NISO Fall Assessment Training Series, Session Four, Planning, Managing, and Assessing Library Needs During COVID-19, 10.9.20

NISO runs two, eight-week online training series each year, typically designed to provide early to mid-career information professionals with guidance on specific aspects of their roles, which they can then put into practice in their day-to-day work. Each session is recorded, shared immediately with participants, and made openly available after two years.

Prior to assuming the role at Oklahoma, she was the vice provost and university librarian at Washington University at St. Louis (WUSTL). There she managed the university’s nine locations, their archives and special collections, and oversaw more than 150 professionals and support staff. She has also served as university librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she planned and executed the $80 million expansion and update of the university’s library. Stephens has had leadership roles at several other academic libraries in the U.S., including the University of Kansas, where she held positions as strategic and organizational research librarian, information management coordinator and vice provost for information services. She also served as a librarian at Syracuse University and the University of Virginia. Stephens earned both her undergraduate degree and master of library and information science degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Martha Kyrillidou runs a consulting company, QualityMetrics, LLC, from Silver Spring, MD. She consults in management, evaluation, assessment and R&D activities. She helps libraries respond to customer needs through the development of user-focused services and culture that enhance the user-experience. Martha holds a PhD in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MLS and an MEd with specialization in evaluation and measurement from Kent State University.