2025 PASCAL Member Conference

John Barnett is Dean of the Library at the University of South Carolina Upstate, a role he has held since June 2021. Prior to joining USC Upstate, from 2015 until 2021, Barnett served as executive director of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), an academic library consortium headquartered in Toronto, Canada. He has experience in management and leadership, collection development, scholarly communications, editing and publishing, systems implementation, and reference and instruction. He is currently a board member of the American Library Association’s International Relations Committee and chair of the Ad Hoc Leadership Institute Committee of the Southeastern Library Association (SELA).