As University Librarian and Dean I lead strategic planning, budgeting, and fundraising for the University Library, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and advancing Indigenization initiatives. I oversee six library spaces, a team of 135 faculty and staff, and am responsible for a $15M budget. In my role I champion excellence in research, teaching, and community engagement while fostering strong internal and external partnerships.
I am particularly interested in leadership development in academic libraries, and specifically, providing those who work with me with informal opportunities to apply learned skills to help move our division forward. Both my scholarship and my daily practice emphasize this non-hierarchical approach to leadership. In 2022, ACRL published my book, Developing the Next Generation of Library Leaders, which draws on the experiences of those administrators in assistant dean and similar roles to better understand their journeys into leadership positions, and the opportunities they provide the next generation to foster leadership skill development. This research feeds into my practice as a leader, and I seek opportunities for my own team to participate in leadership and management skill development, whether through on-campus trainings, readings, podcasts, or blog posts, we all have something to learn. To find out more about my research, please visit the publications page. I’ve begun to present my research as part of conference presentations, and you can visit the speaking page to learn more.