What Every Library Director Should Know

Dr. Susan Carol Curzon is the dean emeritus of the University Library of California State University, Northridge. Previous positions include director of libraries for the City of Glendale, California, and regional administrator for the County of Los Angeles Public Library. She also has experience in a corporate library. She also has taught library administration and public administration courses. She was Library Journal’s “Librarian of the Year.” Library management, disaster management and information literacy have been the primary topics of her numerous speeches and articles. She is the author of Managing the Interview and Managing Change and the co-editor of Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program. Dr. Curzon continues to provide consulting services for libraries, for universities and for municipalities on strategic management, disaster recovery, and building planning.