Charge
Mission: Provide leadership in the Library for teaching, research, outreach, and learning services that enhances the University's academic priorities, goals, and aspirations. The Leadership Team plans for the future, builds on one another's strengths, solves problems in a collaborative manner, communicates effectively, and builds bridges between units.
Motto: Do Better Together
Values:
- Commitment to the research and learning needs of faculty, students, and staff
- Open communication
- Integrity
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Understanding and respect for disciplinary differences
Groundrules for Accountability (established during the July 3, 2012 LDLT retreat):
- Decisions
- Collaboration
- Integrity
- Optimize
- Focus
- Optimism
- Stay engaged
- Respect for differences
- Know what we will share with staff
- Clarity to promote local decision-making
- Resolve differences by…
- Consensus and inclusion (vision and process)
- Honor unit discretion
- Delegate, when needed, to resolve
- Seek best for the whole
- Open and transparent
- Share what is needed
- Honor what is decided
Library Directors Leadership Team
Area | Name | Email Address |
|---|---|---|
AUL for Research and Learning Services | Kornelia Tancheva | |
| Director, Olin & Uris Libraries and the Library Annex Adjunct Professor of Music | Bonna Boettcher | |
Coordinator for Life Sciences | Mary Ochs | |
Director of Catherwood, Hospitality, and Management Libraries | Curtis Lyons | |
Director, John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and Coordinator of Fine Arts and Music Libraries | Eric Kofi Acree | |
Director, Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library and Coordinator for Physical Sciences | Erla P. Heyns |
Agendas and Minutes
Meeting Schedule
- Monday, June 15, 2015, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm; 235 Olin Library
- Monday, July 20, 2015, 3:00 - 4:30 pm; 235 Olin Library
- Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 316 Lincoln Hall
- Monday, September 21, 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am; Vet College
- Monday, October 26, 2015, 1:30 - 3:00 pm; 5th Floor Catherwood Library
- Monday, November 23, 2015, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm; Africana Library, Hoyt Fuller Room
- Monday, December 14, 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am; 420C Malott Hall
- Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 235 Olin Library
- Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 5th Floor Catherwood Library
- Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 235 Olin Library
- Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 420C Malott Hall
- Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 202A Mann Library
- Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 9:00 - 10:30 am; 316 Lincoln Hall
Organization Charts (September 2011):
- 3-Libraries (Hotel, ILR, JGSM)
- Olin/Uris, Annex
- Mann Library
- Research and Learning Services Org Chart
- FAM Cluster (Fine Arts, Africana, Music)
- Vet & EMPSL (Engineering, Math, Physical Science)
Miscellaneous:
- External Review of Cornell's Special Collections(from John Saylor)
- Assessment of Student Learning (from Janet McCue)
- CUL Assessment Examples (from Janet McCue)
- Powerpoint: Management Library Outreach Plan(from Elena MacGurn, 10-13-09)
From July 3, 2012 retreat:
From February 4, 2010 retreat:
- Notes from Meeting
- Draft Strategic Plan for Excellence: http://www.cornell.edu/reimagining/docs/012510-strategic-plan-final-draft.pdf
- Instruction and Outreach Summaries (MAO and KT)
From November 23, 2009 retreat:
- Notes from Meeting
- New York Times:"Leadership Without a Secret Code"
- The University of Minnesota Libraries: Changing the Paradigm
- Making a Difference: The Strategic Plan for Duke University
- President Skorton and Provost Fuch's Open Forum on the Strategic Planning Process, October 1, 2009
- 2009President's Address to Staff, October 12, 2009
- Stuart M. Basefsky. The Library as an Agent of Change: Pushing the Client Institution Forward. 1999. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/189/