Texas Tech University has appointed Seth Porter as dean of University Libraries, effective August 1, 2026.
Seth has served as dean of the Kraemer Family Library at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) for five years. He is also UCCS’s inaugural chief innovation officer. Under his guidance, the library has positioned itself as the campus hub for innovation in research, teaching, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. Seth helped establish the C3 Innovation Lab, which promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. He also helped raise more than $6 million in private philanthropy, grants, and other funding for the Kraemer Family Library, the innovation portfolio, and the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual (CSGI).
Widely published, Seth coauthored Engaging Design: Creating Libraries for Modern Users (2018) and has contributed to several book chapters and other publications. He was named a 2026 Fellow to the P3•EDU Innovation and Public-Private Partnership in Higher Education, and was named one of the 2025 Southern Colorado Business Forum & Digest “40 Under 40.”
Prior to his time at UCCS, Seth served as the assistant director of Digital Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship and director of the Donald E. Stokes Library at Princeton University. He previously served as the coordinator of instruction, program lead, and social science librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technology; instruction coordinator, government documents coordinator, and lecturer at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH); and director of the library at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.
Seth earned his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Wyoming and master’s degrees in library and information science from San José State University and public affairs and policy from UAH. He holds a doctorate in public administration from West Chester University.
For more about this appointment, see the Texas Tech news release.
