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Larry Hardesty, Interim
University Librarian, Winona State University. Hardesty’s interests include information literacy and the role of the
library in undergraduate education. He served as Dean of the Library at
the University of Nebraska at Kearney and as Library Director at Austin
College and Eckerd College. Past president of ACRL, he was the 2002
Academic/Research Librarian of the Year and 2003 Chair of the ACRL
National Conference. He has published Faculty and the Library: The
Undergraduate Experience (1991); Books, Bytes, and Bridges:
Libraries and Computer Centers in Academic Institutions (2000); and
The Role of the Library in the First College Year (2007).
Thomas G. Kirk, Library Director
and Coordinator of Information Services, Earlham College.
Kirk is interested in
information literacy, organizational effectiveness, and the role of
electronic resources in undergraduate education. He has served as
consultant or program reviewer for 40 colleges and universities as well as
organizations devoted to higher education. Also a past president of ACRL,
Kirk was 2004 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year; Earlham College won
the 2001 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award under his leadership. Kirk is former Library Director at Berea College and the University of
Wisconsin, Parkside. His books include Increasing the Teaching Role of
Academic Libraries (1984) and Academic Libraries: Achieving
Excellence in Higher Education (1992).
Evelyn Curry, Assistant Professor
of Library & Information Studies, Texas Women’s University. Professor Curry specializes in information theory, patron-librarian
interaction, and multicultural librarianship. Her essays have appeared in
Journal of Theory Construction and Testing and Library Trends;
she also edited Technological Advances in Reference: A Paradigm Shift?
(2001). Curry is a former professor in the School of Library &
Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma and public services
librarian at the University of Northern Iowa. She was a Fulbright Senior
Scholar at Moi Unviersity in Kenya and at the National University of
Science and Technology in Zimbabwe.
Julie Todaro, Dean of Library
Services, Austin Community College.
Dean Todaro’s interests include staff development and the future of
customer service, organizational effectiveness, and the integration of
learning and work. She is Dean of Faculty Development and Learning
Resource Services for the Rio Grande Campus and extension sites of Austin
Community College. She is Adjunct Professor in the Information School at
the University of Texas and a former professor in the School of
Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. Currently
President of ACRL, she is past President of the Texas Library Association
and winner of the TLA Librarian of the Year Award (1996). She has
published Staffing Issues for the Year 2000: Managing and Working in
the Libraries of the Future (1997) and Training Staff and
Volunteers to Provide Extraordinary Customer Service (2006).
Mark Tucker, Dean of Library &
Information Resources, Abilene Christian University.
Tucker specializes in the history of academic libraries and higher
education and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the role of
library resources in graduate and undergraduate research. He is Professor
Emeritus of Library Science and former Humanities, Social Science &
Education Librarian, Purdue University. His publications include
Untold Stories: Civil Rights, Libraries, and Black Librarianship
(1998) and Libraries & Culture: Historical Essays Honoring the Legacy
of Donald G. Davis, Jr. (2006).
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