Dean of Libraries Brian Sullivan receives 2024 Mentor Award from SUNYLA
Brian Sullivan, Dean of Libraries at Alfred University, recently received the 2024 Mentor Award from the State University of New York Librarians Association. The award honors and encourages the efforts and dedication of individuals in the library field who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to the mentoring of members of SUNYLA.
Sullivan was nominated for the award by his colleagues, who in a letter to SUNYLA praised him as “a compassionate and visionary leader, a mentor for us as librarians and our biggest advocate.”
He additionally was praised for his “compassionate leadership” and for building “an environment of trust where we feel comfortable asking for feedback or advice on any issue that we bring forth. He is always happy to lend his expertise and will gladly coach us through difficult situations we encounter as supervisors, team leaders or in other areas of our work. Brian is also always willing to listen when we want to talk through ideas for research and scholarship or discuss obstacles and challenges that we encounter.”
As Dean of Libraries, Sullivan is responsible for the management, operations and supervision of Alfred University’s Herrick and Scholes Libraries. Sullivan graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He followed his undergraduate work with graduate studies in Theology at the Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan College, and Library Science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received his Master’s degree in Library Science in 2003.