Stepping Back into Library Administration

When I relo­cat­ed to North Car­oli­na two years ago, I had no idea what my long-term job prospects would be, so I’m very excit­ed to be step­ping back into library admin­is­tra­tion as the new Asso­ciate Dean for Learn­ing & Research at Appalachi­an State Uni­ver­si­ty Libraries. In this new­ly cre­at­ed role, I am over­see­ing a broad port­fo­lio that fits well with my back­ground, includ­ing HR process­es, the liai­son pro­gram, the Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­a­cy team, the Music Library, the Instruc­tion­al Mate­ri­als Cen­ter, and the Tech­nol­o­gy Ser­vices Division.

I’m also thrilled to share that I was grant­ed tenure and the sta­tus of full pro­fes­sor—a mean­ing­ful mile­stone for me after being non-tenure track at my pre­vi­ous insti­tu­tion. Now five months in, I feel espe­cial­ly for­tu­nate to work with a fan­tas­tic team and to be doing work that direct­ly impacts both our stu­dents and library employees.