Brian Lym

ALA Divisions:

Brian Lym, Direcfor for Employee Engagement, Development & Belonging, University of Oregon Libraries
Describe yourself in three words:

Curious, strategic, collaborative.

What are you reading (or listening to on your mobile device)?

What I'm reading now that inspires me and supports my work and my well-being: Emergent strategy: sharping change, changing worlds by adrienne maree brown and Chasing Spring by Ernest Wertheim.

Describe ACRL in three words:

Advocacy, community, values.

What do you value about ACRL?

ACRL has provided me the foundation for my career in academic librarianship. No matter where I have worked and what positions I have held, ACRL has been the constant and homebase. A place where I've found a community. The conferences are especially rewarding--they are opportunities for me to reconnect with colleagues from near and far, and from different phases of my career, all of us together in support of our continued learning and growth.

What do you as an academic librarian contribute to your campus?

In my role, I not only support organizational development within the libraries. I work closely with the Division of Equity and Inclusion. Supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion is threaded through my job, and doing EDI work now requires us across campus to be in supportive community--so that all of us who are tasked with the work can be nourished and be sustained as we navigate these times. I play a pivotal role in shared governance and faculty affairs in the libraries, where the librarians have "career faculty" status.

Specifically, I serve as ex-officio to the Library Faculty Personnel Committee, which has shared governance responsibilities. My prior experience with tenure and promotion review as a library faculty member and dean at other academic libraries have come in very handy here!

In your own words

I look forward to giving back to ACRL since it has been so supportive for my career development. I want to pay forward, to support the growth and learning of colleagues in our field, wherever they are.

Title:Director for Employee Development, Engagement, and Belonging

Job Function:I'm responsible for researching, promoting, and facilitating best practices in organizational culture, with the overall aim to diversify representation with organization, enhancing employee growth, and expanding practices of inclusion and belonging.

Workplace:University of Oregon Libraries

Location:Eugene, Oregon