At Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, we celebrate the many contributions of the faculty and staff who make the Libraries the destination for scholarly information, creative inquiry, and intellectual collaboration across disciplines, propelling the significance, reach, and impact of the university.
STEM Librarian and Director of Open Science Program Melanie Gainey and STEM Librarian Huajin Wang are co-authors on a preprint in BioHackrXiv describing the software prototypes developed at the CMU x NVIDIA Federated Learning for Biomedical Applications Hackathon in January.
STEM Librarian Haoyong Lan was featured in an article titled “Three Distinctions Higher Ed Needs to Get Right About AI” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, along with two other CMU faculty members.
STEM Librarian Kristen Scotti published a paper in the journal of College and Research Libraries titled “Python for All: A Library Workshop for Bridging AI Literacy and Coding Skills."
Social Sciences Librarian Sarah Young contributed to two new publications related to evidence synthesis. "The Evidence Synthesis Institute: Building a High Impact Training Program and Supportive Community for an Emergent Area of Librarianship" published in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice and "CiteSource: An R package for data-driven search strategy development and enhanced evidence synthesis reporting" in Research Synthesis Methods.
The 2026 ACRL University Libraries Section (ULS) Outstanding Professional Development Award was awarded to the Evidence Synthesis Institute, a bi-annual training program co-organized by Young and colleagues at the University of Minnesota and Cornell University. The award recognizes library, archives, or museum workers whose contributions to providing professional development opportunities for academic libraries have been especially noteworthy or influential.