Education
Master of Arts (Educational Technology & Instructional Design), San Diego State UniversityMaster of Library Science, Indiana University
Bachelor of Arts (English), Berea College
Biosketch
Galadriel Chilton is dean of the University Library at UMass Lowell. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, she served as director of Collections Initiatives for the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC), where she led collaborative collection programs and initiatives across thirteen premier research institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and Columbia.She brings to the role a deep commitment to inclusive, staff-centered leadership and a passion for ensuring equitable access to information and resources. Her work has spanned shared print and digital collections, open access advocacy, ethical licensing, and infrastructure design for collaborative governance.
Before her time at IPLC, Galadriel served as the head of Licensing and Acquisitions at the University of Connecticut and held positions at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago Kent College of Law. She is a first-generation college graduate and an advocate for the role academic libraries play in advancing student success, faculty research, and institutional mission.
Currently, she is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, and serves on the library advisory board for the Open Journals Collective. She previously served on advisory boards for the Open Negotiation Education for Academic Libraries and Connecticut’s Mansfield Public Library. Additionally, she has taught library science classes for the University of Wisconsin iSchool.