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Saint Martin’s University welcomes Amy Stewart-Mailhiot as the incoming dean of library and learning resources for the O’Grady Library. As dean, Stewart-Mailhiot will serve as the chief administrative officer of the O’Grady Library and provide leadership, strategic vision and effective management of all programs, services and collections. She will supervise the library staff and oversee the Learning Commons, collaboratively set a strategic direction for the O’Grady Library and manage and generate financial resources to support and enhance library services. Stewart-Mailhiot will be responsible for promoting greater collaboration among the library, the Center for Student Learning, Writing, and Advising and other academic centers and offices on campus. In addition, she will also support the creation of an institutional repository to disseminate University scholarship. Stewart-Mailhiot will start at Saint Martin’s on July 1, 2018.

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Amy Stewart Mailhiot is the new dean of library and learning resources for the O’Grady Library. Photo courtesy: Saint Martin’s University

“We welcome Amy Stewart-Mailhiot to Saint Martin’s University,” said Saint Martin’s University President Roy F. Heynderickx, Ph.D. “Her extensive background in library management and student success will be a great addition to our library and our learning community. We look forward to her leadership and collegiality.”

“I’m very excited to be joining Saint Martin’s,” Stewart-Mailhiot said. “I am particularly excited to build on the good work already taking place in the O’Grady Library and to collaborate with stakeholders across campus to continue to create a library that serves as a center of student learning and engagement. I am looking forward to making new connections with students, faculty and staff and learning what the community wants from their library.”

Stewart-Mailhiot comes to Saint Martin’s from Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, where she has served as an associate professor, instruction coordinator and reference librarian since 2010. At PLU, Stewart-Mailhiot developed a robust information literacy program and collaborated with faculty on the creation of an information literacy curriculum for PLU’s First Year Experience Program. During her time at PLU, she also focused on student learning and success; she served as a member and chair of the university’s faculty committee on the admission and retention of students and led the team in creating a strategic plan for retention. Stewart-Mailhiot also led the development of the vision for the Center for Student Success within PLU’s Mortvedt Library, and her work involved close collaboration with the university’s Language Resource Center, Academic Assistance Center and Writing Center.

Prior to her time at PLU, Stewart-Mailhiot served within the Central Library at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. At Vanderbilt, her roles included government information librarian, acting head of government information and media services, head of media services and bibliographer and reference librarian.

Stewart-Mailhiot graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon, and earned her master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Washington.

Saint Martin’s University is an independent, four-year, coeducational university located on a wooded campus of more than 300 acres in Lacey, Washing­ton. Established in 1895 by the Catholic Order of Saint Benedict, the University is one of 14 Benedic­tine colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and the only one west of the Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University prepares students for successful lives through its 25 majors and seven graduate programs spanning the liberal arts, business, education, nursing and engineering. Saint Martin’s welcomes more than 1,300 undergraduate students and 250 graduate students from many ethnic and religious backgrounds to its Lacey campus, and more students to its extended campus located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Visit the Saint Martin’s University website at www.stmartin.edu.

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