University of Rochester has appointed Timothy McGeary the next University of Rochester Librarian and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the University of Rochester Libraries, effective March 1, 2026.
Tim currently serves as associate university librarian for digital strategies and technology at Duke University. He oversees major enterprise systems, digital preservation and repository services, software development, data and visualization services, and technology operations that support teaching, research, and scholarship across Duke’s campus. His portfolio also includes institution-wide partnerships and collaborations on research computing and data services, academic technologies, and long-term digital infrastructure planning. At Duke, Tim has led strategic efforts to modernize and integrate digital systems, advance open-source and community-developed library technologies, and expand service models that support evolving scholarly practices.
He previously held leadership positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Lehigh University, where he guided teams in library technology services, systems integration, digital scholarship support, and academic IT strategy. Throughout his career, Tim has built collaborative partnerships across academic units, developed organizational cultures that foster innovation, and contributed to national initiatives focused on digital repositories, open-source system governance, and shared library technology platforms.
In the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Tim currently serves on the ARL Leadership Fellows Program (LFP) Task Force and served on the LFP Selection Working Group in 2021–2022. He is an ARL Leadership Fellow alum, class of 2016–2017.
At University of Rochester, Tim will succeed Kevin Garewal, who stepped down as vice provost and dean of libraries in July 2024. Maurini Strub has been serving as interim vice provost and interim dean of libraries since August 2024.
For more about Tim McGeary and this appointment, see the URochester news release.
