Vivica Pierre
Vivica D. Smith Pierre is an academic researcher and librarian. For the past 20 years, Dr. Pierre has worked as an academic librarian. She has contributed to the building and renovation of libraries at South Louisiana Community College, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Bunker Hill Community College, and at Broward College. Prior to that Dr. Pierre served on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach. She earned her B.A. in Arts, Economics, and English from Spelman College, her M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University, and her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Research from LSU. Pierre also earned the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in agriculture and health sciences from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her research interest are Distance education, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Designing Libraries, and the Role of Academic Libraries on Student Experience and Student Success.
Professional History
Dec 2020 - Present
Associate Dean, Library Services -
Broward College Libraries
As Associate Dean, Library Services. I play a key role in working alongside the Dean of Libraries and Academic Success Centers, other associate deans, and faculty librarians and staff collegewide and online.
Leads the University/College Library (U/CL) operations of Library Service departments available to Broward College (BC) and Florida Atlantic University (FAU) students, staff, and faculty. This position also supervises the full time and part time Broward College library faculty and staff assigned to other college locations. Implements and develops policies and procedures for areas including, but not limited to: Reference (college wide), Circulation, Course Reserves (college wide), Periodicals, Interlibrary Loan, Collection Development (college wide), and Library Instruction (college wide) and Lib Chat and Ask A Librarian online reference services.
Jun 2012 - Jun 2020
Director, Library and Learning Commons -
Bunker Hill Community College
As Director of the Library, I performed educational management of a department/unit, budgeting, staffing, supervising, facilities management of all library spaces and more.
Performed research, archiving, and curating including: art and community and local history through information literacy and visual literacy instruction,
Coordinated outreach events, faculty collaborations, art programming and designing scholarly learning and creative environments.
Instruct, design, and facilitate collaborative spaces and faculty workshops.
Collaboration with event planning leaders to integrate art programming for college library events, exhibitions, and special collections.
Provided faculty and student support for research, as well as provide subject librarianship.
Served on search committees chairs, deans, associate provosts, president, and library faculty appointments.
Nov 2004 - Feb 2012
Manager, Records Management Services and Reference Librarian -
University of Louisiana Lafayette, Archives and Special Collections Department
Write, edit, and design scholarly articles, multimedia projects and websites
Curriculum Design
Entertainment
Planned Eventsbook exhibits, art exhibitions, online collections, and maintained digital repository
Conferred with other administrators to assure compliance with policies, procedures, and practices of programs including archives and records managment