2018! New Editor in Chief, Scott Seaman

Scott Seaman has been Dean of Libraries at Ohio University since 2009.

His library career began in 1984 at the Online Computer Library Center in Dublin, Ohio and has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University and at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  At the University of Colorado, he served as Associate Director of Libraries for 11 years and was responsible for strategic planning, assessment, library budgeting, facilities, and human resources.

He has published widely on library assessment and information ethics.  His co-authored piece, “Futuring, Strategic Planning, and Shared Awareness” was one of the Journal of Academic Librarianship’s most downloaded articles in January 2012.  His writings have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Polish, Japanese, and Mandarin and he has delivered papers on library topics throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, and South America.

In 1993, Mr. Seaman was one of the founding editors of LIBRES, one of the first online open-access journals in librarianship, and served as Research & Applications Editor of that journal for nearly 10 years.  He served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Academic Librarianship, from 2005 until 2012.  He has served on the boards of several prominent academic library journals and is currently on the Editorial Board of Reference & User Service Quarterly.

Mr. Seaman has served on numerous national committees pertaining to library administration and management and several governance boards, including those of the Colorado Library Association and the Central Colorado Library System.  He is currently past chair of the OhioLINK Library Advisory Council and serves on the Ohio Board of Regent’s Advisory Board for OhioLINK.  Mr. Seaman chairs one of three Ohio University governance committees towards implementing and managing a campus-wide Resource Centered Management budgeting model.

Mr. Seaman holds a bachelor’s degree from Wright State University and graduates degrees from The Ohio State University and Kent State University.