Geoffrey Robert Little
Professional Biography
On July 22, 2024, I began my five-year term as Western University's Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian. Previously, I was Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication at Concordia University and Founding Director of Concordia University Press. I began my career in academic libraries at Yale University.
I have published and presented widely, and my work has been supported by grants or fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Bibliographical Society of Canada. In 2022-23, I was the Patricia Fleming Fellow in Bibliography and Book History at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Scholar at Massey College. I am currently the chair of the Amherst College Press advisory board.
Education
- BA Honours, History and English Literature, University of Toronto
- MISt, University of Toronto
- MA, History, Concordia University
Research Interests
My research interests are varied. I have published articles or chapters on Florence Nightingale's childhood library; newsprint production and consumption in North America in the first half of the twentieth century; philanthropic library programs during the Great Depression; education for French Canadian librarians before 1960; the history of publishing and electronic books; and collection development in academic libraries.
My scholarship has appeared in American Periodicals, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Information & Culture, the Oxford Companion to the Book, the Journal of Academic Librarianship, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, among other venues.
