Interim Associate Dean for User Services

Professional Responsibilities

Coordinates Heads of Public Services, Learning & Outreach Services, Liaison Services and West Campus & Policy Sciences and Economics Libraries  to cultivate a forward-looking, collaborative environment, set user-centered service standards, and promote efficiency, consistency and infrastructure support across all public service units and operations.

Affiliations

• ABLD: Academic Business Library Directors
  • Statistics Co-chair
• ALA: American Library Association
  • College and Research Libraries
• SLA: Special Libraries Association
  • Academic Division
    Journal Editor for Practical Academic Librarianship
  • Business and Finance Division
  • Information Technology Division
    Chair
  • Leadership and Management Division
  • Texas Chapter
     

Education

• Master of Science in Library and Information Science, May 1995
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication, May 1992
  Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

Selected Papers

• Gilreath, Charles, Christine L. Foster, Leslie J. Reynolds and Sandra L. Tucker. "Lessons Learned by a Standing Search Committee: Developing Better Practices." Journal of Academic Librarianship (vol. 35, no.4, July 2009).  Available from TAMU Digital Repository http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/88072
• Smith, Michael and Leslie Reynolds. “The Street Team: An Unconventional Peer Program for Undergraduates.” Library Management (vol. 29, no.3, 2008).
• Smith, Michael, Leslie Reynolds, Jennifer Foster and Jessica Coffin. “Risky Business: Building Communication Bridges Using Unconventional Means.” Contributed Papers, SLA Conference, Seattle, WA (June 2008).
• Reynolds, Leslie, Sheila R. Curl, Brent Mai and Alexius E. Smith. “Righting the Wrongs: Mistakes Made in the Virtual Classroom.” Proceedings of the American Society Engineering Education Annual Conference, Engineering Libraries Division, St. Louis, MO (June 19-21, 2000).  (Nominated for Best Paper by the Engineering Libraries Division)

Book Chapters

• Reynolds, Leslie J. “Management Science/Operations Research.” Resources for College Libraries. Bowker. (Available at http://www.RCLweb.net on September 29, 2006; scheduled print release was November 2006).
• Missner, Emily and Leslie J. Reynolds. “Operations Management / Operations Research Web Sites.” in The Core Business Web: A Guide to Key Information Resources edited by Gary W. White, 2003.
• Reynolds, Leslie. “Model for a Web-Based Information Literacy Course: Design, Conversion and Experiences.” in Engineering Libraries: Building Collections and Delivering Services edited by Thomas W. Conkling and Linda R. Musser, 2001.