Stephanie Walker, incoming Chief Librarian at Brooklyn College, joins the NYSHEI Governing Board.  Ms. Walker was elected by the CUNY Council of Chief Librarians to fill one of the two CUNY slots on the NYSHEI Board.

Ms.Walker is a Professor, Chair of the Library, and Acting (until July 1) Chief Librarian & Executive Director of Academic Information Technology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.  Before coming to Brooklyn College, she held positions as Manager of Collections for the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School; University Librarian and Dean at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Head Librarian of the Dental Library of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Ms. Walker has also held numerous IT-related positions.  She holds a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Toronto, and Masters and Bachelors degrees in English from the University of Waterloo.  Her research interests include Open Access Publishing; Scholarly Communications in the Digital Environment; Open Source Computing and Its Applications in Library and Information Environments; and Innovative Ways of Providing Library Services to Online Learners.

Ms. Walker begins her three-year term filling the seat formerly held by Dr. Louise Sherby, a founding member of the NYSHEI Board, 2006-07 NYSHEI Board Chair, and Chief Librarian at Hunter College.