University of California (UC), Davis has named William Garrity interim university librarian, effective July 1, 2023.
Garrity, the deputy university librarian and chief operating officer, joined UC Davis Library in 2014. He has more than 30 years of experience working in university libraries, health sciences libraries, and information technology. His prior experience was at Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, and The University of Chicago.
In the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Garrity has served on the ARL Academy AUL Leadership Institute Task Force (2020), the Research and Analytics Committee (2017–2018), and the Assessment Visioning Task Force (2017).
At UC Davis, Garrity will serve as interim university librarian while the university conducts its search for a successor to MacKenzie Smith, who will retire at the end of June 2023. Smith has served as UC Davis’s university librarian and vice provost of digital scholarship for 11 years.
For more information about Garrity and this transition, see the UC Davis provost’s announcement, “William Garrity Appointed Interim University Librarian.”
