Please join us in welcoming Robin Bishop to the Dalhousie Libraries. Robin is the new Manager, Acquisitions and Content Management on the Resources Team.

Robin comes to us with a strong background in academic libraries, having worked as the Manager, Library Services at the Higher Colleges of Technology Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates where she provided leadership for 40+ technical services and campus library staff to deliver services, training, and access to 100+ databases across 14 campus libraries, serving over 20,000 students. Prior to that, she also worked as a Library Supervisor in Dubai, UAE at the Higher Colleges of Technology where she led the strategic planning process, library services, and the annual acquisitions budget across two Dubai libraries for 4,000+ students and 300 staff.

Prior to her time in the UAE, Robin worked in California where she guided librarians and library staff through the design and implementation of customized computing environments around the world, and in Washington where she was part of a team that provided computers to public libraries in low-income communities for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Robin holds a Master of Library & Information Studies from the University of Alberta as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of New Brunswick.

On January 13, 2023, after more than 40 years at the Dalhousie University Libraries, Andrew Finch will begin his retirement. Due to vacation, his last day of work will be Friday, November 25.

Andrew’s career at the Libraries started as a student employee in September 1979. On December 16, 1982, he accepted the position of Evening Circulation Supervisor in the Circulation Department of the Killam Library. After four years in the evening position Andrew accepted a promotion, in May of 1986, to the Reserve Library Assistant position in the MacDonald Science Library, Circulation Department.

In August 1989, the Science Library Circulation merged with the Killam Circulation Department and Andrew’s duties evolved into Circulation Database Assistant. By the early 1990s, Andrew was working in Circulation as well as Technical Services where he provided collections support and worked with Government documents. In 1997, Andrew, along with other members of the access services and technical services teams, played an important role in the very successful integration of the Maritime School of Social Work Collection. This integration took a phenomenal effort and was extremely well done.

Andrew is finishing up a long career in the Libraries as a full-time Library Assistant in the Access Services Department of the Killam Library. Please join us in wishing him all the best as he begins this new chapter of his life.