Ruth Wallach is the Academic Director of the Master of Management in Library Information Science (MMLIS) program and the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Humanities Libraries Division at the USC Libraries. Her previous positions at the USC Libraries include Head of the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library and Library Subject Specialist in Slavic languages, comparative literatures, and gender studies. Ruth has authored and co-authored book chapters, articles, and conference presentations on topics of relevance to academic librarianship, information literacy, professional mentorship, and situating library information science pedagogy within diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism, as well as several books on Los Angeles architecture and urban history based on primary source materials drawn from the specialized collections of the USC Libraries.
Ruth earned her BA in economics and MLS in library science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She also holds an MHC from the School of Architecture and an MPAS from the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC. She is a member of the 2017 cohort of the Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the 2018 cohort of UCLA Senior Library Fellows.
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