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The Fresno State Library announced the assignment of Janet Crum arsenic its caller dean of room services, effectual Aug. 1.
Crum joins Fresno State from the University of Arizona successful Tucson, wherever she served arsenic manager of the Health Sciences Library. Her extended acquisition includes enactment roles astatine Northern Arizona University, City of Hope National Medical Center and Oregon Health & Science University.
Crum holds a bachelor’s grade successful English from the University of the Pacific and a master’s successful room subject from the University of Washington.
A prolific scholar, Crum has authored galore diary articles and league presentations. She precocious co-edited “Essential Leadership Skills for Health Sciences Information Professionals” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Her nonrecreational interests span starring distant and hybrid enactment teams, worker engagement, room leadership, emerging roles for world librarians, task management, room exertion and the interaction of world libraries connected organization outcomes.
With heavy roots successful the San Joaquin Valley, Crum discovered her passionateness for room subject arsenic a pupil adjunct successful Special Collections astatine Pacific. There, she developed a unsocial skill: the quality to decipher John Muir’s handwriting. Outside of work, Crum enjoys penning fiction, gardening, hiking and traveling.
“I’m excited to articulation Fresno State and to enactment with the outstanding unit of the Fresno State Library! I grew up successful the San Joaquin Valley (in Tracy) and person ever considered it to beryllium my home. I’m grateful for the accidental to instrumentality and to lend to Fresno State’s ngo of work to the divers students and communities that telephone this portion home,” said Crum of joining the Fresno State ranks.
Crum’s assignment concludes a 17-month search, during which Dr. Bernadette T. Muscat, dean of Undergraduate Studies astatine Fresno State, served arsenic interim dean. The Fresno State Library, serving arsenic the intelligence hub for the university’s divers assemblage of 23,000 students, fosters collaboration, enquiry and learning.
“Janet Crum brings with her a wealthiness of acquisition and enactment skills. Our room volition flourish nether her direction, arsenic volition research, teaching and learning each crossed Fresno State,” said Fresno State Provost Xuanning Fu.
