We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ye Li joined Cornell University Library as the Director of the Science and Agriculture Libraries on July 29.
Ye has been the Librarian for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering at MIT since 2019. Prior to that, she worked as the Scholarly Communications and Instruction Librarian at the Colorado School of Mines, and as the Chemistry Librarian at the University of Michigan. While at MIT, Ye led a variety of teams, both within the library and across campus, seeking opportunities to collaborate and bringing people together for research and learning. Committed to open science and reproducible research, Ye has developed and led new projects and initiatives, such as Carpentries@MIT and library support for text and data mining, machine learning, and AI in science and engineering.
Ye is active in research and her work is reflected in a substantial list of peer-reviewed publications, as well as dozens of presentations and poster sessions. The recipient of many professional awards, Ye serves as a trustee of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, is a past chair of the Chemical Information Division of the American Chemical Society, and is a member of the Research Data Alliance, as well as serving in numerous additional national and regional associations and various publisher advisory groups.
Ye holds a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Beijing Normal University, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Iowa, and an M.A. in Library and Information Science, also from Iowa.
Please join us in welcoming Ye to Cornell University Library and the Cornell community! And stop by our Kickoff Coffee event on Tuesday, August 27, between 11am to 1pm in the Mann Library lobby for a chance to win a free reusable coffee mug and meet Ye in person!