Dean of Libraries Finalists Named at USU

Three finalists for Dean of Libraries at Utah State University have been announced and will be brought to campus for interviews. Campus interviews begin Oct. 11-12 and continue Oct. 23-24 and Oct. 30-31. The three finalists include Anne E. Langley, Richard W. Clement and Gregg E. Sapp.

Each candidate will be available at a 90-minute open forum on the first day of their campus visit. The candidates will begin the forums with brief comments, then open the session to questions.

 

Brief overviews of the finalists follow.

 

Anne E. Langley is coordinator of public services assessment and chemistry librarian at Duke University and adjunct professor of chemistry. She completed an undergraduate degree in English and creative writing, with a minor in German, at Georgia State University. She holds a master’s degree in library science in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Tennessee. In addition to her nearly decade at Duke University, she has held librarian positions at North Carolina State University (in physical, mathematical and textiles sciences and in engineering) and at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of two books and numerous articles. Her most recent book, Building Bridges: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Academic Library, was published in 2006 by Chandos Publishing. She has served as a consultant for a variety of information science and library projects, including a statewide community college assessment project. She has served as an expert witness in chemical patent court cases. She serves as chair of the science, technology and medicine collections working group of the Triangle Research Libraries Network and is a key partner in the association’s pilot project for single-copy storage for STM journals.

 

 

Richard W. Clement is head of the department of special collections at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. He completed his undergraduate degree in history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a master’s degree in English at the same institution. He earned a second master’s degree in library science from the University of Chicago. In addition to his more than 20 years at the University of Kansas, he held faculty and librarian positions at Illinois State University, the University of Chicago, the University of Alabama and Emporia State University. He was a Fulbright Educational Partnership Fellow in Peru in 2004 and received the Gretchen and Gene A. Budig Distinguished Librarian Award from the University of Kansas in 2003. He is the author of seven books and more than 40 scholarly articles. His most recent book, Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1768-1875, was published in 2003 by University Press of New England and the Library of Congress. He is the founding president of the Mediterranean Studies Association and is co-editor of the journal Mediterranean Studies published by Manchester University Press.

 

 

Gregg E. Sapp is head of the Science Library at the University at Albany in the State University of New York system. He completed an undergraduate degree in liberal studies at Western Washington University, a master’s degree in library science at the University of Washington (Seattle) and a second master’s degree in adult, higher and communication education with an emphasis in adult science education at Montana State University. In addition to his seven years at the University at Albany, he has held librarian positions at the University of Miami (Florida), Montana State University and Idaho State University. He is the author of four books and numerous professional articles. His most recent book, A Brief History of the Future of Libraries, was published by Scarecrow Press in 2002. He is past chair of the Systems and Service Section of the Library Administration and Management Association and has served in leadership positions with the Idaho Library Association, the Montana Library Association, the South East Florida Library and Information Network, the Florida Library Association and the Capital District (N.Y.) Library Association. He is working on an edited anthology, ChangeMasters, for the Library Administration and Management Association, as well as on his annual Library Journal review article “The Best Sci-Tech Books for General Readers.”

 

 

For more information about the candidates, contact Vice Provost Larry Smith at (435) 797-0718.

 

Contact: Provost Office