The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced four finalists in the search for the campus’ next director of university libraries Wednesday.
John Culshaw, professor and senior associate dean of libraries? at the? University of Colorado-Boulder; Jeffrey Garrett, associate university librarian for special libraries and director of special collections and archives at the Northwestern University Library; Mary-Jo Romaniuk, recent acting chief librarian at the University of Alberta in Edmonton; and Ed Van Gemert, interim director of libraries for the General Library System at UW–Madison were the candidates chosen by the 14-member search committee, which was chaired by classics professor William Aylward.
According to Aylward, the Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian position is “a key individual for stewardship of knowledge across the campus disciplines.”
Each candidate will visit campus in the coming months to present themselves to the community and answer questions.
Aylward said he encourages the campus community to take advantage of the opportunity to give input on a position that will “[steer] the university libraries and all of our resources for knowledge and learning and scholarship...into the next decade and beyond.”
