About

Rachel E. Vacek has been a librarian for over 10 years and is an active member in the professional fields of digital and web librarianship.

Rachel Vacek, Photo by Cindi Trainor

Rachel is currently the Head of Web Services at the University of Houston Libraries, in Houston, Texas, where she manages the Libraries’ website, mobile services and many other tools that constitute the Libraries’ virtual presence. She enjoys the challenges of streamlining and integrating web-based access to library resources and services as well as providing innovative tools for the Libraries in support of the teaching, research and learning needs of the University of Houston community.

She speaks regularly on library and web technologies at national conferences like Internet Librarian, the American Library Association (ALA) Annual and Midwinter Conferences, and the Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum. In 2007, she was chosen to participate in ALA’s Emerging Leaders Program that was designed to help develop the next generation of library leaders.

Rachel is originally from West Chester, Ohio (just north of Cincinnati) and earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton and her master’s degree in library and information science (MLIS) from the University of Pittsburgh.

Her areas of interest and expertise include: