Kathryn Deiss Joins OMS

Welcome to Chicago-based Kathryn Deiss who joined ARL full-time as the
OMS Program Officer for Training on May 1, 1995.  Kathryn brings with
her a solid background of experience and a driving enthusiasm for the
creation and delivery of high quality learning experiences for our
library colleagues.

Kathryn is not a new face here at ARL.  Working as an adjunct OMS
faculty member for the past several years, Kathryn co-designed the OMS
Women in Library Leadership Training Institute and the ARL/OMS
Redesigning Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Institute in
addition to facilitating many of the OMS Training Institutes.  Her
main interests are: leadership development; continual improvement of
library services through creative innovation; and group dynamics and
human relations in changing work environments.

Kathryn's energy and commitment stem from over 17 years of broad
experience in public, special, and academic libraries.  She was most
recently employed at Northwestern University where she was the Head of
Interlibrary Loan.  In that capacity Kathryn assumed a leadership role
in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation by serving on the
Virtual Electronic Library Project Steering Committee.  Previously,
she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J.  Watson
Library as Serials and Auction Catalog Librarian for five years.
Additionally, Kathryn has designed and delivered a wide range of
leadership, management, and technicaltraining programs for numerous
libraries and regional systems such as the North Suburban Library
System (NSLS) and the State Library of Illinois (ILLINET) for whom she
was a principal Chicago-area OCLC trainer. She has held many elected
and appointed positions within LAMA and RASD.  Kathryn received her
M.L.S. from the State University of New York at Albany.

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ARL 182
A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions
Association of Research Libraries
October 1995