SUSAN CAROL CURZON

Sue Curzon is Dean of the University Library for California State University, Northridge--a position she has held since 1992. The Library serves a comprehensive, urban university with a student enrollment of 36,000. The Library is technologically very sophisticated with many electronic resources and services including the nation's first AS/RS--automated storage & retrieval system. The Library has over 1.3 million volumes.

From 1993 to 1998, Sue was also responsible for information technology on campus including the administrative systems, the voice, video and data network and academic technology support. Sue also has experience in both public and corporate libraries.

Sue's Ph.D. is in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. Her Master's in Librarianship is from the University of Washington. Sue was Library Journal's "Librarian of the Year" in 1993, a nationally recognized award.

Sue is the author of the books entitled, "Managing the Interview" and "Managing Change," and co-editor of "Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program," all published by Neal Schuman. Sue has also made many speeches and written articles on various subjects including the management of libraries, libraries of the future, disaster restoration and information literacy.

From 1995-2002, Sue was the Chair of California State University's Information Competence Committee which developed an information literacy program at all 23 campuses. She recently led the system-wide effort to develop a CSU Virtual Library to provide universal access to all students and faculty.