Xuemao Wang is the Dean of Libraries and the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian for Northwestern University. In his role, Xuemao oversees and facilitates the vision and strategies, and strategic plan implementation for the University Libraries. Xuemao has more than 30+years of diverse library and information technologies, services, management, and leadership experiences, with a career that spans the public, academic, large library consortium, and international library worlds. He has held global leadership positions in the International Federation of Library Association (IFLA), American Library Association (ALA), Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), HathiTrust, SPARC, and OhioLINK. He has been frequently invited to international conferences to speak 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 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.
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