Three candidates will visit campus for the University Libraries dean position between Oct. 25 – Nov. 7. The finalists, who were selected through a national search, will interview and give public presentations on city campus from 4-5 p.m.
The candidates, listed by presentation date, are:
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Oct. 26 — Elizabeth (Liz) Lorang, interim dean and professor in the University Libraries, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, presents in the 102 Love Library South Auditorium | Zoom
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Nov. 3 — Kimberley Bugg, associate library director, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Atlanta, Georgia), presents in the Nebraska Union Swanson Auditorium | Zoom
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Nov. 7 — Bryn Geffert, dean of libraries and professor of history, University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont), presents in the 102 Love Library South Auditorium | Zoom
Additional candidate information, including curricula vitae and candidate evaluation forms, is available on the University Libraries dean search website: go.unl.edu/librarydean.
Liz Lorang
Elizabeth (Liz) Lorang interviews Oct. 25-26. Lorang is interim dean and professor in the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She strives to empower individuals and communities to create new meaning, new opportunity, and new futures by drawing on and extending rich and diverse information systems.
Lorang joined the Libraries in 2013 as research assistant professor and digital projects librarian, and in 2016 was appointed associate professor and humanities librarian following a national search. Building on experiences as a digital projects librarian and humanities librarian, as well as on her passion for research and teaching, she has served as associate dean in the UNL Libraries since 2018. In this role, she and her team launched a designed, intentional, and high-impact research and learning division to meet the needs of today’s researchers and learners and to anticipate future information needs…
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