Princeton University has appointed Jon Stroop as the next dean of libraries and Robert H. Taylor 1930 University Librarian, effective August 1, 2026.
Jon has served as deputy dean of Princeton University Library since 2021, after joining the library in 2005. In positions of increasing responsibility, he has been integral to the library’s strategic planning, operations, services, and leadership. He helped transform its IT services, expanding digital access to the library’s collections and establishing Princeton as a leader in that area.
As deputy dean of libraries, Jon has helped advance the library’s teaching and research partnership with Princeton’s student and scholarly community and with scholars from across the world. He created the library’s assessment and user experience department, which develops data-driven insights to help evaluate and prioritize services for students, faculty, and researchers. He is chair of the Library Administration Team and serves on university-wide committees related to AI, teaching and learning technologies, and IT systems and security.
While at Princeton, Jon also helped develop the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), which fundamentally changed how libraries across the world present digitized resources and how students, scholars, and the public access and use the resources.
Before joining Princeton, Jon worked as a cataloger at the Juilliard School and as an associate editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, whose board of directors he currently chairs.
Jon earned an MSLIS from the Pratt Institute and a master’s in music from the University of Cincinnati. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford.
For more about this appointment, see the Princeton news release.
