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Elizabeth A.M. Howard |
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My Work as Library Director focuses on growing, managing, and leading the Eunice and James L. West Library. This includes overseeing budgeting, staff management, collection development, information technology, and strategic planning to meet the academic and research needs of the students, faculty, and staff. I also collaborate with university stakeholders and promote library resources and services. I formally and informally promote the university to the community, city, regional, state, and national functions, representing the library to various constituencies.
TLA President 2024-2025. My mission is to support library workers across the state, amplify their voices, and support them as they provide their community with the best resources and services.
A library liaison is a library faculty member who is officially designated as the key point of contact between the library and a specific academic unit, which could be a school, department, or center. The liaison also serves as an “ambassador” for the Library to the unit, promoting the Library’s resources, services, and events, and advocating for support of the Library’s needs.
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Elizabeth A. M. Howard grew up in Fort Worth and attended FWISD public schools. She graduated from the University of North Texas, where she received her MLS. She has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona with an emphasis in Near Eastern Archaeology. She works as the Director of Eunice & James L. West Library and is a Rams First Mentor to students at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas. She is active in state and national library associations and is currently President-Elect of the Texas Library Association. Elizabeth is also an active community member on local boards and civic committees. She has served as a member of the Far Southwest Library Art Project Core Team Committee, Secretary of Troop 50 BSA, and a member of the Tarrant County College Library Technician Advisory Committee. Elizabeth has three children, a dog, and a very supportive husband. You can often find her hosting board game events or Geocaching.
