NISO Fall Assessment Training Series, Session Three, How Research Leaders Use Assessment Data During a Pandemic, 10.2.20

In a rapidly changing environment what are the precedents that have helped our libraries cope effectively with the turmoil of COVID-19? We will hear from two publicly funded research libraries that are facing different environments and choices. The speakers will discuss how the presence and absence of data have helped them and hindered them in planning and making decisions, share lessons learned, and how they see leading their organizations into the future. We will discuss the impact on library staff and services and how the COVID-19 challenges have also provided opportunities for new ways to engage and innovate. We will discuss how data and evidence can help us answer emerging questions like: What does it mean to have a strong 'Work from Home' program and what are the implications for reimagining work, roles and responsibilities? What does COVID-19 mean for the library of the 21st century, its staff, its interactions with library users, and its collections? How people interact with information, content, and the creation of knowledge in universities?

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NISO Training Series

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.

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Bob Fox

Dean of Libraries, University of Louisville

Bob Fox has been the Dean, University Libraries at the University of Louisville since February 2011. Prior to that, he was Associate Dean for the Georgia Tech libraries from 2005-2011. He served as chair of the ARL Assessment Committee and as a member of the Libraries That Learn Design Team and the Governance Advisory Committee. He is a 2010 graduate of the ARL Leadership Fellows program and has served as a career coach/mentor to four fellows in ARL’s leadership and diversity programs. He has represented ARL nationally on the Assessment Conference planning committee and the ARL/ACRL/IPEDS Academic Library Survey Task Force. He currently serves on the ARL board of directors and previously served as president of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries and the Georgia Library Association. He holds a BBA and MBA in finance from the University of Georgia and an MSLS from Clark Atlanta University.

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Elaine Westbrooks

Vice Provost of University Libraries & University Librarian, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Since August 2017, Elaine L. Westbrooks has been the Vice Provost of University Libraries and University Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is responsible for the leadership and general administration of the University Libraries which includes 9 libraries with approximately 300 librarians, archivists, and staff. Westbrooks is a member of the Association of Research Libraries Scholars and Scholarship Committee, the Executive Committee of Triangle Research Libraries Network, the Digital Public Library of America Board of Directors, and the HathiTrust Board of Governors. She has a B.A. in Linguistics and a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.

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Martha Kyrillidou

CEO, QualityMetrics, LLC

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.