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Armstrong named director of Center for Library Initiatives

Kimberly Armstrong

GSLIS alumna Kimberly Armstrong (MS '91) has been named director of the Center for Library Initiatives (CLI) of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). In this role she will work closely with CIC library directors to manage this distinctive collaboration of fifteen member libraries, overseeing $30 million in licensing, the development of a 250,000 volume storage facility, and a growing digital collection of seven million volumes. She will begin work in her new position on March 1, 2016.

The Center for Library Initiatives (CLI) has three primary objectives: optimizing student and faculty access to the combined resources of CIC libraries; maximizing cost, time, and space savings; and supporting a collaborative environment where library staff can work together to solve their mutual problems.

In addition to her GSLIS degree, Armstrong holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in music from Appalachian State University. She has more than twenty years of experience working in academic libraries and consortia, and during the most recent eight years served as CLI deputy director, where she was recognized as a 2015 University of Illinois Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award winner.

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