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Larry Nash White, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, ALA Coordinator, Department of Library Science, East Carolina University

1000 E. 10th Street, Mail Stop 172, Room 102 Umstead Building, East Carolina University, Greenville. NC 27858

Phone: 252.328.2315 Fax: 252-328-4368 Email: whitel@ecu.edu

Office Hours: T/W/TH - 1-5pm Virtual Office Hours: M-F - 9am - 8pm

Education, Experience, & Service
  • Education
  • Experience
    • General Experience
      • Experience working in a public service environment since 1980.
      • Experience in supervising people, projects, and operations since 1981.
      • 8 years of retail / management experience prior to library career.
    • Professional librarian since 1993. Experienced in academic, public (rural and urban, county systems), special, and State libraries.
    • Leadership Philosophy - (Word Doc)
    • Mantra: "Passions. Dreams. Sweat."
  • Service (Cumlative record)
    • Community
      • Delta Society Therapy Dogs
    • Department (LS) / COE / University (ECU)
      • Academic Integrity Board (ECU), Admissions (LS, Chair), Centennial Committee (COE), CTE Assessment Committee (COE), Curriculum (LS), Curriclum (COE, Chair), Electronic PAD Taskforce (COE), Faculty Search Commitee Member(3),Faculty Teaching Peer Reviewer (5), Interim Co-Chair (LS), .MLS ALA Coordinator (LS), MLS Program Director (LS), OSP Social Sciences Grant Reviewer (ECU), and Special Collections Acquisitions Committee (ECU).
    • Profession (Membership and Service)
      • Membership: ALA, ALISE, ARSL, IFLA, LAMA, NCLA, NCSLMA, PLA, WILIS Advisory Board
      • Current Professional Service: LRRT Chair 2009-2010, (ALA); Administration SIG, Curriculum SIG, (ALISE); Knowledge Management / Statistics and Evalaution Sections, (IFLA); MAES Data Collection Committee, (LLAMA).
Courses Taught (Teaching Philosophy) - (Word Doc)
  • LIBS 6012 Analyzing & Synthesizing Professional Library Information: LIBS 6012 is a required, core Tier 1 course. This course is being evolved to emphasize the application of research resources and methods to library science problems.
  • LIBS 6031 Library Administration and Management: LIBS 6031 is a required core introductory/overview course in library administration and management taught each semester. Emphasis on administrative skills in assessment, communications, controlling (budgeting), directing, organizing, planning, and staffing.
  • LIBS 6550 Seminar in Public Libraries: LIBS 6550 is a required course for public library students covering multiple aspects of public libraries: history, policies, technology, alignment with community values, needs, and stakeholders.
  • LIBS 6555 Fundraising / Grantsmanship: LIBS 6555 is an elective courses for public library pathways students that covers fundraising and grant writing practices, administration, and their connections to strategic finaicial planning.
  • LIBS 6972 Research Methods in Library Science: LIBS 6972 is an elective course in research methods for library administrators and practitioners. Emphasis is on quanititative and qualitative methods, literature reviews and research proposal construction.
  • LIBS 7020 Marketing Library Services: LIBS 7020 is an elective course in the marketing of library services to global and diverse world. Students review marketing practices and identify marketing trends and needs as they apply to marketing library services, develop marketing plans
  • LIBS 7030 Financial Management of Public Library Organizations: LIBS 7030 is an elective course in the financial management of public libraries. Students study budgeting, planning, financial resource management, fundraising, and budgetary performance assessment.
Teaching Assessment
  • Dr. White's Student Online Instruction Survey results consistently average over a 6.5 overall approval rating each semester (7.00 highest possible) in all courses taught.
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Quotations from Dr. White
  • "It is a flat world with some circular thinking in spots."
  • "Its easy to find a hundred reasons why you can't do something; it's of greater benefit to find one reason why you can do something."
  • "If two people in a work situation always agree, then one of them is unnecessary.
  • "Two wrongs do not make a right, but three lefts do."
  • "If you don't like competing for customers, you will like unemployment even less."
  • "It is the competition you can't see that you have to address first.
  • "The library should be a destination on a different road everyday."
  • "Sometimes opportunity does not knock. It stands outside your door looking like work and waits for you to open it."
  • "No one ever has enough time, people or money to do what they need to do; success comes to those who do things in spite of this.

Copyrighted 2009 by Larry Nash White. All rights reserved. Last Updated on September 20, 2009.