Dean's Administrative Office

Lisa has been the Assistant Dean for Technical and Collections Services at the Penn State University Libraries since 2005. Major responsibilities include administration of Cataloging and Metadata Services, Serials and Acquisitions Services, the Department for Information Technologies (I-Tech), electronic resources licensing, and budget oversight for a collections budget of $17 million. Staff includes 13 librarians (tenure-track faculty), 62 classified staff, and 6 wage staff, including three department heads who are direct reports. Lisa is responsible for the successful planning, organization, policy development, implementation, and direction of all aspects of these areas and is a member of the Dean’s administrative team.

 

Overall responsibilities include developing strategic directions in collaboration with associate and assistant deans, department heads, subject specialists, and campus librarians throughout the library system; fostering effective working relationships with library and academic colleagues; enhancing and assessing service quality and operational efficiency; and playing a leadership role in library-wide planning initiatives. Lisa represents the Libraries in a wide range of consortia and partnerships at the state, regional, and national levels.

 

As a member of the American Library Association, Lisa has chaired several ALA committees and sections, including the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Acquisitions Section. She currently serves as a member of the ALCTS Fundraising Committee. At Penn State, Lisa is co-chair of Penn State's participation in the CIC universities' partnership with Google in the library digitization project.

 

Lisa's research centers on library collaborations, collection development, and serials acquisitions. Her most recent articles include, "It's All About Teamwork: Working in a Consortial Environment" in Technicalities and "A Recipe for Success: Two Cups of Collaboration, Two Cups of Hard Work, and a Cup of Good Timing" in Against the Grain.

 

Lisa participated in the Penn State IT Leaders Program in 2008-2009, Leadership Centre County in 2008 and the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) Research Library Leadership Fellows Program in 2004-2006. She is the recipient of the 2002 Esther J. Piercy Award given by the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services, which recognizes the "contribution to those areas of librarianship included in library collections and technical services by a librarian with not more than ten years of professional experience who has shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution and leadership."

 

Lisa has a BA in History and a master's degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

Email: lgerman@psu.edu 

 

 

CIC/Google Book Search Project

CMS Implementation Team

Digital Initiative Steering Commitee (DISC)

Next Generation Public Interface Team

OCLC Reclamation Project

RLG Shared Print Coordinating Committee

Sony Reader Project

Web Steering Committee

 

 

Organizational chart of Lisa's areas

 

 

To access Lisa's blog, click on http://www.personal.psu.edu/lbg10/blogs/liminality_rules/

 

 

Lisa's Vita