Planning, Assessing, and Communicating Library Impact: Putting the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education into Action (Off-RoadShow Virtual Workshop)

Rhonda Huisman, MAE, MISLT is Dean of University Library at St. Cloud State University, where she directs library strategic planning, instruction, collections, and space as well as staffing, professional development, and outreach. Rhonda has researched faculty-librarian collaborations, information literacy, and the first-year experience, but her primary focus has been on collaborating with K-12 librarians, community colleges, and four-year institutions to research college-readiness initiatives. She attended the Harvard Leadership Institute, and is an alumna of the Immersion Assessment track and current Immersion faculty member. Recent publications and presentations at ALA, ACRL, LOEX, and the IUPUI Assessment Institute covered high-impact education practices, faculty-centered workshops, and communities of practice, and regularly teaches first-year seminars and education courses. She is an active member of local and state committees, ACRL committees, and served as Chair of the Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee in 2016-17. Learn more about Rhonda in her ACRL Member of the Week profile on ACRL Insider.

Lisa Stillwell, MILS, is Associate Librarian for Research Services at Franklin & Marshall College, where she is responsible for managing the research/reference, instruction, and interlibrary loan services. She is also an active member of the F&M community, serving on the General Education Advisory Committee, the F&M Votes Coalition, the Committee on Sexual Misconduct, and the Sexual Misconduct Hearing Panel. An active member of ACRL, she served on the Task Force on the First-Year Experience, has co-chaired National Conference Program Planning Committees since 2005, and served on the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education Task Force (2009 - 2011).