Middle Tennessee State University has selected Bonnie J. Allen to head the James E. Walker Library starting March 1st. She is presently the dean of libraries and professor of library science at the University of Montana in Missoula. She will succeed Don Craig, who retired from MTSU after 38 years of service.
“My immediate goal is to get to know MTSU well, to get to know the culture of the institution, which also seems like a family to me,” says Allen, who says she also wants to develop the Walker Library’s learning commons and space for graduate students.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in art history and her master’s degree in library and information science from Indiana University. Allen also earned an MBA from Portland State University. She is a native of Bloomington, Indiana. She will be moving to Murfreesboro with her daughter, Quinn Walsdorf, who will receive her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Montana in January.