DEE MAGNONI !

6 Bosque Azul Work: 505-667-2340 dmagnoni@lanl.gov Santa Fe, NM 87507 Mobile: 339-225-0536 dee6122nd@gmail.com

!Competencies Document

•! Real world experience and innovative thinking o! Comfort with risk: 2 library start-ups and business owner. o! More than twenty-four years experience in academic, corporate, and government settings. o! Personal philosophy and practices influenced by TRIZ thinking; Robert D. Putnam’s Better

Together initiatives; charrette processes; scenario planning; and servant leadership. •! Leadership and vision

o! Lead and manage 30-person organization with $10 million budget serving 10,000 scientists, engineers, students and staff. Successfully transitioned to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from Olin College where I lead and managed a 3-person organization and an approximate $2 million budget serving 35 faculty members and 350 students.

o! Convene Library Advisory Board made up of researchers, scientists and engineers from across the Lab.

o! 2017 President, Special Libraries Association (SLA), an international organization with members in over 75 countries.

o! Created 2017 – 2019 Strategic Plan for Los Alamos Research Library, using community process that engaged stakeholders and staff. Roadmap development is now in process. Also created vision and strategic plan for Olin College library.

o! Achieve success in goals across broad range of work environments, from open & innovative (Olin, Wieden + Kennedy) to highly structured (LANL).

•! Collaboration and partnerships o! Collaborate with CIO’s office at LANL through membership on classified review board as well as

testing potential digital Lab tools within Research Library. o! Partner with Los Alamos Tech Transfer center to connect content elements of research throughout

lifecycle, from ideas in lab books through publications and patents. o! Designed, planned and implemented an Ebook Summit at Olin College, bringing together

computer programmers, designers, publishers, faculty, students and librarians to discuss technical, tenure, design and access issues surrounding electronic books in academia.

o! Visited and benchmarked existing academic consortia to inform creation and strengthening of Babson-Olin-Wellesley consortium. Consortia included Claremont Colleges, Five Colleges (western MA), Tri-College (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore) and Colby-Bates-Bowdoin.

•! Digital library innovation o! Building internal partnerships and workflows to communicate LANL research to a public audience

through creation of abstracts written in layperson language then addition of abstracts to the institutional repository.

o! Drove creation of first publicly accessible Department of Energy research lab institutional repository at LANL.

o! Researched strategy for institutional repository at Olin College, balancing staff capabilities against budget. Chose product and implemented with vendor, faculty and staff.

o! Researched and implemented solutions to faculty research and metrics challenges at Olin College. Provided full access to library databases from any location at any time.

o! Evaluated a range of discovery and federated search products at Olin College. Oversaw implementation of product with vendor, library & IT staff.

•! Commitment to diversity and development o! Created Diversity and Inclusion Task Force for SLA to take on 2017 study of role and place of

diversity in association and profession. What are the current needs? What role can the association play? Where can we have an impact? Created and led Inclusion Caucus within SLA focused on speakers at conferences, resource materials and mentoring.

o! Strong international perspective gained through speaking engagements, participation in SLA and IATUL.

o! Directed competency development for LANL Research Library. Competency tool allows staff to plan professional development, team leaders to select members based on skills, and leadership to identify gaps in staff expertise. Co-author of SLA’s Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century, Revised edition.

o! Led multiple mentoring initiatives in SLA, was awarded SLA Rose L. Vormelker Award for “beyond exceptional services in area of mentoring students and/or working professionals.”

•! Scholarly communications o! Drive services and tools development with the philosophy of building the research carrot rather

than wielding the mandate stick. o! Member, National Science Communication Institute (nSCI) board and Member, Open Scholarship

Initiative (OSI) planning team. o! Scholarly communications speaker at library conferences and publisher meetings. o! Spearheaded creation and successful adoption of Open Access policies, LANL and Olin College.

With policies in place, facilitated membership to Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) at both institutions.

o! Co-created personas for data management requirements, LANL. •! Student experience

o! Collaborate on LANL student initiatives including helping students and Post Docs understand their research impact.

o! Served diverse student communities, from largely first generation college students at Utica College to elite technical students at RPI, Olin College and LANL to MBA and business students at MIT Sloan.

o! Conceived, planned and oversaw creation of special collections at Olin College including materials samples, hand tools and realia or learning objects. Inspired by multiple intelligences and hands-on learning, each of these collections were unique in academic engineering libraries when conceived.

o! Partnered with Credo Reference to deliver pedagogy talk at International Association of University Libraries (IATUL; was International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries) conference in South Africa.

o! Developed and co-taught, with students, a holistic information literacy and study skills co-curricular called Lifehacks at Olin College that included segments on listening, statistics & analysis, speed-reading, sleep & relaxation as well as traditional research skills.

o! A PI on three grants at Olin College addressing complex conversations, sustainability collections and a tri-college resource platform.

o! Created multimedia instruction module at RPI. •! Commitment to building a better community

o! Support of community organizations in Santa Fe: Cooking With Kids, ARTsmart, Women’s International Study Center.

o! Co-PI on grant, Just Business: Moral Responsibility in a Global Economy. o! Co-organizer on Needham, MA Summit on Energy and the Environment. o! Member, Natick, MA Recycling Committee. o! City Club of Portland, Member, research committee on Community Policing.

!