Finalists for the position of dean of University Libraries at UNM have been named and their campus visits scheduled, announced search committee chair Viola Florez, dean, UNM College of Education. A forum for Bedard is scheduled, while the forums for Wilder, Wastawy and Walters have yet to be set.
Martha Bedard, associate dean, Information and Collection Services, Texas A&M University Libraries, will be on campus Thursday and Friday, March 1-2. A forum with her is set for Thursday, March 1 from 9-10:15 a.m. in the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library’s west wing.
Bedard has been at Texas A&M since 2000. She has been in her current position since January. Prior, she served as associate dean and director of the University’s Medical Sciences Library. In 2002-03, she served as associate dean for Digital Initiatives and from 2003-06, she was associate dean for Advanced Studies. She earned her M.S. in 1980 from the Simmons Graduate School of Library Science in Boston.
Stanley Wilder, associate dean, River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, N.Y, will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, March 19-20. At the University of Rochester, Wilder also served as assistant dean, Information Management Services from 1999-02. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago where his emphasis was on MIS and human resources. He earned his master’s in library information sciences from Columbia University.
Sohair Wastawy, has served as chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt, since 2004. She will be on campus Thursday and Friday, March 22-23. Wastawy earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Cairo University before earning a master’s in library and information science from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; and a doctor of arts in library and information management from Simmons College, N.Y.
Tyler Walters, associate director for Technology and Resource Services at Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center, will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, March 26-27. Walters has been in his current position since 2002. He earned his master’s in library and information science from the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona; and a master’s in archival management from the department of history, North Carolina State University.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
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