This year’s theme: ”Changes in Leadership: Opportunities and Challenges for Academic Libraries”Eastern regional: July 13, Historic Triangle campus of Thomas Nelson Community College (Williamsburg).
Western regional: August 5, Hampden-Sydney College (near Farmville).
Space is limited, so make your reservations now. To reserve a spot at the eastern regional program, please contact Craig Amos at amosc@tncc.edu by July 9th. To reserve your place at the western regional program, email Maryke Barber at mbarber@hollins.edu by July 30th.
Our summer regional programs provide affordable opportunities to touch base with your colleagues and talk about what’s going on in the library world. Please join us to discuss strategies for making the most of leadership changes at state, institutional, and library levels.
Schedule for the day:
* 10:15 am – Greeting/Refreshments
* 10:30 am – Panel Discussion – details below
* 11:30 am – Tour of new library facilities
* 12:30 am – Lunch at a restaurant nearby
There is no charge for our summer regional programs – all you pay is the cost of transportation and lunch!
Panel Discussions: This part of the program features a panel of experts who can help you think about reaching out to new leaders in a constructive way.
Each panel includes
* A professor of business or communications to provide a general framework for thinking about the opportunities and challenges that accompany periods of transition.
* A library director with “hands-on” experience managing change in a higher education environment.
* A librarian with first-hand experience making a period of transition work to the benefit of his or her library.
Our panelists:
Eastern Regional Meeting
Wendell Barbour has been the Dean of the Greenwood Library at Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia since 2004. He served as Vice President for Information Resources and Chief Information Officer at California State University, Bakersfield from 1996-2004. Before going to California, he served as Dean of Academic Support at Christopher Newport University (CNU) in Newport News, VA from 1983-1996.
Stuart Frazer has an MLS from Rutgers University (1989), an MA from Old Dominion University (2005) and a BA from Tulane University (1984) . He came to ODU in 1995 as Social Sciences Reference Librarian and has since served in the positions of Interlibrary Loan Librarian (2003-2008) and Head of Access Services (2008-present).
Access services at ODU is comprised of circulation, interlibrary loan, document delivery, microforms and our art and music branch libraries.
Ron Monark has spent 25 years as a CEO or COO of information, transportation, and manufacturing companies. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of William and Mary and has an MBA from the University of Chicago. He currently teaches entrepreneurship at William and Mary’s Mason School of Business and serves as Managing Director of the Entrepreneurship Center. He has served on several for profit and not for profit boards and currently chairs the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Board.
Western Regional Meeting
Cy Dillon, Co-editor of Virginia Libraries (http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ ejournals/VALib/), has worked with publications since his undergraduate days at Washington & Lee. He has also held positions as a public school teacher and coach, grant manager, graduate research assistant, college composition teacher, associate dean, and academic library director. He came to Hampden-Sydney College’s Bortz Library in July 2010.
Karen Marsh King is Director of Camp Library at UVA’s Darden School of Business. She recently gained first-hand experience in advocating for one’s library in times of transition when a new dean assumed leadership of Darden.
Dr. Bill Stuart is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Longwood University. He teaches courses in organizational communication, public relations, crisis communication and communication research.