Gina Siesing

Gina Siesing is Chief Information Officer and Constance A. Jones Director of Libraries at Bryn Mawr College. At Bryn Mawr, Gina leads a multi-disciplinary Library & Information Technology Services organization that supports faculty and students in maximizing the benefits of technology for learning and scholarship, enables discovery and analysis of research materials and rich special collections, and facilitates administrative functions College-wide. Gina's work focuses significantly on strengthening our consortial relationships within the Tri-College Consortium with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and across the higher education community.

Gina is a strong advocate for the critical benefit of liberal arts education in the 21st century, both in terms of graduates' preparedness to contribute and lead in diverse professional fields and in terms of the values of mindful and engaged citizenship that are core to liberal arts learning and practice. Prior to joining the Bryn Mawr community, Gina directed the Educational & Scholarly Technology Services group at Tufts University, working with a phenomenal team to enable innovative and meaningful use of technology across academic contexts. Gina also served on the University IT Leadership Team and University Library Council at Tufts and co-stewarded the Tufts Digital Library program.

Gina has been involved with NERCOMP, serving as a past Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Board of Trustees and as co-dean with David Wedaman and Colleen Wheeler of the Learning Organization Academy; and with EDUCAUSE, most recently serving as column editor for the EDUCAUSE Review E-Content column and as EDUCAUSE Representative on the CNI Steering Committee. Gina also served as President of the Board of Directors of the Oberlin Group of Libraries.

Prior to working at Tufts, Gina held positions at Harvard University and The University of Texas at Austin.