The University welcomes John Unsworth, who begins his first full week as university librarian and dean of libraries today, June 27. Unsworth returns to the university where he earned his Ph.D. in English in 1988, and served from 1993–2003 as director of the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Most recently Unsworth was vice provost, university librarian, and chief information officer at Brandeis University, and before that was dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His interests include scholarly communication, digital humanities, history of books and publishing, and 20th-century American Literature. The Chronicle of Higher Education calls him a digital humanities pioneer.

Welcome, John!

Read more: John M. Unsworth Chosen as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries (UVA Library News and Announcements, 4/14/2016)