Victoria K. Swinney, PH.D.
Director of the Dulaney-Browne Library
Library
Biography
Victoria Swinney has served as director of the Dulaney-Browne Library since 2004. She seeks to support teaching and learning with great spaces to study and collaborate; great people to help finding and using information and spaces, from finishing projects through printing help; and wide range of quality information resources in print and online.
She holds a Ph.D. in Library Science from Texas Woman’s University as well as a Bachelor Arts degree in Spanish with a minor in German from Wartburg College, a diploma in Hispanic Studies from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Arts in Spanish from Middlebury College.
Her experience in libraries started with a visit to the Ardmore, Oklahoma public library on the day she and her mother left the hospital after her birth. Her interest continued to grow from regular storytime attendance to working in her junior high, high school, and college libraries. After completing her M.L.I.S., she worked 14 years in the Cameron University Library in a wide variety of areas, including reference, bibliographic instruction, serials, cataloging, and acquisitions.
