Simmons College

Research Interests: Human resource management, Future scenarios, academic library organizational (and cultural) transformation. Leadership theories: Shared, transformational and visionary

Jon E. Cawthorne is currently Associate University Librarian for Public Services at Boston College (BC) Libraries. Jon arrived at BC in January 2011, from the position of Interim Dean of Library and Information Access at San Diego State University; he had been serving in this role since September, 2008. Prior to this appointment, Jon was Associate Dean responsible for all computing, public and technical services operations of the library on a diverse campus that supports 35,000 students. He holds an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland at College Park and a B.A. in English and Radio Communication from Evergreen State College. Prior to arriving at San Diego State, Jon worked at the Detroit Public Library briefly as the Interim Deputy Director and as the Assistant Director for the Main Library. Jon has worked in libraries at the University of Oregon, Ohio State University and the Congressional Research Service within the Library of Congress. Interested in leadership development throughout his career, he attended the Snowbird Leadership Institute, the Frye Leadership Institute and programs from ALA's Emerging Leaders, Association of Research Libraries' Leadership Career Development Program and Research Library Leaders Fellows. He also attended the 2007 class of Senior Fellows at the University of California, Los Angeles. Within the American Library Association, he served on the Spectrum Advisory Committee and chaired the Lippincott Award committee. He remains active in Educause as a member of the program planning committee for "Information Futures: Aligning Our Missions" Seattle 2007.