Daniel D. Liestman | Curriculum Vita
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LIBRARY DIRECTOR | Donald North Library, 2017-
Heritage University, Toppenish, WA
Plans, organizes, facilitates, and evaluates high quality and effective library services for campus and regional programs. I also develop and implement procedures and processes; integrate new technology; design and manage operations; direct and control selection and acquisition of print and non-print materials, information management systems, and media services; manage Inventory; develop and administer budgets; supervise staff; develop community relations.
Facilitate and integrate quality library and information services for the university community. (i.e. students, faculty, administrators and staff) in coordination with other academic support units and the faculty at large
- Provide leadership in planning, developing Innovative programs, and information literacy instruction
- Develop an annual budget request based on needs aligned to university goals. Authorize all library financial transactions
- Act as a liaison between the library and faculty; serve on university committees as assigned or required
- Serve as Chair of the Library, Information Resources, & Instructional Technology Committee
- Supervise collection development and facility planning, supporting academic programs, evaluation and selection of all library and research materials
- Oversee the operation of front line service; direct student inquiries, provide instruction in online database research, assist public patrons, and instruct students, staff, and faculty on all aspects of information literacy.
- Provide library orientation, create library study guides, and other instructional opportunities as requested by students and faculty.
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN | DeVry University, 2015 –2017
DeVry Education Group, Downers Grove, IL
Selected to lead the conversion from multiple onsite locations to a single virtual library. Provide collaborative leadership; work with librarians, administrators, faculty, and students to advance the library’s role as an integral part of the University. Commitment to student success and to the provision of excellent service. Dotted line responsibility for development, implementation, and oversight of 17 onsite Learning Commons.
- Oversee development and assessment of long range and strategic plans for the Virtual Library and onsite Learning Commons toadvance the mission of the University
- Assures that the resources of the Virtual Library effectively support the curriculum of the University and Keller Graduate School of Management.
- Promotes awareness and use of Virtual Library and/or the Learning Commons
- Directly supervise 4 FTE Librarians
Key Achievements:
Lead the transition from 26 locations to a completely online library
Established mission, vision, values statements and service charter
Created online information literacy program
NPS Score 96
Established online reference program including chat, text, 800 number, and Adobe Connect/ Webex-based consultations
Led delivery of training program for Learning Commons staff
Created study skills appsincluding Parable of the 7 Peas and Guy Brarian and his nemesis Miss Information
Implemented monthly professional development program for librarians
Key Achievements Continued:
Successfully pitched The Pirates of Reference an information literacy online game and led the content development crew includin’ writin’ ACRL Framework-based questions in yer basic Pirate-speak.
Led the development of information literacy curricula for a new fast track baccalaureate program.
Collaborate across the organization to develop a virtual tutoring solution
LIBRARY DIRECTOR | Seattle Metro, 2010 –2015
DeVry University, Federal Way, WA
Plan and direct all local library functions, assisting students, faculty, and staff in the effective use of library resources. Facilitate remote and on-site information literacy. Acquire and maintain resources to support the curriculum. Recruit, hire, train, manage, and evaluate staff. Collaborate with IT to develop and launch accessible electronic resources. Maintain and update the local library website.
Direct the local Academic Support Center. Tutor students in writing,social sciences, humanities, and business courses.Coordinate local tutoring needs with other ASC Directors. Conduct regular academic success workshops. Produce study skills screencasts. Mentor students in a formal mentoring program.
Directly supervise up to 2.5 FTE.
Key Achievements:
Instrumental in90%+ of students indicating improved information literacy learning and satisfaction
StartedtheOnline Information Literacy (OIL) program
Initiatedthe liaison program with the online College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Business and Management
Spearheading development and delivery of online interactive study skills workshops with 90%+ satisfaction
Co-facilitating “Information Literacy Champions” faculty development program
Lead Training and Development Team in providing internal and external training
Co-lead the team responsible for University Library electronic resources selection and collections policy
One of three Library Mentors who assumed national-level leadership duties upon Interim University Librarian’s sudden death
INSTRUCTOR| SCHOOL OF ADULT LEARNING,2005 – Present (concurrent)
Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
Instruct American History classes in an accelerated adult learning baccalaureate program. Created curricula, onsite and virtual lecturing, as well other learning activities. Grade student performance. Foster positive learning culture that encourages collaboration and critical thinking.
FACULTY | Axia College, 2009 – 2011
University of Phoenix Online Campus, Phoenix, AZ
Taught online accelerated American History courses. Oversaw online classroom functions. Facilitated discussion and delivered supplemental learning materials. Delivered instruction in group and individual settings. Assessed student performance and recommended strategies for studying and retaining key information.
PRINCIPAL | PRIVATE CONSULTANT,2005 –2007
Independent Clients,Tomah, WI
Directed all facets of self-built business delivering placement skills. Gathered, analyzed and translated client
needs into tailored solutions. Worked closely with clients in follow-up to measure placement success.
Handled marketing, sales, financials, business development and client outreach.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR | UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN, LIBRARY SERVICES, 2001 –2005
Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
Directedeight FTE Faculty and five LTAs. Defined strategic directions with department coordinators for research, learning, and outreach. Directed library-wide planning initiatives. Cultivated and nurtured effective working relationships with library and academic colleges. Developed strategic directions with department coordinators
for research, learning, and outreach. Provided support for staff development activities. Counseled staff and advised Director on personnel matters. Coordinated employee recruitment and hiring. Subject librarian for history and religion & philosophy.
Key Achievements:
Guided organization through comprehensive restructuring that resulted in better patron service and satisfaction.
Assessed service quality with a suggestion box, “mystery shopper” program, studentadvisory board, and LibQual+
Involved in planning for Library addition
CHAIR | SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES LIBRARIES | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, HALE LIBRARY, 1997 – 2001
Kansas State University Libraries, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Mentored, trained and led 12 FTE librarians and six classified staff.Crafted mission statement, goals, and policies. Participated in reference consultations and instructional activities. Developed and managed Reference Collection. Subject specialist for Anthropology. Interim subject specialist responsibilities for Business, Journalism & Mass Communications, Ethnic Studies, and Education.
Key Achievements:
Implemented a tiered reference service that improved library reputation for accessibility.
Developed and implemented cross-functional training program
Developed an interest group for teaching and library faculty
SPECIALIST FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES | ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (TENURED), 1989 –1997
Seattle Pacific University Library, Seattle, WA
Primary duties were in conjunction with the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the
School of Business and Economics. Responsible for collection management, user education, and,
advanced assistance in areas of specialization as well as general reference. Liaison to the Intensive English Language Institute
Key Achievements:
Implemented an integrated information literacy program
Served as director's designate in his absence
Actively involved in planning for new Library and moving the collections
Participated in a variety of initiatives to increase the University’s student and faculty diversity
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN/BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION COORDINATOR | LIBRARIAN III, 1988 –1989
Kilmer Area Library, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ
Responsible for developing, coordinating, and planning instruction program in an undergraduate
library. Provided general reference services. Collection responsibilities for History, Communications, Religion, and Puerto Rican Studies
Key Achievements:
Developed an information literacy program for student athletes
Active in diversity-building initiatives for Livingston College
Served as instructor of the for-credit courses; Bibliography and Research Techniques and Library Research Techniques
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN | INSTRUCTOR, 1985 –1988
Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, University of Alabama Libraries, Tuscaloosa, AL
Provided reference and federal government documents services at the main library. Provided online database searching, bibliographic instruction. Collection development for selected areas. Processed reference serials.
Key Achievements:
Interim responsibility for overall operation of ILL Office including supervision of two paraprofessionals and five student employees
Organization and inventory of extensive bound newspaper collection
Master of Science in Library Science (ALA accredited), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Master of Arts in American History, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, History and Communication, Black Hills State College, Spearfish, SD
Diploma, Program in Radio and Television Broadcasting, Brown Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Washington State Librarian Certificate, #6506
Completed 15 hours toward a Master of Science in Educational Technology, DeVry University
Viterbo University
College of Adult Learning
2005 -
HIS 308 The Vietnam War (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS 346 Colonial America to 1763 (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS 351 History of the American West (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS 354 American Environmental History (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS 486 The American Civil War (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS 350 Twentieth Century Revolutions (3 credits)
University of Phoenix
Axia College
2009 –2011
HIS 115 US History to 1865 (3 credits)
HIS 135 The American Experience Since 1945 (3 credits)
Florida Gulf Coast University
College of Arts and Sciences
2003 –2004
HIS 2010 American History to 1877 (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
Seattle Pacific University
College of Education, Division of Continuing Studies
1992 to present
HIS/ESS 5003 The American Revolution (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5020 The West (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5503 US History Since 1877(5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5535 The Civil War (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5536 The Vietnam War (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5538 History of Mexico (3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5539 World War II (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS/ESS 5703 The Great War (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
ESS xxxx What If/If Only: Counterfactual History—under development
College of Arts and Sciences
1996 –1997
HIS 1500 America's Story (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
HIS 2502 American History to 1877 (5 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
Rutgers University
Livingston College
LRS 105Bibliography and Research Techniques(3 credits)—designed and delivered curriculum
LRS 100 Library Research Techniques(1.5 credits)—team designed and delivered curriculum
‘“Our Present Ice-olated Position:’ The Cold Southern Comfort of Ice, 1860-1865,” submitted to Civil War History.
“Liberty, Legacy, and Legitimacy: The Fourth of July in Arkansas, 1864-1876,” being revised for Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
“‘Strangers Shall Be Joined With Them:’ Protestant Home Missions among the Utah Mormons, 1870-1920,” being revised for The Journal of Mormon History.
“DeVry University Library Services Pilots ‘Information Literacy Champions’ eCollege Training Program” Learning Exchange, 32: 2(December 2015): 6-7. Co-authored with Mary Howrey.
‘“The Day We Used to Celebrate;’ The Fourth of July as a National Day in the South, 1860-1865,” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 22: 1 (2015):45-71.
“‘We Have Found What We Have Been Looking For!’ The Creation of the Mormon Religious Enclave among the Catawba,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 103 (July 2002): 226-246.
“Looking Back to the Future: Turn of the Last Century Librarians Look Ahead to the Twentieth Century,” The Reference Librarian 78 (2002): 25-46.
“Reference Collection Management Policies: Lessons from Kansas,” College and Undergraduate Libraries, 8 (no. 1, 2001): 79-112.
World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia, contributed entries on “Comfort Women” and “Internment of U.S. Citizens of Japanese Ancestry,” New York: Garland, 2001.
“Reference Services and the Adult International Learner,” The Reference Librarian, 69/70 (2000): 363-378.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, contributed entries on “Catholics,” “Chaplains,” “Choctaws,” and “Matamoros,” Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2000.
“Horizontal Inter-ethnic Relations: Chinese and Native Americans in the Nineteenth CenturyWest,” Western Historical Quarterly 30 (Autumn 1999): 327-349.
“Chinese and the Natural Environment of the Pacific Northwest,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 90 (Winter 1998/99): 17-29
Notable Women in the Physical Sciences, contributed entry on Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
“Utah's Chinatowns: The Development and Decline of Extinct Ethnic Enclaves,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 64 (Winter 1996): 70-95.
Dictionary of American Biography, ninth supplement, entries on J. C. Penney, Raymond Blaine Fosdick, and Alexander Sachs; tenth supplement Clarence Dill and Harry Cain. New York: Scribner's, New York: Scribner's, 1994, 1995.
“The Chinese of Bellville,” New Jersey History, 112 (Spring/Summer 1994): 21-33.
“A Human Ecology Approach to the Development and Decline of Extinct Chinatowns in the American West,” Ethnic Forum, 14 (no. 2, 1994).
“Chinese and Indians: Interethnic Interface in the Nineteenth Century West,” in The Repeal and Its Legacy; Proceedings of the 1993 Chinese Historical Society of America Conference (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1994): 160-167.
‘“The Various Celestials among Our Town’: Euro-American Response to the Chinese of Port Townsend,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 85 (July 1994): 93-104.
‘“To Win Redeemed Souls From Heathen Darkness’: Protestant Response to the Chinese of the Pacific Northwest in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Western Historical Quarterly, 24 (May 1993): 179-201.
‘“Chance in the Midst of Design’: Approaches to Library Research Serendipity,” RQ, 31(Summer 1992): 524-532.
“The Disadvantaged Minority Student and the Academic Library,” Urban Academic Librarian, 8 (Winter 1991/92): 13-19.
“Implementing Library Instruction for International Students,”PNLA Quarterly, 58 (Winter 1992): 11-14.
“Library Orientation for International Students in their Native Language,” co-authored with Connie Wu, Research Strategies, 8 (Fall 1990): 191-196.
“Library Users Whose Second Language is English: A Bibliography of Sources, 1964-1989,” ED 311-911, Alexandria, VA: ERIC, 1989.
“Chinese Laborers in Reconstruction Era Alabama,” Alabama Heritage, 8 (April, 1988): 2-13.
“The Chinese in the Black Hills of South Dakota,” Journal of the West, 27 (January 1988): 74-83.
Daily Life in America for Choice, April 2008
International Migration Outlook: Annual Report, 2007 for Choice, January 2008
Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris for Choice, October, 2007
Immigration, for Choice, June 2007
Worldmark Encyclopedia of States, for Choice, September, 2007
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, for Choice, January, 2007
History May Be Searched in Vain: A Military History of the Mormon Battalion, for Choice, November, 2006
Immigration and Asylum; From 1900 to the Present, for Choice, February, 2006
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, for Choice, June, 2006
Multiculturalism in the United State, for Choice, October, 2005
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, for Choice, September, 2004
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, for Choice, September 2004
Generals in Blue and Gray, for Choice, June, 2005
Key Thinkers on Space and Place, for Choice, January 2005
Ancestry in America: A Comparative City-By-City Guide to over 200 Ethnic Backgrounds—With Rankings, forChoice, December, 2003
Asian American Short Story Writers, for Choice, December, 2003
Immigration the world Over: Statues, Policies, and Practices, for Choice, January, 2004
International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas, for Choice, April, 2004
United States History: A Multicultural, interdisciplinary Guide to Information Sources, for Choice, October, 2003
Joseph Smith for Library Journal, November 1, 2002, p. 100.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy for Choice, September, 2002, p. 76
The Health of the Country for Library Journal, September 1, 2002, p. 194.
Trapped for Library Journal, August 15, 2002, p.119.
Invisible Giants for Library Journal, May 15, 2002, p. 109.
Empire and Revolution for Library Journal, March 15, 2002, p. 93.
Reconstructing the Dreamland and Riot and Remembrance for Library Journal, February 15, 2002, p. 158.
German Atrocities, 1914 for Library Journal, November 1, 2001, p. 108.
Dictionary of the American West for Library Journal, September 15, 2001, p. 68.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration for Library Journal, September 15, 2001, p. 69.
America’s Historic Sites for Library Journal, June 15, 2001, p. 62.
The Oxford Companion to United States History for Library Journal, May 1, 2001, p. 72
Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidential use of Force, 1789-2000 for Choice, June 2001, p.1777.
The Lincoln Enigma: The Changing Faces of an American Icon for Library Journal, May 15, 2001, p. 114-115.
Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination for Library Journal, May 15, 2001, p. 115.
History Resource Center: US for Choice, June 2001, p.1777.
Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment for Choice, March, 2001, p. 1249.
The Doughboys: America and the First World War for Library Journal, January 2001, p. 131-2.
Encyclopedia of Modern Separatist Movements for Choice, October, 2000, p. 310.
Immigration and the Law: A Dictionary for Choice, July-August 2000, p. 1960.
Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II for Library Journal, January 2000, p 132.
Frontier Children for Library Journal Oct 15, 1999, p. 84.
Into the West: The Story of Its People for Library Journal October 1, 1999, p. 111.
A Life of Albert Pike for Southwest Historical Quarterly October 2000, p. 326.
Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography, for Choice, June 2000, p. 1786.
To the North Anna River, for Library Journal April 1, 2000, p. 115.
Anthropological Literature on Disc and Anthropology Bibliography on Disc for Electronic Resources Review Electronic Resources Review 3 (September 1999): 101-103.
Jefferson and the Indians by Anthony F. C. Wallace for Library Journal,September 1, 1999, p. 213.
Into the West by Walter Nugent for Library Journal, October 1, 1999, p. 111.