Dean's Administrative Office

Curriculum Vita

Lisa German
POB 530
Pine Grove Mills, PA 16868
814/237-0502
lgerman@psu.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Penn State University Library, University Park, Pennsylvania

Assistant Dean for Technical and Collections Services, September 2005 –
Major responsibilities include administration of serials and acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, information technology, electronic resources licensing, and budget oversight for a collections budget of $17 million. Staff includes 13 librarians (tenure-track faculty), 62 classified staff, and 12 wage staff, including three department heads who are direct reports. Responsible for the successful planning, organization, policy development, implementation, and direction of all aspects of these areas. 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. Represents the Libraries in a wide range of consortia and partnerships at the state, regional, and national levels.

University of Illinois Library, Urbana, Illinois

Technical Services Division Coordinator, August 2003 – August 2005
Represents Technical Services on the Library Administrative Council. Responsible for holding regular meetings of the division, seeking advice and consent from the division in matters affecting the division, coordinating the activities of the division, assuring the implementation of general library policies and procedures, and reporting regularly on the activities of the division.

Head of Acquisitions and Associate Professor of Library Administration, August 2003 – August 2005
Administers the Acquisitions Department that is responsible for ordering, claiming, receiving and approving payment for $13,000,000 worth of library materials in all formats. Establishes and implements acquisitions policies and procedures, monitors expenditures, and serves as the library liaison with vendors. Is an active member of the Collection Development Committee. Oversees acquisitions and serials system migration and the use of the acquisitions module in the integrated library system. Assists departmental librarians in fund management and oversees and coordinates several approval plans and blanket orders. The department consists of two other faculty members, eighteen support staff, two graduate assistants, and several student employees.

Head of Acquisitions and Assistant Professor of Library Administration, August 1998 – August 2003
Responsible for the operations of the Acquisitions Department of the University of Illinois Library.

Acting Head of Acquisitions and Assistant Professor of Library Administration, August 1997 – August 1998
Responsible for the management of the Acquisitions and Binding Department and its staff members. Acquisitions orders, receives, claims, and approves payment of eight million dollars annually. The binding budget averages $292,000 annually.

Assistant Acquisitions and Binding Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration, November 1996 – August 1997
Responsible for the day to day management of the Acquisitions and Binding Department and its thirty staff members. Acquisitions orders, receives, claims, and approves payment of $7.5 million annually. The binding budget averages $250,000 annually. Librarians are expected to fulfill all the requirements of promotion and tenure.

Wright State University Libraries, Dayton, Ohio

Head of Acquisitions, January 1996 – November 1996
Administratively responsible for the Acquisitions Department including ordering, receipt, claiming and payment of monographs, serials, and electronic resources. Acquisitions staff also provide reference assistance to patrons using the Current Periodicals Room. Coordinated activities of and set priorities for the department. Led, coached and trained a staff of 10 FTE and was responsible for the management of the $2,400,000 materials and access budget. Negotiated license agreements with database vendors. Member of the Management Advisory Council, advisory body to the University Librarian.

Acquisitions Team Leader, April 1994 – December 1995
Responsible for the management of the Acquisitions Team in the Collection and Networked Information Services Department including ordering, receipt, payment, and claiming of all monographs and serials, and staff and service in the Current Periodicals Room. Coordinated the activities of and helped set priorities for the Acquisitions team; managed 10.5 FTE staff and a $2,300,000 materials and access budget.

Acting Head of Bibliographic Control, June 1995 – September 1995
Responsible for the management of the Bibliographic Control Department. Oversaw the receipt of government documents, bindery, materials processing and the monitoring of the cataloging contract.

Assistant Head of Acquisitions, February 1993 – March 1994
Responsible for the daily supervision of the Acquisitions Department. Oversaw the order, receipt and claiming of incoming library materials and the staffing and service of the Current Periodicals room. Assisted in the management of the materials and access budget.


EDUCATION

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1992, M.S.L.I.S., Library Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1979, B.A., History


AWARDS AND PROGRAMS

Penn State IT Leaders Program, class of 2009.
The Penn State IT Leaders Program has been designed to enhance the broad set of competencies that Penn State IT leaders need to be successful in the future.

Leadership Centre County, class of 2008.
The mission of Leadership Centre County is to increase the community leadership pool by creating a support network for present and future leaders, to encourage increased participation for leadership in civic service, and to educate potential leaders on community issues, opportunities, and needs.

ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow, 2004-2006.
The program was designed in response to the increasing demands for succession planning at America’s very large research libraries.

Esther J. Piercy Award, 2002.
Given by the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services to recognize 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.”

University of Illinois Library Faculty and Staff Achievement Award, 2002.
Group Award presented to members of the Integrated System Coordinating Committee.

University of Illinois Library Faculty and Staff Achievement Award, 2001.
Group Award presented to the members of the Systems Assessment Task Force.


PUBLICATIONS

German, Lisa. Entry on “Bibliographic Utilities.” Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. (to be published in 2009)

German, Lisa. “No One Plans to Fail, They Fail to Plan: The Importance of Structured Project Planning.” Technicalities 29 (3): 1,7-9 (2009).

Ayers, Leighann, Beth Picknally Camden, Lisa German, Peggy Johnson, Caroline Miller and Karen Smith-Yoshimura. “What We’ve Learned from the RLG Partners Metadata Creation Workflows Survey.” Report produced by OCLC Research. Published online at: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-04.pdf (2009).

German, Lisa “It’s All About Teamwork: Working in a Consortial Environment.” Technicalities 28 (3): 1-5 (2008).

German, Lisa. “A Recipe for Success: Two Cups of Collaboration, Two Cups of Hard Work, and a Cup of Good Timing.” Against the Grain 20 (1): 34 (2008).

Guest editor, Against the Grain 15 (1) (2003).

German, Lisa B. “Group Therapy,” in Charleston Conference Proceedings 2002, p. 165, Libraries Unlimited, Westport, CT (2003).

German, Lisa B. and Karen A. Schmidt. “Finding the Right Balance: Campus Involvement in the Collections Allocation Process.” Library Collections and Technical Services 25 (4): 421-433 (2001).

German, Lisa B. and Karen A. Schmidt. “Honoring Faculty: Book Plates to Celebrate Faculty Achievements.” College and Research Libraries News 62 (11): 1066-1067, 1130 (2001).

German, Lisa B., Nancy Slight-Gibney, Dennis Lambert, and Kathleen Brown. Guide to the Management of the Information Resources Budget. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD (2001).

German, Lisa B. and Karen A. Schmidt. “Acquisitions.” Advances in Librarianship 24: 139-155 (2000).

German, Lisa B. “Acquisitions Personnel Management, Organization and Staffing Issues,” in Understanding the Business of Library Acquisitions, pp.346-359. Edited by Karen Schmidt. ALA, Chicago, IL (1999).

German, Lisa B. “Designing and Implementing a Consortial Approval Plan: The OhioLINK Experience (Report from the 1998 Charleston Conference).” Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 23 (2): 193-194 (1999).

German, Lisa B. “Emily Dunning Barringer,” in American National Biography, pp. 237-238. Edited by John Garraty and Mark Carnes. Oxford University Press, New York, NY (1999).

German, Lisa B, Ruth Dickstein, Marcia Evans, Jessica Grim and Sandra Rivers. “From Zero to Four: A Review of Four New Women’s Studies CD ROM Products.” Serials Librarian 35 (1/2): 59-84 (1998).

German, Lisa B. “Serials Acquisitions: Trends and Prospects,” in Technical Services Today and Tomorrow pp. 43-52. Edited by Michael Gorman. Libraries Unlimited, Englewood, CO (1998).

German, Lisa B. “In or Out—In House Innovation and Outsourcing Technical Services Alternatives for the 90s: A Report of an ALCTS Program (at the 1996 ALA Conference).” Library Acquisitions Practice & Theory 21: 77-79 (1997).

German, Lisa B. “Surviving the Serials Crisis: Are Ejournals an Answer: A Report of the Program Sponsored by the ACRL Journal Costs in Academic Libraries Discussion Group.” Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 20 (2): 199-200 (1996).

German, Lisa B. “Let the Sun Shine In: Evaluating Ethics in Publisher/Vendor Library Relations: A Report of the Program” Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 19 (1): 120-121 (1995).

German, Lisa B. “ALCTS Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library Materials Discussion Group: Vendor Discounts: A Report of ALA Midwinter 1994.” Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory 18 (3): 313-316 (1994).

German, Lisa B. “A Closer World: A Review of Acquisitions Literature, 1992.” Library Resources and Technical Services 37 (3) (1993).


ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Library Association 1991 –
     Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, 1993 –
     Association of College and Research Libraries, 1995 –
     Library Administration and Management Association, 1995 – 1998; 2005 –

American Library Association of Ohio, 1993 – 1994

Miami Valley Association of Health Sciences Librarians, 1993 – 1996

Pennsylvania Library Association, 2005 –


UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Penn State University

CIC/Google Book Search Project co-leader, 2007 –

Collection Development Advisory Group, 2005 –

Collection Development Council, 2005 –

Colloquium Committee, 2006 –

Dean’s Library Council, 2005 –

Identity Access and Management Committee, 2007 – 2008

Information Technology Strategies Committee, 2005 –

Information Technology Coordination and Communication Group, 2009 –

Library Faculty Organization, 2005 –

Library Management Council (formerly Department Heads), 2005 –

OCLC/HathiTrust Interface Project, Metadata Team, 2009 –

RLG Journal Preservation Project, 2008 –

Web Steering Team, 2005 – 2006

University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Illinois Library Computing Services Office Publications Task Force, 2004 – 2005

Illinois Library Computing Services Office Voyager Acquisitions and Serials Implementation Team, co-chair, 2002

Illinois Library Computing Services Office Systems Assessment Task Force, 2001

Illinois Libraries Computing Services Office Statewide Planning Committee, 1998 – 2000

Illinois Libraries Computing Services Office Statewide Acquisitions and Serials Implementation Planning Committee, 1997 – 1999

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Faculty Senate, 1997 – 1998.

University of Illinois Library Integrated Systems Coordinating Committee, 1996 – 2005

University of Illinois Library Collection Development Committee, 1996 – 2005

University of Illinois Library Voyager Acquisitions Team chair, 2002 – 2005

University of Illinois Library Budget Implementation Task Force, 2004 – 2005

University of Illinois Library Access Strategy Team, 2004 – 2005

Wright State University

Take our Daughters to Work Planning Committee, 1995.

Servant Leadership Advisory Committee, 1995.


PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

ACQNET Editorial Board member, 2000 - 2005

American Library Association Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship Bibliography Task Force, 1993 – 1997

Association of College and Research Libraries Women’s Studies Section Technical Services Committee, 1996 – 2000

Association of College and Research Libraries 2009 Conference Workshop Committee Member, 2008 – 2009

Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), Board Member and Chair, Acquisitions Section, 2004 – 2005

Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Acquisitions Section, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, 2003 – 2004

ALCTS Acquisitions Section Member-at-Large, 1999 – 2002

ALCTS Budget and Finance Committee, 2002 – 2004

ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group, Vice Chair/Chair Elect, 2006 – 2007

ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group Chair, 2008

ALCTS Fundraising Committee Member, 2006 – 2008

ALCTS Nominating Committee, 2006 – 2007

ALCTS Acquisitions Section Acquisitions Organization and Management Committee, 1997 – 2001

ALCTS Acquisitions Section Education Committee, 1996 – 1997.

ALCTS Acquisitions Section, Chair, Acquisitions Administrators Discussion Group, 1997.

ALCTS Acquisitions Section Guides Subcommittee, 1996 – 1997

Blackwell Jury Awards Committee, 2005 – 2006

Blackwell Jury Awards Chair, 2006 – 2007

Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award Committee Chair, 2007 – 2008

Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Heads of Acquisitions, chair, 2000 – 2003

CIC Technical Services Directors, chair, 2009 – 2010

Leadership in Library Acquisitions Committee Member, 2009 – 2010

Miami Valley Association of Health Sciences Librarians Collection Development Committee, 1994 – 1995.

Palinet Finance Committee member, 2006 – 2007

PRESENTATIONS

“Teamwork.” University Libraries In-Service Day, University Park, PA, January 9, 2009.

“How will the CIC Google Project benefit the Penn State Community?” University Libraries Brown Bag Series, University Park, PA, January 7, 2009. (Co-presenter with Ann Snowman)

“A Recipe for a Great Team: Why Some Teams Work and Others Fail.” West Virginia Library Association Conference, White Sulphur Springs, WV, December 3-5, 2008.

“Google Book Project at Penn State.” Presented to the University Libraries, University Park, PA, January 28, 2008. (Co-presenter with Ann Snowman)

“Approval Plan Assessment in Two Large ARL Libraries: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Pennsylvania State University.” Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 8-10, 2007. (Co-author and co-presenter with Bob Alan, Tina Chrzastowski, and Lynn Wiley)

“Building a Knowledgebase.” Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 3-5, 2005. (Co-author and co-presenter with Michael Norman and Wendy Shelburne)

“The Three C’s of Library-Vendor Relations: Collaboration, Cooperation, and Communication.” Charleston Conference, November 3-5, 2005. (Co-author and co-presenter with Eve Davis)

“Evaluation of User-Centered Library Technical Services and IT Support.” Annual ACRL Conference, Charlotte, NC, April 10-13, 2003. (Co-author and co-presenter with K.C. Elhard, Qiang Jin, and John Weible)

“What Approval Plans Can Do for You.” Presented to the Acquisitions and Collection Development librarians at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, February 3, 2003. (Co-author and co-presenter with Tina Chrzastowski and Diane Schmidt)

“Finding the Right Balance: Campus Involvement in the Collections Allocation Process.” Timberline Conference, May 19-22, 2001. (Co-author and co-presenter with Karen Schmidt)

“UIUC Preparations for DRA Implementation.” ILCSO Technical Services Forum, Chicago, IL, October 21, 1997.

“From Zero to Four.” ACRL Women’s Studies Discussion Group Panel Presentation, ALA Midwinter Conference, Washington, DC, February 17, 1997.
“Internet Resources.” Presented to MARBI at the American Library Association, ALA Annual Conference, summer, 1993.

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