Fox appointed Collections & Research Librarian for Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Hillary Fox to the position of Collections & Research Librarian for Agricultural & Environmental Sciences effective 12 September 2019.

Fox will join the Collections & Research Strategy department where she will lead collaborative collection management in the agricultural and environmental sciences. She will provide support for global research and access to government information in a variety of subject areas and expert services for faculty, staff, and students in core and emerging areas of scholarship such as agricultural data analytics, research data management, and open research practice. She will collaborate with faculty and students across the lifecycle of learning and research, linking high-quality content with emerging tools and technologies.

Fox currently serves as Science Reference Librarian and Head of Reference at the University of West Florida (UWF) Libraries where she coordinates the reference department’s scholarly communications initiatives including oversight of the Institutional Repository. She serves as the institution’s Open Education Resources (OER) point person, leading initiatives for awareness and adoption of OER, aligning practices with the institution’s strategic plan. She serves as a subject specialist and faculty liaison for the health sciences and STEM, including environmental sciences, and helps UWF faculty raise their scholarly profile and assess their research impact through bibliometrics.

Previously Fox was Science Reference Librarian and Collection Development Coordinator at the UWF Libraries, where she provided instruction and research support for faculty and students in STEM and health sciences and coordinated collection development, serving as chair of the Collection Development Committee. Fox has also served as a Library Research Assistant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Fox earned both the Master of Science in Library Science and the Bachelor of Arts in Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Open Textbook Network’s Certificate in OER Librarianship in 2019. With several faculty members from the School of Nursing, she presented Diagnosing information literacy among pre-licensure nursing students at the Conference on Teaching and Learning, Mobile, AL, 2018.