Robin Kear is a Liaison Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh. She works with the English, Film & Media Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies departments. She has recently co-edited a book titled ‘Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community’. Internationally, she has co-published and presented research on the attitudes of global new library professionals for IFLA and BOBCATSSS conferences. Robin served as an information services intern for the United Nations in Nairobi, Kenya, and has taught in Vietnam and Kazakhstan. She was named an American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leader and a Library Journal Mover and Shaker. Robin has served extensively in the University of Pittsburgh’s Faculty Senate and received the 2020 Senate award for outstanding service to the university. She is currently chairing the ALA Conference Committee and serves on the ALA Center for the Future of Libraries Advisory Group.

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