Emily Sherwood

Emily is University Librarian at Rochester Institute of Technology where she leads an innovative and creative team of library professionals committed to expanding access and furthering the teaching and research goals of the institute. Prior to joining RIT, she was Director of Digital Scholarship and Studio X at University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries. Emily is an alum of both the Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the EDUCAUSE/CLIR Leading Change Institute.

At heart, Emily is a teacher, learner, and problem solver: she finds joy in watching others learn and grow and helping them create a path to do so. This is true whether she is working with students, faculty, library staff, or colleagues across the university and beyond. Her career in higher-education started over twenty years ago when she taught her first literature courses at Montclair State University and subsequently Hunter College, CUNY and Bucknell University.