Emily Stambaugh  

Bowman Library wishes Emily Stambaugh, Dean of Library Services, a fond farewell as she embarks on a new career adventure in K-12 librarianship. Dean Stambaugh has served on Menlo College’s leadership team bringing energy and new directions in information literacy, student-led library services, collection development and information technologies. She is grateful to have been a part of the College and to create opportunities for our small, bold, diverse community of students. 

Dean Stambaugh looks forward to working with a similarly very diverse community in the Bay Area to manage a school district library. As Madeleine Albright once said, "women's careers come in phases and stages" and Dean Stambaugh is grateful for the opportunity to bring her considerable expertise to K-12 to work with the Covid-19 pandemic generation(s), including her sons, as they make their ways through a disrupted education into college. She, among many working women worldwide, were called to extraordinary service during the pandemic. She is glad for this rare K-12 opportunity to contribute to the upcoming generation and their courageous teachers. 

Dean Stambaugh is also seriously excited to reduce her carbon footprint. Her commute will be a ten minute walk! She will miss the books on tape and podcasts during her commute to Menlo College. And she will miss the fantastic, engaged students, faculty, staff and librarians at Menlo College. 

Dean Stambaugh leaves the library with very skilled and promising librarians: Randi Proescholdt, Jennifer Pesek and Amy Lee. They will see to the daily operations of the library, student services, classroom instruction, collection management, technical services and publisher relations until a replacement can be found.