Assessing Liaison Librarians : Documenting Impact for Positive Change

Daniel C. Mack is Associate Dean for Collection Strategies and Services at the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park, USA, where he provides leadership in policy creation and implementation, strategic planning, program development, and assessment for library collections. An active member of the American Library Association, Mack was recently appointed to ALA s Committee on Library Advocacy. Recent publications include work as co-editor of the Association of College and Research Libraries monograph Interdisciplinarity and Academic Libraries and as consulting editor for Brill s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Mack s current research interests include interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first-century academy, assessment of library collections and services, and Roman civilization in the age of Caesar Augustus.

Gary W. White is Associate Dean for Public Services in the University Libraries at the University of Maryland, USA. White has responsibility for library research and teaching services to the university as well as oversight of all subject libraries. He has a PhD in higher education, a master of business administration, and a master of library science and is also a member of the university’s blended and online learning commission. White has over twenty years of professional experience as an academic librarian and administrator, with numerous books, refereed journal articles, and scholarly presentations.