Staff Biography

Lydia W. Wasylenko

Librarian for Economics, History, Classical Languages & Literature, Germanic Languages & Literature, Slavic Languages & Literature
Research, Collections & Scholarly Communication
Bird Library

315.443.4692
lwwasyle@syr.edu

Subject Areas

Classical Languages and Literature, Economics, German Language and Literature, History, Russian Language and Literature

Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (Graduated with program honors; elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, National Scholastic Honor Society in Business and Administration.)

Master of Library Science (MLS) from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. (Elected to Beta Phi Mu, International Library Science Honor Society.)

Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Russian and German Area Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University, New York, NY. (Graduated magna cum laude and with departmental honors; elected to Phi Beta Kappa.)

Over the course of her career, Lydia Wasylenko has held a variety of positions in academic and association libraries, including Wollman Library of Barnard College, the library of Laubach Literacy, Inc., Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the American Philatelic Research Library, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, and the Research Working Collection of Penn State’s College of Business Administration. She has worked as a library technician, catalog librarian, technical services supervisor, head of a catalog and collection maintenance department, reference librarian, and head of a business research library.

Scholarly and Professional Activities

Publications

Lydia Wasylenko’s publications reflect her areas of expertise and interest. Selected articles and reviews:

Library technical services and collections:

Wasylenko, L.W. (1999). Building Quality That Counts Into Your Cataloging Operation (report on an Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Cataloging and Classification Section, Catalog Management Discussion Group program at the American Library Association’s 1998 Annual Conference). Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, 23(1), 101-104.

Wasylenko, L.W. (1999). Optimizing End-User Access to Aggregations of Full-Text E-Journals (report on an Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Cataloging and Classification Section, Catalog Management Discussion Group program at the American Library Association’s 1999 Midwinter Meeting). Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, 23(3), 372-374.

Area studies librarianship:

Wasylenko, L.W. (1996). Librarians Riding the Bear: Keeping Pace with Russian Publishing (report on an Association of College and Research Libraries, Slavic and East European Section program at the American Library Association’s 1995 Annual Conference). Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, 20(2), 201-203.

Wasylenko, L.W. (2004). Syracuse University Library (in A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada, a special issue of Slavic & East European Information Resources, edited by Allan Urbanic and Beth Feinberg). Slavic & East European Information Resources, 5(3/4), 96-99.

Library management, personnel administration, and organization development:

Wasylenko, L.W. (1983). Organization Development in a Library Setting: A Case Study. Journal of Library Administration, 4(2), 23-42.

Book reviews:

Wasylenko, L.W. (1986-1994). [25 book reviews]. American Reference Books Annual, 17-25.
Wasylenko, L.W. (2006). [book review]. Kohut, Z.E., Nebesio, B.Y. & Yurkevich, M. (2005). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Slavic & East European Information Resources, 7(4), 150-152.

Other Scholarly and Professional Activities

American Library Association (ALA):

Lydia has served on many committees within divisions of the ALA, including the Catalog Form and Function Committee of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Within ALA’s College and Research Libraries (ACRL) division, Lydia has been a member of the division-level Professional Education Committee; the University Libraries Section (ULS) Communications Committee; and the Slavic and Eastern European Section (SEES) Executive Committee, Nominating Committee (Chair), Conference Program Planning Committee, Automated Bibliographic Control Committee, Continuing Education Committee, and Electronic Resources Committee.

Beta Phi Mu, the International Library Science Honor Society:

Over the course of a ten-year stint on the Executive Board of the Pi Lambda Sigma (Syracuse University) Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, Lydia served as Chair of the Scholarship Committee and held four different officer positions, including President.

University and Community Service

In 2010, Lydia began a two-year term as one of four Senators representing the librarian constituency in the Syracuse University Senate. In past years, she has been chair of three university-level committees at Syracuse University: the University Affirmative Action Grievance Committee, the Syracuse University Senate Committee on Affirmative Action/Diversity, and the Syracuse University Senate Committee on Student Affairs.
Lydia has also served as the Syracuse University Library representative on the Legislative Committee of the Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC).
From 2005 to 2011, Lydia was a Trustee of the DeWitt (NY) Community Library. She completed a two-year term as Board Secretary (2007-2009); chaired the Nominating Committee (2009-2010); and, over the years, served on the Bylaws, Facilities, Fund-Raising, and Strategic Planning Committees. She continues to serve on the Strategic Planning Committee as a community representative.