After a year and half without a library dean, Sacramento State is about to have one.

Tabszeera Dosu, whose first day is Monday, will act as the leader of the library, hold responsibility for internal management and ensure the library’s quality of service, among other things.

“What I hope to bring to Sac State is collaboration and innovation,” Dosu said.

Joe Sheley, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, said Dosu was chosen out of four final candidates.

Before her appointment as the library dean, Dosu was the director of Financial Services and Business Operations for the library at the University of Virginia.

Dosu is transfering from UOV with a positive attitude and said she hopes to make Sacramento her home. She said she is impressed with the California State University system.

“The CSU system does a lot of innovativethings,” Dosu said.

Prior to working at UOV, Dosu served as the director of Library Services at Butte Glenn Community College from 1997 to 2004.

Dosu attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she earned a master’s degrees in business administration and library and information science.

Sheley said Dosu possesses substantial finance experience, which will be beneficialin helping with the university’s financial dealings.

“She is in tune on how to work through difficult budget times in a way that gives us a positive outcome,” he said.

Sheley said Dosu also has good communicationand management skills, which is important for today’s libraries.

“She is experienced in working with multiple groups in working through policy,” Sheley said.

Tamara F. Trujillo, senior associate dean of the University Library, took on the positionof acting director in addition to her own after previous library dean, Kerry Webb, resigned from his position in May 2006 .

Trujillo said she is excited and relievedto finally have a library dean on campus because she found it difficult to take on both positions.

“We got through it the best we could,” she said. “But It’s not the same as having a dean.”

Evelyn Bigelyaizen can be reached at [email protected].