Gross named Vet Med Library Director

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret (Peggy) Gross to the position of Director, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Library of Veterinary Medicine effective 3 June 2019.

In this role, Gross will be responsible for the leadership and management of the Veterinary Medicine Library including planning, budget, personnel, and facilities management. She will develop and manage collections and services in support of the university’s veterinary medical programs and related disciplines and work closely with College of Veterinary Medicine administrators, faculty, staff, and students to support their research and scholarship and promote strategic initiatives. She will provide expert services across the research lifecycle, including information discovery, data management, visualization, application of research tools, and scholarly communication.Gross will design and teach specialized workshops and seminars and, in partnership with university research administration, advise researchers in evaluation of grant opportunities and in meeting funder and university requirements for providing public access to research publications and data.

Gross currently serves as an informationist at the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University. In this role, she collaborates with researchers and teaches students in the schools of Public Health and Medicine. She is the liaison to three departments in the Bloomberg School of Public Health: International Health, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She is also the lead informationist for the 17 departments within Oncology. Gross has been recognized with a cross-appointment as an adjunct associate faculty member in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health where she teaches courses in online searching, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis. Prior to her time at Johns Hopkins, she served as Branch Campus Supervisor of a Learning Resource Center at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Gross holds the Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Master of Arts in English from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with a minor in Comparative Literature and significant coursework in Biochemistry from California State University (Long Beach, CA). Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health has given Gross the Excellence in Teaching Outstanding Faculty Recognition in each of the past two years.