Norfolk State University has announced the appointment of Mr. Don Essex as Dean of Lyman Beecher Brooks Library. Before NSU, Mr. Essex was an associate professor and director of the Theofield G. Weis Library at Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland. He accomplished much in his seven year stint at WAU including acquiring a new integrated library system that effectively engaged researchers, developing a bibliographic instruction program that measurably increased information literacy on campus, and increasing the quality and quantity of physical and digital information resources at the library. Prior to Washington Adventist University, Mr. Essex served as the Legislative Information Specialist for the Washington Office of the American Library Association for thirteen years. He earned a B.A. in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in American History and Culture from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California, an M.L.S. in Library Science from the University of Maryland at College Park, and studied legislative affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Read more here.
