Susan Gibbons is Vice Provost and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester. Ms. Gibbons earned an MLS and MA in history from Indiana University, a professional MBA from the University of Massachusetts and just completed her doctorate in higher education administration at the University of Rochester. She held library positions at Indiana University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst before moving to the University of Rochester, where she worked as the director of digital library initiatives before moving into administration.
Most recently, Ms. Gibbons' research has focused on methodologies for user studies, the alignment of academic libraries with the needs of Net Generation students, university press publishing, and the future of academic librarianship in the digital age. In 2007 she published The Academic Library and the Net Generation Student and Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester, for which Ms. Gibbons was co-editor. She was named one of Library Journal's 2005 "Movers & Shakers" and in 2006 was a Visiting Program Officer for the Association for Research Libraries.
