Leading in Libraries: Perspectives from Lived Experiences

Maha Kumaran is a faculty librarian at the University of Saskatchewan. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with an MLIS degree in 2005 and received her PhD from the University of Saskatchewan in 2023. She has authored several papers and published three books. Her research and practice focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion in libraries, particularly Canadian and academic libraries.

Beth McNeil is dean emerita and Esther Ellis Norton professor of library science at the Libraries and School of Information Studies at Purdue University. She served as dean of libraries at Purdue from 2019 to 2025 and at Iowa State University from 2015 to 2019. She received a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and earned master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of Illinois. She is the author of several books and journal articles on aspects of library leadership and management.