SMIRC Speaker Biographies

Jeanne Pavy has been an academic librarian for 30 years, and currently serves as the Scholarly Communication & Collection Development Librarian at the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans. In this role she advocates for open scholarship, supports students and faculty in a range of scholarly communication issues and manages the institutional repository, ScholarWorks@UNO.

In addition to an MLS from the University of Alabama, Jeanne holds a PhD in English from Emory University. She has published and presented on a range of scholarly communication topics, including open educational resources and affordability, open access policies and collection development, and consortia and institutional repositories. She is committed to advancing open knowledge and is excited to participate in SMIRC’s 10th anniversary, having presented at the first conference in 2015.