Lorraine J. Haricombe

Lorraine J. Haricombe is dean of the University of Kansas Libraries, which serves 25,000 students and 1,300 faculty. One of the founding members of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI), Haricombe also serves as the Provost's designate for open access implementation at KU. She is a member of the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Steering Committee, as well as the South African Research Library Consortium’s Executive Management Team. Prior to joining KU in 2006, she was dean of libraries at Bowling Green State University. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in library and information science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.