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About the Dean

Kevin Garewal began his tenure as vice provost and the fourth Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the University of Rochester Libraries in February 2022.

Prior to joining Rochester, Garewal served as the associate director of collections at Harvard Law School Library. At Harvard, he was heavily involved in diversifying the collection and in leading a diversity, inclusion, belonging and anti-racism plan to assess, diversify, and collect materials and increase traditional digital access to those items. As part of this work, he played a key role in garnering donor support to digitize content from under-represented communities. He also had direct administrative responsibility for four areas in the Harvard Law Library: collection development, historic & special collections, digital lab, and service design and assessment.

Garewal has extensive collection development experience in university, public, and special libraries, and he often delivers presentations on collection development, monograph acquisition, and researchers’ needs. He holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Kent State University and a JD and master’s degree in accounting from Cleveland State University.

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Mary Ann Mavrinac. Vice Provost & Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Emeritus Dean, University of Rochester Libraries