Self-Study - External Review Team

Larry Hardesty is currently the Interim University Librarian at Winona State University.  He retired in 2006 after serving more than thirty years as an academic librarian, including as Dean of the Library (2004-2006) at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK), College Librarian (1995-2004) at Austin College, Director of Library Services (1983-1994) at Eckerd College,  and Head of the Reference Department (1975-1983) at DePauw University.  He has served in several positions in the Association of College of Research Libraries (ACRL), including president (1999-2000), member of the board of directors, chair of the college libraries section (1995-1996), member of the College and Research Libraries Editorial Board (1990-1996) and chair of the Charlotte ACRL National conference (2003). His other publications include Faculty and the Library:  The Undergraduate Experience (Ablex, 1991) and Books, Bytes and Bridges (ALA, 2000). His articles on library instruction, collection development, computer center and library relationships, and faculty and administrators attitudes towards the academic library have been published in College & Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, portal,  Library Issues, and numerous other library journals.  His article ‘Faculty Culture and Bibliographic Instruction:  An Exploratory Analysis,” published in Library Trends (Fall 1995) received the ACRL Instruction Section’s Publication of the Year Award for 1995.   He currently serves on the editorial boards of portal and Library Issues.  In 2001, Hardesty received the ACRL Academic Research Librarian of the Year.  In 2002, he received an outstanding alumnus award from UNK.  Previously he had received the distinguished alumnus award from the School of Library and Information studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002), where he received his MALA and the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science (2000), where he received his Ph.D. in library and information science.  He continues to serve as the Founding Director of the College Library Directors’ Mentor program and has matched over 200 first-year college library directors with mentors during the 15 year history of the program.  He also continues to serve as the liaison between ACRL and the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition.

Anita Evans - Library Director, UW LaCrosse

Kathy Pletcher - Associate Provost for Information Services & Chief Information Officer, UW Green Bay