Biography

Dean Fang received his master’s degree in computer science from Fairleigh Dickinson University and another master’s degree in library and information science from Rutgers, where he specialized in digital libraries. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with minor in Mathematics from Kean University. He was one of the co-PIs of a federal grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to expand the law library's Housing Law and Policy Digital Archive in 2011.  In 2012, he was promoted to Librarian II with tenure. He has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on digital library and video repository. He also served as the Chair of the AALLc and the Chair of MAV-SIS of AALL as well as on the archive committee, technology committee, and the executive board of NJLLA.