Carol Mandel

Carol A. Mandel is Dean of the NYU Division of Libraries, which includes NYU’s libraries in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai; along with Campus Media Services, University Archives, and the NYU Press. She has been a leading figure in research librarianship during its turn of the 20th-century transformation in a digital environment. Her work has focused on the reconceptualization and redesign of infrastructures, services and partnerships to achieve the research library’s core mission in a multi-media age. Dean Mandel’s publications and presentations have also explored changing modes of research and teaching, preservation of digital content, new models in scholarly communication, and access to primary resources. Most recently, she has focused on infrastructure and service design to provide seamless services to students and faculty throughout NYU’s global system.

Dean Mandel has served as president and/or member of the board of directors of key organizations shaping today’s research library, including the Association of Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, HathiTrust, the Digital Preservation Network, and the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress. She was the recipient of the American Library Association’s 2011 Hugh C. Atkinson Award, which recognizes innovative leadership in the work of academic libraries.