Annis, Ethan, MLS

Senior librarian with 17 years of experience leading departments in libraries, managing projects and budgets, fundraising, negotiating employee/vendor contracts, hiring, and supervising. I have supervised more than 60 individuals, including professional librarians, paraprofessionals and support staff, plus managed access services, acquisitions, reference/instruction, archives, and technical services departments. In addition, I led a 14-library system, with a $1.2M budget, supervising a staff of 16 for the Redwood City School District. Under my stewardship, the system had the highest circulation on record. In addition, I worked in IT for 6 years and as a systems librarian/web developer for Dolby Laboratories. Recently, I led an initiative to integrate technology and digital library resources for a liberal arts college for incarcerated students. With this experience, I am equally adept at working with print resources and technology.

I am committed to professional development and diversity, equity, and inclusion. From 2018-2024, chaired CARL-ACRL's mentorship program and served on the association's Board of Directors. I also chaired Dominican University of California's Faculty Development Committee from 2019-2021. I led successful efforts to make programming more inclusive and provided more programs on DEI per year than in any previous years.

Dominican University of California

50 Acacia Ave.

San Rafael, CA 94901