Faculty Biography
Vitals:
Name: Rhonna A. Goodman, MLS, MS.
Title: Director, Manhattanville College Library
Department: Library
Building: Library
Room: 115
Phone: 914 –323-5277
Email: goodmanr@mville.edu
Degrees:
MS Manhattanville College, Leadership and Strategic Management
MLS Pratt Institute, Library and Information Science
BA Boston University, Political Science
Rhonna A. Goodman is the Director of the Library. She also teaches Information Literacy for undergraduates and Fundraising in the Graduate School. Before coming to Manhattanville, she was the Library Director of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Assistant Coordinator of Programs and Services for the Metropolitan New York Library Council, and she worked for the New York Public Library in a variety of positions. She is a past-president of the New York Library Association and WALDO (the Westchester Library Academic Directors Organization.) She is on the Board of the New York State Higher Education Initiative and New Yorkers for Better Libraries PAC. She has also chaired many committees for the American Library Association. She has published articles on administration of academic libraries, cooperative collection development, and teenage reading. She has frequently spoken at library meetings and conferences.