Lynn Sutton has been appointed associate dean of the Wayne State University Library System effective immediately. She has been with Wayne since 1988, and she has served as interim associate dean of the Library System since 1999.

"Lynn and I have similar service philosophies, and I'm extremely pleased that she'll be joining the administrative team on a permanent basis," said Dean of Libraries Sandra Yee. "She brings a solid history with the WSU Library System and an excellent understanding of today's challenges in library and information resource management."

Sutton, a resident of Clinton Township, joined the Library System as director of the Science and Engineering Library. In 1996, she agreed to serve as the director of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library, which was built the following year, and became interim associate dean of the WSU Library System in August of 1999.

"I'm really looking forward to helping the Library System serve its customers better," she said. "Ill be doing more work with librarians, staff and working groups to make that happen."

Sutton received her bachelor's degree in classical Greek from the University of Michigan in 1975. She completed her master's degree in library and information science at U of M in 1976, and went on to work as a hospital librarian over the next decade, working at hospitals in Chicago and Detroit. "My library background was primarily medical until I came to Wayne State," she said.

Sutton is enrolled in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies doctoral program at WSU in addition to her duties at the Library System. Sutton said that the associate dean's job is in many ways a behind the scenes job working with faculty and librarians as well as handling promotion and tenure work.

Wayne State University is a premier institution offering more than 350 academic programs through 14 schools and colleges to more than 31,000 students in metropolitan Detroit.

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