Julie Todaro Author

Dr. Julie Todaro is the dean of Austin Community College (ACC) Library Services. Her professional career includes academic library manager; library educator (management, public libraries,) and public librarian. As the ACC, she manages 200 employees who provide library resources and services throughout eleven campus libraries in 8 counties.

Todaro is the author of the 2020 2^nd edition of Emergency Preparedness for Libraries, the 2015 Mentoring A-Z, and the 2014 Library Management for the Digital Age: A New Paradigm. She co-authored the 2006 Training Library Staff and Volunteers to Provide Extraordinary Customer Service. Todaro is frequent presenter on a variety of topics and across all types of libraries, library settings and non-profit management, including three 2020 national webinars on libraries and the pandemic. She is a library consultant and in her practice serves as an advisor and project lead with expertise in all aspects of management, leadership, library facilities and operations.

Todaro’s association activities and leadership focus on all types of libraries and librarians. On the national leadership level Julie was the 2016-2017 president of the American Library Association (ALA) with an initiative focus on librarians titled Libraries Transform: the Expert in the Library and was the 2007-2008 past-president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL.) On the state leadership level, Julie was the 2000-2001 president of the Texas Library Association (TLA).

Todaro earned her DLS from Columbia University’s School of Library Service, a MLS from The University of Texas at Austin ISchool (with a school librarian all-level lifetime certification). She was TLA’s 1996 Librarian of the Year award-winner, received TLA’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and recently was awarded TLA’s 2019 Distinguished Service Award.