Dec
10

Search committee named for new SLA director

A search committee has been created identify and evaluate candidates for the new position of director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, which are being merged into a single unit. Nancy Gwinn, director of Smithsonian Libraries since 1997, has announced she will retire at the end of the year.

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The committee will be assisted by an executive search firm in recommending finalists for the position. If you would like to suggest a candidate for consideration, please contact any member of the search committee.

  • Scott Miller, Chair
    Deputy Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
  • Susan Battley
    SIL Advisory Board Chair
  • Richard Choi
    SIL Advisory Board
  • Anthea Hartig
    Elizabeth MacMillan Director, National Museum of American History
  • Ian Owens
    Deputy Director, National Museum of Natural History
  • Tammy Peters
    Interim Director, Smithsonian Institution Archives
  • Chase Robinson
    Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
  • Jerry Sheehan
    Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine
  • Kathryn Turner
    SIL Advisory Board
  • Brandee Worsham
    Reference and Assistant Librarian, National Museum of African American History and Culture Library

Senior Program Officer Amy Marino will be assisting the committee.  Scott Miller will serve as interim director of Smithsonian Libraries until the new Smithsonian Libraries and Archives director is hired.

 

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Posted: 10 December 2019
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.