Valerie Horton

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States

Director at Minitex

Education

The new books from ALA Editions is finally out. Check it out at: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11138 I've been the director of the Minitex Library Network based at the University of Minneapolis since 2012. Prior to that I was the Executive Director of the Colorado Library Consortium from 2004 to 2012. Through most of my career, I have specialized in management issues for libraries and consortia - planning, hiring, cooperative initiatives, budgeting, innovation, technology, etc. Recently, I have been focusing on physical delivery of library materials. I co-chaired the NISO working group on physical delivery recommended practices, and I manage the Moving Mountains Project...