JOINElaine L. Westbrooks
Since July 2022, Elaine Westbrooks has been the University Librarian at Cornell University. She is responsible for the leadership and general administration of the University Library as well as Cornell University Press, which includes over 15 libraries and nearly 400 staff.
Westbrooks serves on the board of numerous organizations, including Sage Publishing and the Center for Open Science. Westbrooks is a leading thinker on issues related to equity, inclusion, and social justice in academic Libraries. While leading the University Libraries at UNC, Chapel Hill, Westbrooks lead the creation of the Reckoning Initiative, which has become an exemplar for transformational equity work in academic libraries. She has a B.A. and a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.