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Gillian M. McCombs
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Gillian M. McCombs is Dean and Director of Central University Libraries at SMU with responsibility for the Fondren libraries, the Science and Engineering Library, the DeGolyer Special Collections, Hamon Arts and Institute for the Study of Earth and Man libraries, the Center for Media and Instructional Technology, and library services at SMU-in-Legacy and Fort Burgwin in Taos, N. M.
McCombs has published extensively in the areas of organizational culture, public and technical services, leadership and management, computing, and historical children's literature. She has won numerous awards in the library profession and currently serves on the editorial boards of College & Research Libraries and Internet & Reference Services Quarterly.
McCombs began her professional career in England as the music librarian at Huddersfield Public Library in her native Yorkshire. Her professional career in the U.S. has taken her from Washington, D.C., where she worked at the Landscape Architecture and Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, as well as such federal libraries as the National Library of Medicine, the Federal Reserve, and the Department of the Interior, to the University of Albany, SUNY, where she worked for 16 years before joining SMU in 1998.
McCombs received a Bachelor's degree in French and European Literature from the University of Warwick and a Master's degree from the Leeds School of Librarianship, She received a Master of Public Administration degree from State University of New York at Albany in 1995.
