Shan C. Sutton

Shan C. Sutton became Dean of University Libraries at the University of Arizona in February 2017, after serving in the Vice Dean position since 201-5. His prior positions include Associate University Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication at Oregon State University, and Associate Dean and Head of Special Collections at the University of the Pacific, where he curated the f ohn Muir Papers and the Dave Brubeck Archive. Sutton's scholarship and service focus on open access and the role of academic libraries in the dissemination of scholarship. He is active in organizations concerned with scholarly communication, having served on the Steering Committee of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, as well as Chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Research and Scholarly Environment Committee. Sutton played essential roles in the passage of open access polices at the University of Arizona and Oregon State University, and he authored the ACRL Policy Statement on Open Access to Scholarship by Academic Librarians.

Sutton holds a master's degree in Library Science from the University of Arizona, and a master's degree in Humanities from Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio). His Humanities thesis, an anthropological and comparative religion study of the Grateful Dead and the Deadhead community, was published in the bookDeadhead Social Science (Altamira Press, 2000).