Ann Hoang is Appointed University Librarian at NJIT

Personally, I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Ann on her appointment to University Librarian at NJIT.  She has been interim University Librarian since the untimely death of Richard Sweeney last May.  She did an excellent job especially since there were several long-term absences of key people over the last year. I was impressed when she attended two of my graduate student seminars in chemical engineering and physics.  I certainly wish her success in her new role.

Below is the announcement made by Provost Fadi Deek:

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ann D. Hoang to the position of University Librarian, effective July 1, 2017. She has served as interim University Librarian for the past year.

Ms. Hoang has been serving as the Assistant University Librarian at NJIT since December 2006, where her responsibilities have included initiatives related to open source library management systems with other NJ academic libraries and overall library management. Her emphasis has been on library user satisfaction, systems and technology infrastructure, workflow design analysis, and service and process evaluation. Ms. Hoang is a current member of the American Library Association (ALA), Library Information and Technology Association (LITA) and serves on the LibraryLinkNJ Website Advisory Taskforce.  Ms. Hoang is also an active participant in the Virtual Academic Library Environment of NJ and her contributions to the VALID project were recognized when she received the Technology Innovation Award in 2013.

Ms. Hoang has gained administrative experience in positions of increasing responsibility, from Reference and Materials Delivery Coordinator to Library Supervisor at Rutgers University; from Manager of Information Commons and Library Systems to Associate Director at Brookdale Community College; to Assistant University Librarian, and to interim University Librarian at NJIT. In these positions, she has been actively involved in budget management, library technology development, staff hiring and evaluation and forward-thinking concepts related to the future of academic libraries.

Ms. Hoang earned a master’s degree in Business Administration, a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and a bachelor’s degree in Economics, all from Rutgers University.

Please join me in congratulating Ann Hoang as University Librarian.

Thank you,