GWLA Staff

Joni M. Blake, Ph.D.
Executive Director
5109 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO  64110
OFF: 816-926-8765
FAX: 816-926-8790
CELL: 913-426-6676
joni@gwla.org

Anne E. McKee, MLS
Program Officer for
Resource Sharing

6635 W. Happy Valley Road
Suite A104, #302
Glendale, AZ 85310
OFF:
623-583-6411
FAX:
623-583-6412
anne@gwla.org

James Dildine, MA, MLIS
Program Officer for
Digital Collections

Marriott Library
295 S. 1500 E. Rm. 327
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0860
OFF: 801-585-5804
FAX: 801-585-5549
jim@gwla.org

Planning and Organization Committee

The Planning and Organization Committee manages strategic and tactical planning processes, assesses how the organization is meeting its strategic and tactical goals, and oversees general organizational structure and management. Specifically, the committee:

  • Obtains updates from GWLA governance units and staff for updates to the annual tactical plan.
  • Assesses continual progress towards meeting the objectives of the tactical plan.
  • Identifies long-range organizational objectives and areas of new interests.
  • Conducts periodic environmental scans of the organization while taking into account the broader academic research library community
  • Reviews and recommends updates to the strategic plan, at minimum every three years.

Committee Roster

Sara Lowman (Chair)
Vice Provost and University Librarian
Fondren Library MS-44
Rice University
P. O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
713-348-2457
713-348-5859 (Fax)
E-mail: lowman@sparta.rice.edu

Karyle Butcher
Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-4501
541-737-7300
541-737-1328 (Fax)
E-mail: karyle.butcher@orst.edu

Don Dyal
Dean of Libraries
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-0002
806-742-2261
806-742-0737 (Fax)
E-mail: donald.dyal@ttu.edu


Joyce Ogburn
University Librarian and Director
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
333 Marriott Library
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0860
801-585-9521
801-581-3997 (Fax)
E-Mail: joyce.ogburn@library.utah.edu