Indiana's Thorin to Take Helm at Syracuse

-- Library Journal, 08/16/2005

Suzanne Thorin, Ruth Lilly University Dean of University Libraries and associate VP for digital library development at Indiana University (IU), will become university librarian and dean of the library at Syracuse University. Thorin, who became Indiana dean in 1996, is credited with a number of achievements, including the construction of an off-site storage facility for 2.7 million volumes, a state-of-the-art book preservation laboratory, and a renovation of the Herman B Wells Library. In addition, she has overseen, with other administrators, the construction of an immensely popular 27,000-square-foot Information Commons (IC). So popular was the first commons that the university created another, smaller version to accommodate quiet study.

Thorin is also credited with enhancing IU's emerging digital initiatives by establishing IU's Digital Library Program, which has secured more than $5 million in federal funding. To recognize her contributions in the digital arena, Thorin, in 2003, was given the additional title of associate VP for digital library development. The job at Syracuse begins on October 1. Thorin will take over from interim librarian William Garrison. Peter S. Graham, an IU alum and university librarian at SU since 1998, died August 11, 2004, after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 65.