Search Committee for Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian
²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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 ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ Library Board of Governors, is undertaking the search. The committee has engaged WittKieffer to support the search.
Members of the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ community are invited to share input on the search and nominations for the next leader of the ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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 ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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
²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ Libraries Board of Governors, Bienen School of Music Advisory Board, and ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ Libraries
- Jackie Milhans, Director of Research Computing and Data, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ 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