Curriculum Vitae Download CV Skills & Expertise Change Management Library Renovation and Construction Faculty and Staff Mentoring and Leadership Development in Tenure-Track and Union Environments Organizational Development Technology Visioning and Implementation Fundraising for Library Development Strategic Planning Psychological Safety for Organizations Progressive Leadership Experience 2025 - Present Associate University Librarian AUL and Librarian 2 Rutgers University -- Newark Rutgers University Libraries Leadership Team Newark, NJ 07102 2016 - 2024 Dean of Library Services Professor and Dean Mississippi University for Women Columbus, MS 39701 2012 - 2016 Coordinator of Research Services Associate Professor Mississippi State University Libraries Mississippi State University Starkville, MS 39759 Education 2002 - 2005 Simmons University Master's in Library and Information Science 1991 - 1996 Wellesley College Bachelor's of Arts in English Literature

Welcome A Bit About Me Associate University Librarian—and Head of John Cotton Dana Library (Rutgers-Newark), I am the co-author of A Starter's Guide for Academic Library Leaders. With more than 20 years in progressive library leadership roles, I believe that psychological safety is essential to cultivating a culture of innovation and experimentation. With deep experience in change management and transformational leadership, my work centers the patron experience by investing in library workers. I create safe, fertile places for amazing things to grow. StrengthsFinder Top 5: Strategic, Individualization, Ideation, Arranger, Analytical CV Contact Work

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Work Psychological Safety I both publish on and present on strategies for organizations from top to bottom to recognize unsafe teams and build toward teams that fail forward using psychological safety tenants. The latest presentation to the right, The Fearless Organization , references Dr. Amy Edmondson's 2018 book . Her seminal article at Harvard Business Review is "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams ." Powers, A., & Fife, D. (2025). Psychological Safety in Libraries: It’s a Team Sport. College & Research Libraries News, 86(3), 104. doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.86.3.104 AI for Leadership Academic Leaders are faced with decisions about how to manage the whiplash changes in information environments. These range from managing expectations across campus to providing ethical leadership to allocating resources for new technological investments. I have begun presenting on these new challenges in order for leadership to explore paths forward. I believe the essential work that the library must do in this environment is to educate our constituencies on what is "under the hood." This is the same work we have done with databases, Google, OPACs, etc. In using AI (which is a given), they need to know what they are and aren't searching.