New Library Dean Named
By Jody Record, Campus Journal Editor
December 19, 2007
Sherry Vellucci, a professor of library science at Rutgers University’s
School of Communication, Information and Library Science and the former director
of the Division of Library and Information Science at St. John’s University,
has been selected as the new library dean.
Vellucci, a faculty member at Rutgers since 2004, was a visiting professor
at Victoria University of Wellington School of Information Management in
Wellington, New Zealand in 2005. She holds a Ph.D from Columbia University.
“The appointment of Dr. Vellucci as the next Dean of the Library is
great news. The search committee reviewed the credentials of many outstanding
candidates and clearly selected the best one,” said Provost Bruce Mallory. “Dr.
Vellucci's depth of experience, her national and international leadership
roles, and her knowledge of technology applications are just the attributes
that our evolving university requires.”
Prior to joining Rutgers, Vellucci was director of the Division of Library
and Information Science at St. John’s University in New York from 2001
to 2004. She also served on the teaching faculty at St. John’s from
1992 to 2004, and as the director of the university’s Digital Library
Planning Initiative. From 1983 to 1992, Vellucci was director of library
and media services at Westminster Choir College, a college of music in Princeton,
New Jersey.
Described as one of the world’s leading cataloging theoreticians,
Vellucci is the author of “Bibliographic Relationships in Music Catalogs,” a
book called groundbreaking in understanding the complexities of music cataloging
and the impact of these complexities on the structure of the catalog.
She is the co-author with Jerry D. Saye of “Notes In The Catalog Record
Based On AACR2 And LC Rule Interpretations” and is a contributor to
several other books as well as the author of various articles and reference
materials.
In addition to her teaching in New Zealand, Vellucci has taught workshops
and given presentations in Vietnam, Italy, Switzerland, Scotland, France
and Canada.
Vellucci is an editorial board member for the Cataloging and Classification
Quarterly and a past board member of the New York Library Club and the New
York Metropolitan Library Council. She also served as president of the International
Association of Music Libraries, United States branch, and as a board member
and treasurer of the Music Library Association.
She is advisory board co-chair of the ALISE/ALCTS Metadata Education and
Research Information Commons and is a member of the American Library Association,
the International Association of Music Libraries, the Music Library Association,
the American Society for Information Science and Technology, the Special
Libraries Association, the New York Technical Services Librarians and a past
member of the Music OCLC Users Group.
“I am truly thrilled to be part of the UNH community. The position of library
dean is an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic academic library at an
interesting and challenging time of change and innovation,” Vellucci
said.
When asked if she had any concerns about taking on the harsh New England
winters Vellucci replied “although I grew up in New Jersey, I have
strong ties to New England. My father came from Cambridge, Massachusetts,
where early in my career I worked at the Cambridge Public Library. My parents
retired to Hampton, New Hampshire, and my brother lived in Madbury, New Hampshire
and Eliot and South Berwick, Maine. This position affords me the opportunity
to return to an area that I love and where I already feel at home.”
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