Kelly A. McCusker she / her / hers , Principal Instructor
Collection Development Program Lead Librarian
Collection Development and Strategies Department
Role in the Library
As the Collection Development Program Lead Librarian, Kelly is responsible for overseeing the strategic development, management, assessment, and communication of collections with students, faculty, and staff on Auraria Campus. Kelly manages and leads the five-person unit; develops and supports new initiatives; promotes resources, services, and knowledge both internally, and externally; and works directly with users to learn about their collections needs. Kelly reviews and selects materials for the Business, Criminal Justice, Education, Library Science, and Public Administration collections.
Professional Affiliations and Service
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Core (Division of ALA)
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Education
- MPA, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
- MS in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL
- BEd in Primary Education, York University, Toronto, ON
- BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Select Publications
McCusker, K. & Rainard, M. (2025). Too Broad and Too Narrow: One library’s Experience with Approval Plans. Library Resources & Technical Services, 69 (2). https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.69n2.8434
McCusker, K. & Vandagriff, S. (2022). SCIG: University of Colorado Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Interest Group. College & Research Libraries News, 83 (11). https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.11.491
Ostendorf, D., Cantrell, M., Thomson, J., Glazier, R., Vandagriff, S., McCusker, K., Browning, S. and DiVittorio, K. (2020), CU Faculty Voices: CU system libraries support open access. CUConnections, April 23, 2020.
O'Brien, N. P., Allen, M. P., Burnette, P., Ingold, C., McCusker, K., & Sheehan, B. (2015). Merging the social and health sciences step by step. In S. Holder and A. Butler Lannon, Difficult decisions: closing and merging academic libraries (pp. 49-71). Chicago, IL: Association of College & Research Libraries.
