SDSU Library Council

Activities, Actions and Advisory Role:

Library Council is an advisory body to the Dean of Library and Information Access. In a spirit of shared governance, Council's activities and actions involve Library strategic planning, leadership and the consideration and discussion of Library-wide issues.

Council leads the strategic planning process through the creation and oversight of strategic planning task forces developed to address the Library's response to trends in the Library profession and to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world of information, technology, and users. Council develops charges for the task forces and accepts, reviews, and ratifies task force reports so that the Library continues to aspire to the highest quality in service, instruction, collections, staff, and physical environment. Furthermore, Council consults with faculty, staff, students, the Senate Library Committee, the Friends of the Library and others and solicits their feedback to identify the nature of present and future challenges and opportunities.

Council acts as a leadership body by identifying, reviewing and responding to challenges based upon a shared vision that is in concert with the Library's mission and service pledge. Council acts in its advisory capacity by responding to requests from the Dean or by itself presenting issues of concern. Council strives to be a consensus-builder and works to communicate the rationale of its decisions and to persuade the Library community that these decisions are based upon a vision that is shared and cohesive.

Council also acts in the consideration and discussion of important Library-wide issues and concerns. Council monitors and takes into consideration the impact of issues and concerns felt throughout the organization as a whole vs. issues affecting a single Library department. Council monitors and considers concerns but does not necessarily arbitrate issues.

Library Council is firmly committed to the Library's standard of excellence that places patrons and their needs at the core of everything the Library does.

Current Library Council Membership

Connie V. Dowell, Dean

• Jon Cawthorne, Associate Dean
• Mark Lester, Director of Administrative Operations and Communication
• Mark Stover, Assistant University Librarian for Research
• Open position, Director of Library Information Technologies and Digital Initiatives
• Michael Perkins, Head of Collection Development
• Anne Turhollow, Head of Reference Services
• Robert Ray, Head of Special Collections
• Stephen Savage, Head of Technical Services
• Mark Figueroa, Project Manager, Information and Digital Technologies
• Carol Phillips, Operations Manager, Information and Digital Technologies

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