The University of Pennsylvania has appointed Brigitte Weinsteiger interim director of the Penn Libraries, effective September 13, 2023.
Weinsteiger has served as the Penn Libraries Gershwind & Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications since September 2022. As Senior Associate Vice Provost she directs the libraries’ academic and community engagement services; collection strategy; acquisitions, access, and licensing; the preservation, conservation, and exhibits programs; and library counsel and scholarly communications. In addition, she oversees the Penn Libraries’ 10 departmental libraries, directing personnel, facilities, access services, and operations at these locations across campus. She leads a team of 115 staff, in addition to hundreds of student employees and interns, and has direct oversight of the libraries’ information budget of $27 million.
Weinsteiger has served in multiple leadership positions since she joined the Penn Libraries staff in 2008. She holds a master of arts in liberal arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a master of library and information science from Drexel University.
At Penn Libraries, Weinsteiger will serve as interim director while the university conducts its search for a successor to Constantia Constantinou, who recently stepped down from her role as H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries after five years in the position.
For more information about Weinsteiger and this transition, see the Penn Libraries news release, “Brigitte Weinsteiger Appointed Interim Director of the Penn Libraries.”
