Heather James

Heather James, M.S.I.S., M.F.A., serves as the Dean of Foley Library since August 2024; she was the Interim Dean of Library for ten months prior. Heather joined Gonzaga as the Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources at Foley Library in September 2020. Prior to Gonzaga, Heather was the Coordinator for Digital Programs at Marquette University’s Raynor Library, leading the institutional repository, data management services, and copyright guidance for the campus. She began at Marquette as Assistant Librarian with liaison roles for English, Chemistry, Biology, and Biochemistry after having worked at University of Minnesota, Morris as the Instruction and Circulation Librarian and having been an ARL Career Enhancement Program Fellow at Odegaard Library, University of Washington.