{"id":56775,"date":"2020-10-22T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=56775"},"modified":"2020-10-22T08:08:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:08:59","slug":"forsyth-library-dean-to-begin-phased-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=56775","title":{"rendered":"Forsyth Library dean to begin phased retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After six transformational years, Forsyth Library Dean Deborah Ludwig will be stepping down at the end of November, assuming new special project duties as she transitions to full retirement in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ludwig\u2019s\ndistinguished career includes several stops at Fort Hays State University. She\nserved as the catalog librarian at Forsyth Library from 1988-90 when the first\nonline library catalog, TopCat, was implemented. Between her FHSU appointments,\nshe held technology and library leadership positions with the Kansas City,\nKansas Public Library, Johnson County Community College, and the University of\nKansas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During\nher most recent tenure at FHSU, Ludwig was instrumental in advancing university\npriorities. She co-chaired the committee that developed FHSU\u2019s five-year\nstrategic plan from 2017-19.&nbsp; She also chaired search committees for the\nprovost, dean of the Robbins College of Business and Entrepreneurship, and\ndirector of Teaching Innovation and Learning Technologies (TILT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ludwig\nis responsible for several immensely successful initiatives that reshaped and\nrepositioned the Forsyth Library as a research and learning hub and realigned the\nlibrary\u2019s mission to support the academic success of university faculty and\nstudents. Under her leadership, the 53-year old library was transformed into a\ntrue \u201clearning commons\u201d with group and individual study spaces, enhanced\ncomputer workstations, and a self-service video production lab. An old\nreference desk was replaced by an online model that allows students to connect\nto a librarian, whether studying on campus or online. Two prominent exhibit\nspaces now showcase unique and historical artifacts from Special Collections\nand Archives. New meeting rooms and a large presentation\/classroom space in the\nsouth study area have become a hub for social, civic and professional\nengagement events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ludwig\nalso elevated the library\u2019s collections and services to reflect the\nuniversity\u2019s mission of providing an accessible and affordable education. As an\nadvocate of open educational resources (OER), she shepherded several OER\ninitiatives at the university. She helped establish two FHSU grant programs,\nwhich encourage faculty to create or adopt openly licensed materials for their\ncourses, saving students thousands of dollars in textbook costs. Forsyth\nLibrary launched the FHSU Scholars Repository in 2016, providing a place to\ncollect, preserve and openly share faculty and student research, making\nscholarly and creative works discoverable and accessible worldwide. The\nrepository is now home to a growing collection of the university\u2019s intellectual\noutput, including several peer-reviewed journals, master\u2019s theses, OERs, and\ndigitized collections from the University Archives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research\nservices have also grown significantly under Ludwig\u2019s leadership, with\nlibrarians integrating information literacy instruction into courses and\nexponential growth for the \u201cAsk A Librarian\u201d research help service, which\nanswers hundreds of one-on-one questions each year. To recognize students who\ndemonstrate outstanding undergraduate research and honor a long-time librarian,\nLudwig established the Lynn Haggard Undergraduate Library Research Award in\n2019 to honor students who demonstrate sophisticated information literacy and\nlibrary research skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Ludwig delayed her planned 2020 phased retirement to reconfigure and deliver library services designed to meet the research needs of the FHSU community while prioritizing the health and safety of patrons and employees.  Ludwig\u2019s contributions to the transformation of the Forsyth Library will be felt long after her retirement. With an extensive renovation on the horizon, the library is positioned to become the dynamic center of teaching, learning, research and engagement that she envisioned when she returned to FHSU six years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS After six transformational years, Forsyth Library Dean Deborah Ludwig will be stepping down at the end of November, assuming new special project&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ludwig_Deb.jpg?fit=2091%2C2927","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56777,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56775\/revisions\/56777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}