William H. Walters, Executive Director of the Library, has served as dean, professor, librarian, data manager, research consultant, accreditation liaison officer, and interim director of information technology at Cornell University, St. Lawrence University, Menlo College, the City University of New York, and the Providence VA Medical Center. He holds a PhD in sociology (demography) from Brown University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
His current research focuses on scholarly communication, academic librarianship, AI in higher education, nonprofit management, and assessment. His work has appeared in more than 40 journals including those of the Royal Geographical Society, the American Library Association, IEEE, the Medical Library Association, the Association for Information Science and Technology, the Gerontological Society of America, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Regional Science Association International.