The University of Cincinnati (UC) has named Elizabeth Kiscaden dean and university librarian of the UC Libraries, effective August 14, 2023, pending approval by the UC Board of Trustees.
Kiscaden currently serves as university librarian and assistant vice provost of library services at Creighton University. While at Creighton, she has worked to modernize legacy library systems and infrastructure to support an “anytime, anywhere, any device” philosophy and is overseeing the development of a single library enterprise, bringing together campus and health sciences libraries. During her tenure at Creighton, Kiscaden also established new climate-controlled space for archival storage, linked the campus innovation and design lab with the libraries, and implemented a comprehensive research information management system.
Prior to her service at Creighton, Kiscaden held positions at the University of Iowa, first as the head of Library Services at Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, and later as the associate director of the Greater Midwest Regional Office of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Earlier in her career, she served as the library director of the Luise V. Hanson Library at Waldorf College and held the position of medical librarian at Mercy Medical Center–North Iowa.
Kiscaden received an undergraduate degree in music performance from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and holds a master’s degree in library and information sciences from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
At the University of Cincinnati, Kiscaden will succeed Xuemao Wang, who stepped down in July 2022 after leading the UC Libraries for a decade. Lori Harris has been serving as interim dean and university librarian since July 2022.
For more information about Kiscaden and this appointment, see the UC news release “Dean and University Librarian Named to Lead University of Cincinnati Libraries.”
