Xuemao Wang

Xuemao Wang is the Dean of Libraries and the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian for Northwestern University. In his role, Xuemao oversees and facilitates visions, strategies and plan implementation for the University Libraries. Xuemao has over 30 years of diverse experience in library and information technologies, services, management, and leadership, with a career that spans the public, academic, large library consortium and international library worlds. He has held global leadership positions in IFLA, ALA, CRL, ARL, SPARC, and OhioLINK. He has been frequently invited to international conferences to give speeches on topics of digital scholarship, digital humanities, and library strategic planning. Prior to working at Northwestern, he served as the Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, Dean and University Librarian of the University of Cincinnati. He has also held leadership positions at Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, the Metropolitan New York Library Council, Queens Borough Public library and worked as an academic librarian in China in his early career.