Bring your experiences, tools, and questions relating to all kinds of assessment to this interactive session, which will take advantage of new insights by librarians and classrooms faculty across the country involved in the early stages of an ACRL funded grant project on assessing learning outcomes. ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter Managing Diversity Mark Winston, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University. Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce is a major concern in higher education today. Explore organizational issues related to diversity, as well as practical strategies for strengthening the personnel program in your library. This is an open forum.
Audience participation is highly encouraged.
Using the context of the changing landscape in higher education, Mary Reichel will discuss the need for academic libraries to advance their core goals athrough visible leadership and partnerships. Focusing efferts on the library's centrality in learning and the scholarly process, as well as advancement of servie, positions the library to increase its impact on the education of students and the scholarship of faculty. She brings a wealth of experience and insight as she discusses the future of scholarly publishing. Join us for a fascinating discussion as well as a delicious brunch. Our mission is to provide an organization that encourages members to achieve professional development through information exchange and collegial interaction.