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Mimi Calter

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Contact

Department
Name
Mimi Calter
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Job Title
Vice Provost and University Librarian
Phone Number
(314) 935-5400

As Vice Provost and University Librarian, Mimi Calter oversees WashU Libraries and its staff of expert librarians, curators, and archivists. She is charged with strengthening print and digital collections, developing programming to support research, teaching, and learning, and collaborating with scholars on and off campus.

Before joining WashU in September 2021, Calter worked at Stanford Libraries for 16 years. During her time there, Calter helped develop the Libraries’ $84 million budget, lead its 400-person staff, expand digital technologies and repositories, and manage capital projects, including the relocation of the second-largest campus library and development of the David Rumsey Map Center.

Calter earned her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and graduate degrees in business administration and library and information science from Drexel University. 

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