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OHIO
UNIVERSITY NAMES NEW DEAN OF LIBRARIES
5/12/99
Contact: Provost Sharon Brehm, (740) 593-2600
News directors, editors: A photo of Julia Zimmerman
may be downloaded at: www.ohiou.edu/news/pix/ZIMMERMAN.JPG
ATHENS,
Ohio -- Julia Zimmerman, associate director of Georgia Tech
Library in Atlanta, has been named dean of university
libraries
at Ohio University. Current library Dean Hwa-Wei Lee has
announced he will retire in August.
Zimmerman
has been in her current position at Georgia Tech since 1993,
overseeing the day-to-day activities of the library,
supervising three assistant directors and coordinating
maintenance and building projects with the university's
facilities office.
At Ohio,
Zimmerman will be the chief executive officer of the
university libraries, reporting to the provost. Zimmerman
will oversee a staff of some 200 contract, classified and
student employees working in the library system.
"I am
delighted that Julia Zimmerman will join us as the new dean
of university libraries. She has an outstanding record of
accomplishment in her previous work at Georgia Tech,"
Provost Sharon Brehm said. "She is well informed and savvy
about technology, dedicated to customer service, and is a
skillful administrator who can build teamwork within the
library as well as collaborations across campus, state and
nation. She will be a superb dean of libraries."
At Georgia
Tech, Zimmerman also has served as the libraries assistant
director for Information Services, head of the Systems
Department and head of the Database Management
Department.
"It was an
honor to be selected as dean of libraries at Ohio
University," Zimmerman said. "It's a fine university and an
exciting place to be. I'm very impressed with the Alden
Library, and I look forward to working with the library
staff to provide the best possible library services to the
Ohio University community."
Zimmerman
completed a bachelor's degree in English from Florida State
University in Tallahassee in 1970 and a master's degree in
librarianship from Emory University in Atlanta in
1976.
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