Simmons College

Pat Hawthorne is currently the Director of Library Human Resources for the University of California at Los Angeles Library and is responsible for all aspects of human resources including recruitment and employment, employee and labor relations, and learning and development. Her library career began in 1988 as a Government Information and Social Sciences Reference Librarian at Louisiana State University Libraries in Baton Rouge. Prior to working in libraries, she was a journalist and public relations specialist. Hawthorne holds a Master of Arts in Adult & Higher Education from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and a Bachelor of Arts in English & Journalism from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette as well as certification in human resources management from the University of Miami. She is also certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In 2001, she was one of 15 library professionals selected for the UCLA Senior Fellows Program, an executive management training program for research library administrators. In 2002, she co-chaired an ACRL ad hoc task force with George Bynon of UC Davis that produced a white paper entitled Recruitment, Retention & Restructuring: Human Resources in Academic Libraries. She is also the co-author of Planning Additions to Academic Library Buildings: A Seamless Approach (with Ron G. Martin) and Librarian Job Descriptions in ARL Libraries (with Tom H. Ray).