institute for Information Literacy Association College and Research Libraries ALA; Buildings and Equipment, Advisory Committee, Library Administration and Management Association, ALA, and the 1979 Newbery and Caldecott Committee, Association for Library Service to Children ALA

Texas Library Association 1971 to the present Membership and Chair on over 25 groups including: TLA Executive Board; TALL Texans Leadership Development; Public Relations Committee: College and University Library Division