Dale Askey
University Librarian
University of British Columbia
Dr. Dale Askey currently serves as University Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Previously, Dale was the Vice Provost (Library & Museums) and Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta. Prior to this, he served as the Associate University Librarian for Library & Learning Technologies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he also occupied the role of Administrative Director of the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship.
He has filled a wide range of roles in libraries, primarily in collection development, public services, Web services, and information technology management. After starting out in libraries and IT at Washington University in St. Louis, he embarked on his professional library career at the University of Utah, with subsequent stays at Yale University and Kansas State University before joining McMaster. In 2009-2010, he was a visiting professor in electronic publishing and multimedia at the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, teaching in their library science, publishing, and museum studies programs.
He earned his PhD in 2018 from Humboldt University in Berlin, his MLIS from the University of Missouri in 1998, and holds a BA from Colorado College and an MA from Washington University in St. Louis in German language and literature.
Presenting at the following sessions
In 2024, CRKN and Érudit celebrated ten years of the Partnership for Open Access and developed a new five-year agreement to champion diamond open access publishing in Canada and support a collective, equitable path for knowledge dissemination. This session will provide an update on the first 18
Mozart/Chopin room
