Search Committee for Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian
SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ is conducting a search for the next Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian. A search committee, which includes faculty, students, staff and a member of the SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Library Board of Governors, is undertaking the search. The committee has engaged WittKieffer to support the search.
Members of the Northwestern community are invited to share input on the search and nominations for the next leader of the SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Libraries by:
- Completing this brief
- Attending a listening session (register via the following links):
- Friday, Oct. 23, 9-9:45 a.m.,
- Friday, Oct. 23, 3-3:45 p.m.,
- Additional listening sessions will be held for SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Libraries faculty and staff, who will receive sign-up invitations separately
- Emailing UniversityLibrarianSearch@northwestern.edu
News
- : Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian search committee seeks community input
- Search committee formed to find new Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian
- : Xuemao Wang to step down as University Librarian after the 2026-27 academic year
SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Librarian Search Committee
- Laura Brueck (Chair), Professor of South Asian and Comparative Literature and Director, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Megan Paynter Anderson, SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Libraries Board of Governors, Bienen School of Music Advisory Board, and SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Women’s Board Member; School of Education and Social Policy Alumna, Class of 1976; Deering Family Award Recipient (2023)
- Ryan Dohoney, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Musicology, Bienen School of Music
- Clara Drummond, Director of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives, SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Libraries
- Jeff Eden, Associate Professor of History, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Susannah Gottlieb, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Director, Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and Cluster, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Peri Green, PhD Candidate in Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy; Presidential Fellow
- Michelle Guittar, Director of Learning and Engagement and Librarian for Latin American and Latina/o Studies, SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Libraries
- Jackie Milhans, Director of Research Computing and Data, SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Information Technology
- David Morton, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Kelsey Rydland, Director of Operations, Academic Innovation, SM¾µäºÏ¼¯ Libraries
- Juniper Shelley, Undergraduate Student, Class of 2027, School of Education and Social Policy
- Charles F. Whitaker, Dean and Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Committee staff
- Lorraine Cassis, Program Administrator
- Roma Khanna, Associate Provost for Strategy and Policy
- Andrianna Kurzenberger, Associate Director for Strategy and Policy
- Tori Saxum, Assistant Director for Strategy and Policy