Tulane University has named Lindsay Cronk dean of libraries, effective August 1, 2023.
Cronk previously served as assistant dean for scholarly resources and curation at the University of Rochester for two years. Prior to that, she held the positions of director for collection strategies and head of collection strategies at Rochester, where she worked since 2017. Cronk successfully implemented a variety of campus-wide initiatives and community partnerships, including establishing the libraries as the licensing clearinghouse of the university, initiating the campus affordability Access to Course Textbooks Commitment, co-authoring the university’s open-access and copyright policies, and supporting multiple web and system migrations. She also established the Open Educational Resource Grant Program, a course material program for instructors and students, and sponsored library support for the Rochester Education Justice Initiative prison education program.
Before joining Rochester, Cronk was the coordinator of online resources and collections at the University of Houston and worked for LYRASIS, a nonprofit membership organization serving and supporting libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage companies worldwide.
Cronk earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations and studio art from Agnes Scott College; a master’s in library and information science, technology track, from Valdosta State University; and an education specialist degree in instructional technology from Georgia Southern University.
In the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Cronk has served on the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee since January 2023.
At Tulane, Cronk will succeed David Banush, who stepped down in October 2022 after leading the Tulane University Libraries for seven years. Andy Corrigan has been serving as interim dean since October 2022.
For more information about Cronk and this appointment, see the Tulane University news release “Lindsay Cronk Named Tulane University’s New Dean of Libraries.”
