Librarians & Staff

Administration
Josh Petrusa
Josh Petrusa

Currently Interim Director, Butler Libraries

BA Media Studies / DePaul University, 2004

MS Library & Information Science / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007

Member:

Resource Sharing Committee, Indiana State Library

Shared Collections Committee, Academic Libraries of Indiana

Collection Management Team, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana

Association of College & Research Libraries

American Library Association

Resource & Systems Strategies
Vanessa French
Vanessa French
Head of Resource & Systems Strategies
Sarah Damery
Sarah Damery
Resource Sharing Associate
Nancy Everett
Acquisitions Associate
Annette Muyumba
Annette Muyumba
Library Associate / Collections & User Services Associate
Jennifer Coronado
Jennifer Coronado
Scholarly Communication Librarian – Assistant Professor

Phone number: 317-940-9549

Cale Erwin
Cale Erwin
Scholarly Communication Associate

I serve Butler University Libraries as the Scholarly Communications Associate in the Collections and Digital Services department. I am responsible for the support, maintenance, and uploading of materials into Digital Commons @ Butler University, the institutional repository for Butler University. Through our institutional repository, I assist in facilitating and distributing the research and creative output of the faculty, staff, and students to the larger academic community. Additionally, I work closely with the Scholarly Communication team, including Scholarly Communications Librarian Jennifer Raye and Digital Scholarship Associate Julian Cabiya, focusing on digital initiatives, including open educational resources and digitization efforts for Butler University.

Instruction
Sally Neal
Sally Neal
Head of Instruction

Curriculum vitae available at Digital Commons @ Butler University.


Jenni Burke
Jenni Burke
Science Librarian – Assistant Professor

Jenni provides research and instructional support in science information literacy to the College of Liberal Arts & Science. She earned her Masters in Library Science from Texas Woman’s University and a BA in English Composition from Texas A&M University. She holds teacher certifications in the State of Colorado and a Comptia A+ IT certification. Before coming to Butler, Jenni has served in various roles in corporate, academic, and public libraries focused on technology, STEM programming, instruction, and technical services.

Brittany Heer
Brittany Heer
Health Sciences Librarian – Assistant Professor

Brittany provides research, educational, and instructional support in health sciences information literacy to the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Communication Science and Disorders, and within First Year Seminar courses. She earned her Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BA in French from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Before coming to Butler, Brittany worked in many roles at the Strauss Health Sciences Library at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado for over eleven years.

Teresa Williams
Teresa Williams
Business Librarian – Associate Professor
Sarah Ward
Sarah Ward
Performing and Visual Arts Librarian / Assistant Professor
Special Collections
Gayle O’Hara
Gayle O'Hara
Head of Special Collections – Assistant Professor
Megan McKee
Special Collections Assistant
Janice Gustaferro
Janice Gustaferro
Metadata Librarian – Associate Professor
Lisa Bennett
Lisa Bennett
Julian Cabiya
Digital Scholarship Associate
Public Services
Joel Atkinson
Joel Atkinson
Head of Public Services

Emeriti Faculty

Dr. Sally Childs-Helton – Professor Emeritus, 2022
Email: schildsh@butler.edu

Barb Howes – Associate Professor Emeritus, 2021
Email: bhowes@butler.edu

Sheri Stormes – Professor Emeritus, 2020
Email: sstormes@butler.edu

Lewis Miller – Professor Emeritus, 2012
Email: lmiller@butler.edu

Virginia Rumph – Associate Professor Emeritus, 2015
Email: vrumph@butler.edu