Librarian profiles
UVic's librarians have a wide range of knowledge and expertise. Learn more about their research and service areas and get in touch.
Looking for specialized support for a subject area? Find a librarian and book an appointment.
Social Sciences Librarian Libraries
Office: A227 bebbingt@uvic.ca 250-721-8252
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: anthropology | Supports: newspapers, student engagement and learning
University Librarian Libraries
Office: 411 bengtson@uvic.ca 250-721-8211
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: library management | Scholarly expertise: library history, book history, evolution of libraries, cultural heritage digitization
Fine Arts Librarian Libraries
Office: A203 blairw@uvic.ca 250-472-5025
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: film studies; music; School of Languages, Linguistics, and Culture | Supports: media, video acquisitions, podcasting
Humanities Librarian Libraries
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: gender studies, Indigenous studies | Supports: government information, international students | Scholarly expertise: library science
Geospatial & Social Sciences Librarian Libraries
Office: A231 danielbm@uvic.ca 250-853-3619
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: economics, environmental studies, earth & ocean sciences, geography, sociology | Supports: maps, GIS, social sciences & humanities data | Scholarly expertise: geospatial & numeric data
Digital Preservation Librarian Libraries
Office: 266 coreyd@uvic.ca 778-677-5746
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: digital preservation, web archiving | Scholarly expertise: large language models
Associate Director, Special Collections Libraries
Office: A005c hdean@uvic.ca 250-721-8247
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: special collections, archives, rare books | Scholarly expertise: book history, print culture, cultural heritage, material culture, primary source literacy, library history
Head, Metadata Libraries
Office: 238 lauradoublet@uvic.ca 250-721-6088
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: metadata, cataloguing standards, rare books description
Head, Digital Infrastructure Libraries
Office: 202D jdurno@uvic.ca 250-472-5069
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: library systems | Scholarly expertise: historic computing
Head, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Libraries
Office: 250 evelynmf@uvic.ca 250-472-4638
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: acquisitions, electronic resource management
Status: On leave until September 2026
Librarian Libraries
Office: A318a lgoddard@uvic.ca 250-721-8192
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: digital publishing, linked data, persistent identifiers, library technology
Head, Advanced Research Services Libraries
Office: A318d kgodfrey@uvic.ca 250-721-8251
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: data curation, digital scholarship, digital projects, library instruction & outreach, research data management
Science & Research Data Literacy Librarian Libraries
Office: A318f mgrenier@uvic.ca 250-721-8213
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: psychology, biology, forest biology | Supports: research data management (RDM), open science
Engineering & Science Librarian Libraries
Office: A209 aditig@uvic.ca 250-721-6085
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: biochemistry, microbiology, engineering, computer science | Supports: inclusive teaching practices, information literacy instruction | Research expertise: EDISJ (equity, diversity and inclusion, and social justice) in libraries, information-seeking behaviours of visible minorities, international students and multicultural populations
Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian Libraries
Office: A221 justinh@uvic.ca 250-721-8276
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: English, media studies, public administration | Supports: information literacy, news literacy, qualitative research methodologies, literature searching, literature reviews
Director, Kula: Library Futures Academy Libraries
Office: 410 huculak@uvic.ca 250-472-4970
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: project management, community engagement, digital exhibits | Scholarly expertise: library history, digital scholarship, digital humanities, book history, modernism, periodical studies, trauma-informed archiving
Web Integration Librarian Libraries
Office: 407 caitlinkeenan@uvic.ca 250-721-8274
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: library web platforms, user experience (UX) research |Scholarly expertise: UX in libraries, digital accessibility, information architecture, content strategy, UX research methods, decolonization in web design, diachronic syntax (linguistics)
Head, Copyright and Scholarly Communication Libraries
Office: 248 ikehoe@uvic.ca 250-472-5017
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: copyright, open access, open education, open scholarship, research impact, author rights, knowledge mobilization
Associate University Librarian, Advanced Research Services Libraries
Office: A318a skhair@uvic.ca 250-721-8238
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: library assessment, data curation, research data management
Law & Social Sciences Librarian Libraries
Office: A144 (Fraser Building) jlampreau@uvic.ca 250-472-4972
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: Indigenous laws, Indigenous governance
Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian Libraries
Office: A217 mlines@uvic.ca 250-472-4236
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: European studies, Greek & Roman studies, history, medieval studies, political science, philosophy | Scholarly expertise: book history, bookbinding
Status: On leave
Humanities Librarian Libraries
Office: A219 yingliu@uvic.ca 250-721-8277
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: Pacific and Asian studies, religious studies | Supports: knowledge mobilization, community engagement, project management, digital exhibitions, inclusive teaching, critical information literacy | Scholarly expertise: Asian Canadian studies, Asian languages acquisition, oral history
Head, Engagement and Learning Libraries
Office: A233 clundrigan@uvic.ca 250-721-6090
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: undergraduate student engagement and learning, Learning Commons
Health Data Librarian Libraries
Office: A211 sarahmcgill@uvic.ca 250-721-8271
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: Island Medical Program (IMP), Speech-Language Pathology program, neuroscience | Supports: research data management (RDM), UVic Dataverse / Borealis, data curation, qualitative research analysis with NVivo | Research expertise: data including health data sources, evidence synthesis and systematic reviews, grey literature, open science and preprints, citation software
Law Librarian Libraries
Office: A146 (Fraser Building) sarahfmiller@uvic.ca 250-721-8561
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: law
Associate University Librarian, Reconciliation Libraries
Office: 405 rymoran-aulr@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Indigenous affairs, decolonization, reconciliation, community engagement, archival research, oral history, podcasting, stewardship, memorialization, critical and social memory studies
Associate Archivist Libraries
Office: A005d jmorriso@uvic.ca 250-721-8258
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: records management, digital preservation, privacy and access | Scholarly expertise: archival studies/science, UVic history
Associate University Librarian, Engagement & Learning Libraries
Office: A235 kemunro@uvic.ca 250-721-6161
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: undergraduate student engagement and learning
Education, Continuing Studies, & Health Librarian Libraries
Office: A215 jmussell@uvic.ca 250-472-5090
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: child and youth care, health information science, nursing, social work, continuing studies
Business & Law Librarian Libraries
Office: A205 enickerson@uvic.ca 250-721-8566
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: business, law
Health Research Librarian Libraries
Office: A318e zahrapremji@uvic.ca 250-853-3268
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: public health; social dimensions of health; physical therapy; exercise, physical health education (EPHE) | Supports: evidence synthesis (systematic and scoping reviews), health information literacy, inclusive search practices, grey literature, research data management, pre-registration, citations | Research expertise: information retrieval methods for evidence synthesis, and searching trial registries, preprint sources, and open access databases
Transgender Archives Metadata Librarian Libraries
Office: A111b mikerad@uvic.ca 250-853-3610
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: Transgender Archives, digital exhibits metadata
Science and Data Librarian Libraries
Office: A318d nrochlin@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: chemistry, math and statistics, physics and astronomy
Education Librarian Libraries
Office: A225 prussell@uvic.ca 250-721-8259
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: education, Indigenous education | Supports: language revitalization | Scholarly expertise: history of British Columbia; settler colonialism in Canada; histories of childhood, gender, and race in Canada up to 1900; history of the book, particularly educational publications; women in the transatlantic world up to 1900
Librarian Research Associate Libraries
Office: 417 christianschmidt@uvic.ca 250-721-8231
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: AI literacy, open science/scholarship | Scholarly expertise: information literacy, citizen science, AI in libraries
Director, Collections & Digital Infrastructure Libraries
Office: 244 dseeman@uvic.ca 250-721-8284
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: collections, metadata, digital collections, linked data, cataloguing, digital libraries
Fine Arts Librarian Libraries
Office: 404 cwalde@uvic.ca 250-853-3613
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Subject librarian for: theatre, writing, visual arts, art history and visual studies | Supports: grants, awards, book arts | Scholarly expertise: artists' books and multiples, contemporary visual art and culture, research creation, poetry
Director, Special Collections & University Archivist Libraries
Office: A005b ljwilson@uvic.ca 250-472-4480
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Supports: university records, archives (various subject areas related to rare and unique collections: BC history, transgender / gender studies, local feminist history, fine and performing arts, photographic history, environmentalist and environmentalism) | Scholarly expertise: UVic history, archives in Canada, digital records preservation issues, decolonizing approaches to Indigenous archives stewardship