skip to content

SCOTT KENNEDY

Chair of the Academic Liaison Program


Responsibilities


Scott Kennedy
University of Connecticut
Homer Babbidge Library
Research & Instruction Services
Level 1
369 Fairfield Way Unit 2005 RI
Storrs, CT 06269-2005

Scott.Kennedy@uconn.edu
Voice: 860.486.2522
Fax: 860.486.6100

 Scott is responsible for overseeing the University Libraries' Academic Liaison Program together with the Liaison Advisory Team. Responsibilities of the team include:
  • recommending liaison appointments for academic departments and centers
  • advising and supporting liaisons in their efforts to enhance services for the University community
  • marketing and promoting the Liaison Program within the University community
  • identifying opportunities for new types of academic partnering
  • developing programs that enhance liaison skills and services
  • evaluating the Liaison Program on a regular basis
Background  
Scott coordinates Research & Instruction Services as well as the Academic Liaison Program for the University of Connecticut Libraries. He has been in libraries ever since he can remember. His teenage years were spent in London, England, which affected his sense of humour and his spelling. In his wander years, he conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Animal Behaviour in Gruenau, Austria; taught English at the Berlitz School in Vienna; and spent one endless summer on an ornithological expedition to the arctic island of Spitsbergen in search of the elusive barnacle goose. His undergraduate degree is from Tufts University, his Master of Library Science degree from Southern Connecticut State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut after completing a dissertation on the late poetry of W.H. Auden. Before taking his present position, he was Director of the Jeremy Richard Library at the UConn campus in Stamford; and immediately prior to that, Chair of Central Reference Services at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Scott served as the Humanities Referee for the eleventh edition of the American Library Association's Guide to Reference Books and as editor for the sixth edition of Reference Sources for Small and Medium-sized Libraries. He is married to the library's conservator, which keeps him young.