About the Dean

          Vicki Coleman provides leadership and vision for the largest classroom at North Carolina A&T State University—the F.D. Bluford Library. As Dean of Library Services, she oversees 60 FTE faculty, staff, and student assistants. She believes that the library is a transformative force in the campus community igniting intellectual curiosity and fueling academic exploration among students, researchers, and scholars alike.

          Dean Coleman is an Aggie. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from N.C. A&T State University. She also received a Master of Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Prior to joining N.C. A&T, she held leadership positions in libraries at Arizona State University, the University of Virginia, the University of Kansas, and Texas A&M University. Before entering the library profession, she was a mechanical engineer at Corning Incorporated and Ford Motor Company.Her research interests are in equitable and open scholarship.

          Coleman is a member of several advisory boards and steering committees, including the Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust Board, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Steering Committee, the portal: Libraries and the Academy Editorial Board, and the Association of 1890 Land-Grant Library Deans/Directors Association, where she serves as Chair.

          Coleman is a fellow of the EDUCAUSE-affiliated Frye Leadership Institute (currently the Leading Change Institute), a fellow of the Association of Research Libraries Leadership and Career Development Program, and a recipient of the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership and Service Award. She holds membership in the American Library Association, the North Carolina Library Association, and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.