FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish serves as the Assessment Librarian for Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Libraries and has a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University with an area of emphasis in organizational behavior. Her dissertation research investigated the impact of leadership behavior on organizational commitment and perceptions of job autonomy of information services librarians. Before completing her dissertation, she published two articles on stress and burnout with her dissertation chair, Dr. Ronald Blazek. She has been serving as the Assessment Librarian for the FAU Libraries since 2009, after originally being hired as the Business Librarian and Libraries’ academic liaison to the FAU College of Business.
- Ph.D. Library and Information Studies, Florida State University
- M.A. Library and Information Science, University of South Florida
- B.A. Spanish (Other areas of emphasis: Mathematics and Russian), Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey
- Servant leadership
- Data visualization
- Assessment
- Clunie, Simone and Darlene Ann Parrish. “Servant Leadership in the Periodical Literature of Librarianship” [Poster presentation]. CILIP Ireland/LAI Joint Conference, Newry, Northern Ireland, April 24 and 25, 2024.
- Parrish, Darlene Ann, and Simone Clunie. “Dashboards: Are They a Useful Tool and Help to Show Value or Just a Passing Fad?” [Poster presentation]. 2022 SEFLIN Annual Conference: Libraries in Communities, Florida International University, North Miami, July 28, 2022.
- Clunie, Simone and Darlene Ann Parrish. “How Assessment Websites of Academic Libraries Convey Information and Show Value.” Performance Measurement and Metrics 19(3). (2018): 203-212.
- Parrish, Darlene Ann and Simone Clunie. “How Assessment Websites of Academic Libraries Convey Information and Show Value.” [Lightening paper]. The 12th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries (LibPMC), University of Oxford, United Kingdom, July 31, 2017.
