Hooray! Have just learned that the hard-working, astute and perfect Tom McNally has been named Dean of Libraries at the University of South Carolina where he has served as interim dean since 2007. McNally, who joined the libraries nearly 19 years ago as university librarian for public services, said strong libraries are essential to the university’s success. “The library plays a key role in the process of teaching, learning, and research,” McNally said. “We must continue to build and conserve our collections. We must work every day to develop services that keep pace with the technologies that our users are employing. We must remodel our libraries to reflect the changes in the ways our students learn and interact with one another. Each librarian we recruit must be a leader capable of creating initiatives and moving them into daily practice.” McNally earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Kent State University and a master’s in library science from the University of Washington. He was a librarian at Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and Loyola University in Chicago before joining the University of South Carolina’s library staff in 1991. McNally served as director of Thomas Cooper Library from 2003 until he was named interim dean of libraries in 2007, replacing Paul Willis.
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