Rutgers University Libraries Welcome Paige Morgan as Assistant Vice President for Collections and Digital Strategies
Universitywide
Paige Morgan has joined Rutgers University Libraries as assistant vice president for collections and digital strategies. She began serving in the role on June 23.
Morgan brings strengths in the areas of digital strategies, assessment, and technical infrastructure. She comes to Rutgers from the University of Delaware Library, where she has served in various capacities such as the head of the digital initiatives and preservation department and as the digital publishing and copyright librarian since 2019. Prior to that, she was the digital scholarship librarian and scholarly publishing officer for the University of Miami Libraries.
Among her many accomplishments at the University of Delaware, Morgan wrote a successful grant for over $250,000 to fund additional technical infrastructure and labor for the library’s digitization efforts. She provided strategic guidance for revamping services for the University of Delaware’s institutional repository, UDSspace. She also led a significant upgrade of the institutional repository software and developed a model for acquiring newly published research by University of Delaware authors for the repository. She provided leadership and vision for a multifaceted department providing research data services, digital scholarship and data visualization, digitization, digital preservation, and more. Beyond the departmental level, she collaborated with the University of Delaware Press to support journal publishing and the development of the Open Educational Resources initiative.
Morgan is a recognized leader in her field, reflected by her numerous invitations to teach workshops and deliver invited presentations at numerous national and international conferences. This is further reflected in her service activities in preeminent professional organizations at the national level, such as the Modern Language Association, the Association of Research and College Libraries, and the Digital Libraries Federation.
Morgan’s deep experience is closely aligned with many of the Libraries’ priorities in supporting Rutgers’ educational, research, health care, and public service missions. This includes reinforcing the Libraries' digital presence to highlight many unique, distinctive collections; championing open access; fostering emerging technology trends in the areas of collections and digital strategies; and enriching and providing access to the Libraries’ holdings to effectively serve patron and community needs.
She holds a doctorate in English and textual studies and a master’s degree in English from the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in classics, English, and theater from Seattle Pacific University.