Dean of Libraries University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst, Massachusetts We are pleased to announce that from a strong pool of candidates, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has selected Curtis Brundy as the next dean of University Libraries, effective April 1, 2025.Brundy currently serves as the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University. At Iowa State, he oversees collections and open strategies, metadata services, access services, and research data services. An international leader in open access, he speaks regularly about open strategy, pricing, and publishing integrity. He serves on several boards including IOP Publishing, Open Library of Humanities, and the AAAS/Science Library Advisory Board.As the past chair for the Lever Initiative, an open access press led collectively by a group of academic libraries, Brundy has championed making scholarship available to all. He has also served as a member of the OA2020 US Working Group, an information-sharing community focused on establishing universal open access for scholarly journal literature.Before joining ISU, Brundy served as the library director of both Wartburg College and Western Nebraska Community College.Brundy received his master’s in library science from the University of North Texas, a master’s in higher education administration from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Read the full press release here.Sean Farrell led this search with Hannah Moore and Drew Chang.