Library Directory by Unit

Collegiate Librarian, Norman J. Radow College of Humanities & Social Science 
Social Sciences Departments
Librarian Associate Professor
 

sard3@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6202

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the Radow College of Humanities & Social Sciences 
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of the social sciences.
• Provides research support for the Radow College of Humanities & Social Sciences 

Data Services Librarian
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

lbeane@kennesaw.edu

Phone: (470) 578-3167 

• Provides advisory service to researchers on best practices in data management throughout the research lifecycle that align with responsible digital citizenship and FAIR and CARE data principles
• Serves as the institutions liaison for Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
• Develops and provides data literacies program with campus partners by providing consultation services, workshops, instructional programming, online tools, and outreach related to research data management, data literacy, open data, datasets, and digital technologies for research using in-depth knowledge of software and specialized tools. 

Collegiate Librarian, Wellstar College of Health and Human Services
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

kbenneds@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6192

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of health and human services.
• Provides research support for the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services 

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the Coles College of Business
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of business, information systems, accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management (hospitality and healthcare), and information security.
• Provides research support for the Coles College of Business 

Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Instruction, Collegiate Librarians
Librarian Assistant Professor
 
kcleme19@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2791

• Coordinates AEI’s instruction program, and provides strategic guidance on its curriculum development
• Serve as a unit point of contact in facilitating partnerships with university academic support areas, off-campus stakeholders, and academic student groups to create collaborative programming opportunities on both campuses.

Assistant Director of Academic Engagement and Instruction, Scholarly Publishing & Research
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

cdickso5@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7639

• Serves as the point of contact for KSU and USG organizations, research consortiums, and centers that support Open Education, Open Access, Open Science, and faculty and student research endeavors. 
• Serves as an advisor for best practices in scholarly communication, open access publishing models, and copyright by creating educational resources and conducting outreach to the KSU community
• Manages the Open Access Publishing Fund and the Undergraduate Research Award  

Director of Academic Engagement and Instruction
Librarian Associate Professor
 

kdosterg@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2752

• Guides the unit’s mission to support student success and the university’s diverse research needs by providing strategic direction to the unit’s work, including the improvement and growth of unit services, collaboration with internal and external library stakeholders to improve and expand library services, and represent our unit’s interests to library administration and the university. 

Educational Outreach Librarian
Librarian Associate Professor
 

ldrost@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-3884

• Serves as the point of contact for KSU academic support units and academic student groups
• Develops and coordinates academic library instruction support resources with a focus on fundamental information literacy skills such as the Library Online Orientation Program (LOOP) and
  Library Experience Asynchronous Program (LEAP)
• Provides research and instructional support for KSU Ged Ed curriculum

Institutional Repository Supervisor

 

hhankin3@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2348

• Serves as the point of contact for the KSU Libraries Institutional Repository
  Provides editorial support to hosted journals, including support for web publishing, copyright questions, journal workflows, and layout questions
• Organizes and facilitates training sessions for faculty, students, and community users of the institutional repository. 

Affordable Learning Librarian
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

ojayeola@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5954

• Serves as a KSU Libraries advisor on trends, legal requirements, and best practices regarding affordable course content (such as OER and LibGuides), open educational practices (such as open pedagogy and technologies), open licensing, and ensuring fair use and copyright compliance.
• Provides consultation services, workshops, online tools, and outreach related to OER, openly licensed content, library licensed materials, and other affordable course materials.
• Collaborates with teaching faculty in the identification, adoption, creation, and assessment of open and affordable course content, and assist with integrating affordable materials into their curriculum, D2L, or other course settings. 

Collegiate Librarian, College of Computing and Software Engineering and the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

akowis@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2465

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the College of Computing and Software Engineering and the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of engineering, computer science, game design, data science & analytics, information technology, software design, and patents. 
• Provides research support for the College of Computing and Software Engineering and the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology 

Collegiate Librarian, Bagwell College of Education
Librarian Professor
 

okoz@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6004

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the Bagwell College of Education
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of education, instructional design, instructional technology, education leadership, and research evidence synthesis.
• Provides research support for the Bagwell College of Education

Collegiate Librarian, College of the Arts
Librarian Assistant Professor 
 
kxs2120@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-3228

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the Geer College of the Arts
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of Art, Art History, Dance, Music, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Digital Animation.
• Provides research support for the Geer College of the Arts 

Collegiate Librarian, College of Architecture and Construction Management
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

mlee214@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6202

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the College of Architecture and Construction Management
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of architecture and construction management
• Provides research support for the College of Architecture and Construction Management 

Collegiate Librarian, Norman J. Radow College of Humanities & Social Science 
Humanities Departments
Librarian Assistant Professor 
 

hmabry@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2010

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the Radow College of Humanities & Social Sciences 
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the area of humanities.
• Provides research support for the Radow College of Humanities & Social Sciences 

Academic Engagement & Instruction, Program Assistant

 

bparfait@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5978

• Provides administrative support to the unit 

Institutional Repository Specialist

rschraub@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2741

• Provides technical support for hosted collections, journals, and conference materials in the KSU Institutional Repository
• Provides statistical reporting about the use of the Institutional Repository to creators and generates analytical reports for KSU colleges and campus administrative units 

 

csharpe@kennesaw.edu 

(470) 578-6190

• Serves as the point of contact for college administration, faculty, and students within the College of Science and Math
• Develops and provides instructional offerings and learning objects to foster professional literature knowledge, information retrieval, critical thinking, and advanced level research skills in the areas of mathematics, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, environmental science, and physics.
• Provides research support for the College of Science and Math

Office Manager

 

hbisesi@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5985

• General library information
• Library facilities, supplies, or offices 

Web and Digital Strategy Specialist
 

eflint3@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5976

• Oversees the design, content, and maintenance of the University Libraries and Museums, Archives and Rare Books websites
• Manages LinkedIn social media presence for University Libraries and Museums, Archives and Rare Books

Communications and Outreach Manager

 

cgardn56@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7076

• Communications
• Promotion & Marketing
• Event Management

Director, Operations Museums, Archives, and Rare Books (MARB) and Library Services

 

sgreen54@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2713

• Operational support
• Facilities and IT projects
• Budgeting and funding

Associate Vice Provost
Museums, Archives & Rare Books and University Libraries 
Professor 
 

clewis1@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2310

• Library Administration 

Collection Strategy Librarian 
Librarian Associate Professor
 

laycock8@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-4825

• Collaborates with director and team in budget planning, tracking, and purchasing
• Coordinates to strategize and evaluate new collection development methods
• Coordinates with Acquisitions and Licensing Librarian to recommend trials and subscription cuts 

Collection Analytics Librarian 
Librarian Associate Professor
 

jwatki35@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2983

• Manages the retrieval and storage of usage statistical reports in the library using relational databases to conduct analysis and maintain data quality
• Gather, assess, interpret, and present qualitative and quantitative data for library collections
• Use data analysis to identify areas for development and management in the library's collections to improve

Collection Management Librarian 
Librarian Professor 
 

xchen8@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7465

• Leading the weeding projects, developing the annual plan for physical management of the collections
• Formulate weeding criteria for the subject areas for first review of materials 

Systems Librarian 
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

mday31@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2521

• Oversees the university library systems and service providers including Alma and FOLIO
• Oversees library authentication systems such as Open Athens 

Collection Development Assistant 

 

hgivens1@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5958

• Purchases one-time books and materials
• Assists collection strategy in data gathering for informed collection development 

Library Resources Support Specialist

 

djockers@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5905

• Oversees the Service Now tickets for the university libraries
• Point person for some library systems 

Metadata Specialist

 

ekeyser@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7473

• Receives and processes physical books
• Performs copy cataloging and location changes  

Library Acquisition Specialist

 

epurnawa@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6248

• Processes invoices of purchased library materials 

Interim Director of Resource Strategy and Management
Librarian Associate Professor
 

asexto16@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6511

• Leads the Resource Strategy and Management Unit, including personnel development, budgets, and inter-unit communications 

Collection Management Specialist 

 

jsierra9@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6259

• Oversees the hiring, training, scheduling, regular check-ins, etc with the student workers for RSM that mainly work on the physical collections
• Primary contact for the physical repairing of books, including noting their status in the library system accurately 

User Services Associate

 

lbonill2@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7070

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Associate

 

lbonill2@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7070

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Associate

 

rbristo2@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7920

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.

User Services Associate

 

kbutle69@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6202

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Manager

 

tchisum@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6662

• Oversees and manages all services received at the check-out desk including circulation of library materials, assisting patrons with using library resources, referring reference inquiries to librarians, and supervising library associates and student assistants.   

Resource Sharing Assistant

 

scrampto@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-3450

• Processes intercampus, document delivery, GIL Express, and interlibrary loan requests made by the KSU community and partner libraries.   

User Services Associate

 

cdeaves@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5967

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Associate

 

mdinoff@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-3893

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries. 
• Serves as point of contact for physical and electronic course reserves.

User Services Associate 

 

ngifford@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5048

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Associate

 

jriver75@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6204

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

Resource Sharing Assistant

 

anelis@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2736

• Processes intercampus, document delivery, GIL Express, and interlibrary loan requests made by the KSU community and partner libraries. 

Resource Sharing Assistant

 

anelis@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-2736

• Processes intercampus, document delivery, GIL Express, and interlibrary loan requests made by the KSU community and partner libraries. 

User Services Associate 

 

jhuh2@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5902

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Manager

 

mkirkley@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7275

• Oversees and manages all services received at the check-out desk including circulation of library materials, assisting patrons with using library resources, referring reference inquiries to librarians, and supervising library associates and student assistants.   

User Services Associate

 

dmassen9@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5330

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries. 

Reference Coordinator
Librarian Assistant Professor
 

cmeyer35@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-5309

• Coordinates and monitors online and in-person reference services
• Manages FAQ collection

Resource Sharing Coordinator 

 

aderosa@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7472

• Oversees and manages all resource sharing services including intercampus and document delivery, GIL Express, and interlibrary loan.  

User Services Associate 

 

kozeryan@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-7476

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.  

User Services Associate

 

swebb41@kennesaw.edu

(470) 578-6649

• Assists library users with checking in and out library materials, finding library resources, and general inquiries.