Susan Ryan

Susan Ryan holds the first endowed dean position at Stetson - the Betty Drees Johnson Dean of the duPont-Ball Library and Learning Technologies.

Ryan leads and administers a staff of eight librarians and 15 support staff. She is responsible for library strategic planning, budgets, development and marketing. Ryan collaborates with other units on campus on issues of emerging and learning technologies. She is the curator of several high-profile special collections.

Under Ryan's direction, the library has won two competitive innovation awards for collaborative work in 3D printing. Ryan has published numerous articles on government information, library administration, library innovation and curricular collaborations. Her book on government information policy, Downloading Democracy: Government Information in an Electronic Age, was featured in W.S Hein's recommended purchase list distributed to law libraries and others in the legal profession.

Ryan is the only librarian to win the annual Stetson University Hand Award for Research. She also won the Catharine J. Reynolds Award for Excellence in the Field of Government Information, the premier annual national government information research prize. In addition, Ryan won the Bernard Fry Award for Best Article of the Year from Government Information Quarterly.

Ryan has served as a referee for three journals, has been a consulting editor and a series editor for a commercial publisher, and a column editor for the Journal of Government Information. Ryan has held a number of regional and state library leadership positions.

• Library Innovation
• Curricular Collaborations
• Government Information Policy
• Library Administration
• Library History

• Ryan, Susan M. and W. Tandy Grubbs, “Curricular Collaborations: Using Emerging Technologies to Foster Innovative Partnerships” in Doherty, Brian, ed., Technology-Centered Academic Library Partnerships and Collaborations, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016.
• Ryan, Susan M. and W. Tandy Grubbs, “Strategic Management of Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries,” Strategic Library, no. 21, October 15, 2015.
• Ryan, Susan M. and William Tandy Grubbs, “Collaboration in Support of 3D Printing as an Emerging Technology in Academic Libraries,” Florida Libraries 57, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 11-16.
• Violante, Luciano, Daniel Nunez, Susan Ryan, and William Grubbs, "3D Printing in the Chemistry Curriculum: Inspiring Millennial Students to be Creative Innovators" in Potts, G.; Dockery, C., eds., Addressing the Millennial Student: New Pedagogy and Approaches to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Undergraduate Chemistry, Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society Symposium Series, 2015. (ebook, 2014)
• Ryan, Susan M., “'An Idea Likely Too Big': John B. Stetson University's Pursuit of an Academic Carnegie Library in the Early Twentieth Century,” Library & Information History 29, no. 1 (March 2013):38-58.
• Ryan, Susan M., “Library Web Site Administration: A Strategic Planning Model for the Smaller Academic Library,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 29, no. 4 (July 2003): 207-218. [Seventh most downloaded article in 2003 out of 64 issues – more than 200 articles -- of The Journal of Academic Librarianship online.]
• Ryan, Susan M., “Square Peg in a Round Hole: Electronic Information in the Federal Depository Library Program.” Journal of Government Information 24, no. 5 (1997): 361-375. [Winner of Journal of Government Information Bernard Fry Award for Best Article of the Year. Past recipients of the Fry Award include Brian Kahin, a professor in Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government; Lewis Branscomb, noted scientist and presidential advisor, also from Harvard; and historian and political scientist Paul Magosci, University of Toronto.]
• Ryan, Susan M., Downloading Democracy: Government Information in an Electronic Age, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995. Reviewed in: Journal of Government Information 24, no. 1 (January/February 1997):77-79. Featured in: W.S. Hein's Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields, a recommended purchase list distributed to law libraries and others in the legal profession.
• Ryan, Susan M., "Beyond the Value Proposition: Identifying and Promoting Library Distinctives in Academic Libraries," Strategic Library, November 2019, 1-5.
• Ryan, Susan M. and W. Tandy Grubbs, "Library Self-Disruption: The Key to Surviving and Thriving (A Library Dean and a Professor Dialogue on Learning Technologies and Mutual Dependence," College & Research Libraries News, January 2018, 10-14.