Laura
Clark Hunt

Dr. Laura Clark Hunt has served in libraries for over ten years. Her experience has involved both public and academic libraries, and her roles focused on management, programming, and collection development roles. Her dissertation focused on emergent literacy in public libraries and was celebrated as one of the most notable dissertations for 2017 by American Libraries https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/05/01/2017-notable-dissertations/.

 

She was a Fellow at the University of West Florida from 2017-2018, working with a statewide agency to assess public outreach programs throughout Florida. This project focused on stakeholder perceptions of programs. Her expertise in program assessment has varied from children’s programming in libraries to underwater programs for dive masters. Her last position before coming to USM was as an academic library director at the University System of Georgia.

 

She is well-positioned to pursue research in libraries. Collaborative research projects are of particular concern to her because they offer opportunities for interdisciplinary discovery and impact. Her research interests include library assessment, privacy, library users with disabilities, and library management.