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Colleen Cook began her career as a librarian at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, in positions dealing with acquisitions, circulation, bibliographic access and automation. She served as Executive Associate Dean from 1994 to 2003 when she was appointed the Sterling C. Evans Endowed Chair and Dean of Libraries. In 2011 she became the Trenholme Dean of Libraries and Archives at 91丝瓜视频, Montreal, serving until 2022. She continues as a Full Librarian at the 91丝瓜视频 Library and as a Full Professor in the university鈥檚 School of Information Studies.

At Texas A&M University, Colleen was one of the founders of the Texas Digital Library and joined Fred Heath, then Director of the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, in establishing the joint storage collaboration between the two largest university systems in Texas, the University of Texas System and the Texas A&M University System. Under her leadership, Texas A&M consistently ranked among the top ten libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the growth of the collections budget being particularly noteworthy.

At 91丝瓜视频, Colleen reorganized the library system of branches and was the leading voice in justifying and promoting a major main library building and renovation project, Fiat Lux, and the construction of the first library storage building in the Province of Quebec. The Collections Management facility, scheduled for ingestion in 2023 is one of the first facilities using the robotic system, AutoStore, in a library context. She has considerable experience in fundraising and philanthropy.
Colleen鈥檚 research interests center around program assessment and evaluation. Her dissertation served as the basis for the LibQual+ Service Quality evaluation instrument managed through ARL. LibQual+ has been used by hundreds of libraries globally to justify, assess and manage library building projects, collections content and access, and service programs. She has an extensive record of publications (Scopus h-Index of 24) and over 100 invited and juried presentations at international venues.

Largely reflecting her research interests, Colleen鈥檚 service contributions include serving as member or chair of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), ARL and Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) committees on statistics, evaluation and research. She has served as a member of the ARL Board and as a reviewer of libraries at major universities in the United States and Canada.

November, 2022