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Since 2018 I have been Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication at Concordia University and Director of Concordia University Press. My primary duties are to scholarly communication writ large including digital preservation; copyright; open educational resources; the university's institutional repository; publishing; and, until January 2023, interlibrary loans. As Director of Concordia University Press, I am responsible for the operations and editorial program of a non-profit publisher of peer-reviewed books that cross disciplinary boundaries and propel scholarship into new areas. Within the Concordia Library, I have also held the positions of Scholarly Communications Librarian (2014-18) and Collections Coordinator (2010-14). Before coming to Montreal, I was Communications Coordinator at the Yale University Library (2007-10) where I managed outreach and public affairs and contributed to the Library's instruction, collection development, and advancement programs.

My research interests are varied and I have published articles or chapters on Florence Nightingale's childhood library; newsprint production and consumption in North America in the first half of the twentieth century; philanthropic library programs during the Great Depression; education for French Canadian librarians before 1960; the history of publishing and electronic books, and collection development in academic libraries. My work has appeared in American Periodicals, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Information & Culture, Oxford Companion to the Book, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, among other venues. In 2022-23 I was the Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellow in Bibliography and Book History at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Scholar at Massey College. In 2020 I was awarded the Bibliographical Society of Canada's Bernard Amtmann Fellowship. Earlier in my career I was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Academic Librarianship and editor of its Managing Technology section.

I have an Honours BA (with distinction) in History and an MISt from the University of Toronto, as well as an MA in History from Concordia. For several years (2014-18) I taught a graduate course on the history of books and printing at McGill University's School of Information Studies. I have been active in the Bibliographical Society of Canada and the Association of University Presses and I am a member of the American Printing History Association; the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP); the Elizabethan Club of Yale University; and the Grolier Club. 

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