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Beau Case was appointed inaugural dean of University Libraries at the University of Central Florida in 2021. Prior to UCF, he was dean of University Libraries and director of the University of Toledo Press, with oversight of the main and medical libraries as well as university archives, and was responsible for campus records management.
Previously, Dean Case was head of Arts & Humanities at the University of Michigan; a foreign language and area studies librarian at The Ohio State University; worked in digital humanities at Indiana University; and held several appointments in private and public museums. He began his career in communications and marketing at the UCLA Library.
He holds degrees in English from UCLA, in Comparative Literature and in Library Science from Indiana University, and in Education from the University of Toledo. He also had additional studies in Germany and a fellowship in Moldova. Dean Case has taught foreign languages at the undergraduate and graduate levels and publishes in library and information science.
When not in the library, he can be found in his home library immersed in art, books, electronics, games and music.