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Date 6-29-06
Contact David Tisdale 601.266.4499
WITH PHOTO
Hattiesburg—University of Southern Mississippi
Gulf Coast Library Director Edward McCormack has been chosen to
serve as interim university librarian for the university’s Hattiesburg
campus, as the university prepares to conduct a national search
to replace University Librarian Kay Wall.
Wall recently retired from the university to take a similar position
at Clemson University in South Carolina.
McCormack joined Southern Miss in 1993 as director of the Southern
Miss Gulf Coast Library and has also served as an adjunct instructor
in the university’s Department of History. “It’s a big challenge,
and I’m looking forward to it,” McCormack said of his new assignment.
He will continue to oversee library operations for Southern Miss
Gulf Coast teaching sites in Gulfport, Jackson County, the Center
for Higher Learning at Stennis Space Center, and Keesler Air Force
Base, as well as in Meridian.
McCormack said he plans to work closely with faculty, staff and
students across all academic disciplines to help make Southern Miss
libraries the “learning resource hub of the university.” He said
he also plans to advocate for university library resource sharing
between the state’s Institutions of Higher Learning in order to
best serve the needs of all academic constituents.
Wall joined Southern Miss University Libraries in 1982 as an assistant
reference librarian and was appointed university librarian in 2002.
She praised Southern Miss library faculty and staff for “striving
to work for excellence every day.” “I leave with mixed emotions,”
Wall said. “I’m very proud to have worked with them (library faculty
and staff), and I know that their work, under Ed’s guidance as the
university seeks a permanent replacement, will continue to flourish.”
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Ed McCormack
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