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Eric T. Meyer has been appointed dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information and will begin his new job on Aug. 1. He comes to Berkeley from the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been dean of the School of Information since 2018.

Throughout his career, Dean Meyer has championed interdisciplinary scholarship, effectively bridging gaps between diverse academic fields and uniting researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds. Dean Meyer’s ability to foster interdisciplinary collaboration will be a cornerstone of his leadership as dean of the I School.

Michael Buckland, professor emeritus at the School of Information, is the recipient of this year’s Emeriti of the Year Award, which honors an emeritus/a whose “second” career begins after retirement. 

Buckland’s illustrious career at UC Berkeley began almost five decades ago when he joined the faculty at what was then known as the School of Librarianship. He served as dean from 1976 to 1984 and oversaw the renaming of the school from the School of Librarianship to the School of Library and Information Studies in 1976.