Dean Rader's Biography
Professor
Hannelore B. Rader (BA, MA, MLS, Specialist in Higher
Ed)
Hannelore B. Rader, has been Dean of the University
Libraries at the University of Louisville in Kentucky
since January 1997.
Dean Rader has more than 35 years of library, administrative and teaching experience in higher education in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Kentucky. Her background includes prominent leadership in international, national and regional user instruction and information literacy activities. She has served on national and international committees dealing with information literacy and academic library issues. She has presented many workshops nationally and internationally and has more than 100 publications related to information literacy and library administrative issues.
As part of her administrative responsibilities Dean Rader has been involved in various marketing and recruitment efforts as well as national efforts to diversity the library profession.
Ms Rader has a teaching certificate, master degrees in library science and in German literature from the University of Michigan as well as a specialist degree in educational leadership from Eastern Michigan University. She has taught library and information skills in undergraduate and graduate settings and in schools of library and information science. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science.
She has received numerous honors, among them are
- Distinguished Alumni of the University of Michigan School of Information
- Walter H. Kaiser Memorial Award from the Michigan Library Association
- ACRL/EBSS Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Award
- ACRL - Mimi Dudley Award for Bibliographic Instruction
- ARCL Academic and Research Librarian of the Year in 1999
- Literati Award for Best Article from MCB Press, London, April, 2000
Ms Rader is a native of Berlin, Germany. She and her parents escaped from formerly East Germany and immigrated to the United States via Brazil in the 1950s.