Associate University Librarian for Research & Engagement
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, New Jersey, United States
John Kromer is the Associate University Librarian for Research & Engagement at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He previously served as the STEM Division Head in the Arizona State University Library, the Physical Sciences Librarian at Brown University, and the Physical Science and Engineering Librarian at Miami University.
John received master’s degrees in library and information studies and chemistry, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and French language & literature from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. John was the 2019 chair of SLA’s Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division and currently co-leads the PAM Industry Partners Relations Committee. He has served on SLA’s Membership Advisory Council and Students and New Professionals Advisory Council (SNPAC). He was named a 2017 SLA Rising Star.
John has published and presented on information literacy and collection evaluation in chemistry and on deploying open educational resources in a first-year engineering course. His current research focuses on electronic research notebooks and early career awards in librarianship. In his free time, John plays trombone in the Montclair Community Band and hockey with the New York City Gay Hockey Association. He is “cat dad” to Bernadette and Cody.
John is a candidate for the 2023 SLA Board of Directors.
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Saturday, July 30, 2022
8:00 AM EDT
