NISO Fall Assessment Training Series, Session Two, Managing the crisis or leading out of the crisis? 9.25.20

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.

Lorraine Haricombe is the Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin. She has previously served as Dean of the University of Kansas Libraries (2006-14), where she was Provost’s designate for implementing the Open Access policy at KU, the first public university in the USA where faculty adopted an institutional policy on Open Access. Haricombe is President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and previously held leadership positions as president of the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), chair of the Steering Committee of Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and the PubMed Central Advisory Board. She currently serves on IFLA’s Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee. Haricombe holds doctoral and master’s degrees in library and information science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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.