Senior Head for Collections and Services
Director of West Campus and Policy Sciences & Economics Libraries and Associate Professor

Professional Responsibilities

• Coordinates with Heads of Reference, Instruction, and Liaison services and Cushing Library 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.
• Directs the activities and programs of the West Campus Business Library and the Policy Sciences and Economics Library and provides administrative oversight and support for the faculty and staff at WCL, PSEL and the Map room
• Discipline Chair for Business, Policy Sciences, and Economics
  

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
  
• Business and Finance Division
  Past-Chair, Centers of Excellence Awards
• Information Technology Division
  b/ITe Bulletin Editor
• Leadership and Management Division
• Texas Chapter
  President
  

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

• 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.