Catherine Quinlan joined the University of Southern California as dean of the USC Libraries on August 1, 2007. She came to USC after a decade at the University of British Columbia, where she headed a library system encompassing more than 300 full-time staff members distributed over and more than 21 sites. Beginning in 2004, she also served as managing director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, a $74 million facility located on the UBC campus that is a prototype for academic information management and dissemination. Prior to joining UBC, she spent seven years as director of libraries and chief librarian at the University of Western Ontario, and as an adjunct professor in the university’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Previously, Quinlan oversaw the health sciences library at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was a member of the adjunct business administration faculty. Quinlan has published extensively on the importance of information literacy and has lectured at educational institutions around the world. She also has served on the board of directors of numerous professional organizations including the Canadian Association of Research Librarians and the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance. Quinlan holds an MBA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a master of library studies degree from Dalhousie University and a bachelor of music degree from Queen’s University. At USC, Quinlan—in partnership with the USC Marshall School of Business—has initiated the establishment of a new, innovative, and entirely online master’s degree in management of libraries and information science (MMLIS). The USC MMLIS welcomed its first cohort of students in May, 2013. She also launched the first-ever USC Libraries Discovery Fellowship, a program that brings to USC a distinguished thinker, artist, or technologist to engage library collections in surprising ways and encourage USC students to find inspiration, creativity, and discovery in the libraries. As of January, 2012, Quinlan is the inaugural holder of the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean’s Chair of the USC Libraries.