Simmons College

Danuta A. Nitecki has been a library manager or administrator since she began her career as an academic librarian in 1972. Since 1996, Nitecki has been Associate University Librarian, Yale University Library, where she currently provides administrative oversight of public service programs [e.g. reference, instruction, circulation, and document delivery] for the library system, as well as direct supervisory support of directors of several library departments. Prior to coming to Yale, she has held administrative positions in the libraries at the University of Maryland at College Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Since 2001 she has served as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library & Information Sciences Department, teaching Research Methods, a required course, four times. For the Association of Research Libraries, she also designed the content and collaborated on development of presentation of a WebCt-based online 6-week course for its Online Lyceum; she also co-facilitated eleven sessions of this popular professional development opportunity, "Measuring Service Quality in Libraries," reaching nearly 200 librarians and staff. She is editor of Advances in Librarianship and has individually or with a colleague, worked on four volumes of this series. She has served on publication boards, including the Editorial Board of Journal of Academic Librarianship. She holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science, [University of Maryland 1995], and Master of Science degrees in Library and Information Sciences [Drexel University 1972], and Communications [University of Tennessee at Knoxville 1976].