New STM Librarian appointed in unique collaborative role with STU

St. Thomas More College (STM) Dean Tammy Marche announced Wednesday, May 10 the appointment of Martin Nord as STM’s College Librarian. The Assistant Librarian tenure-track position will commence July 1, 2023.

Nord received the recommendation of the Search Committee, based on the valuable experience and vision for a Catholic liberal arts academic library he will bring STM’s Shannon Library. He holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Dominican University (River Forest, Illinois) and is completing a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science (LIS) from Western University in 2023.

With several years of experience as an academic librarian for Catholic and liberal arts colleges, including archival and museum work, along with digital projects, Nord feels this background has served to help “inform his vision of what a Catholic liberal arts academic library is and can be.”

Nord’s Ph.D. research focuses on “the complex relationships between selves and documents, with implications for our collective memories and lived ethics in community.” He has published and presented on information literacy, document theory, the information society, holistic research methods, and virtue ethics.

STM’s College Librarian role will also include a new collaboration with the Saskatoon Theological Union (STU). STU is an association of three theological colleges located on the University of Saskatchewan (USask) campus, “formed to facilitate a cooperative and ecumenical approach to the task of theological education.”   In collaboration with STU library technicians, Nord will advise the STU on many library resource and service facets, while fostering valuable linkages to the STM library and other libraries in the USask system.

Nord’s stated vision for the library as “a space in which learning, responsibility, and care for each other are all part of the same process” echoes what STM is about. Welcome to STM, Martin Nord.