Kenneth J. Varnum

Ken Varnum has been working with digital information technologies since he became a librarian in 1994. Starting in November 2015, Ken is the Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics. In this role, Ken is responsible for the library's discovery interfaces (the Library Search discovery interface), delivery interfaces, and the library's evolving and emerging analytics infrastructure.

From 2007-2015, he was the Web Systems Manager at the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor, where he managed the people and projects associated with the library's website and discovery interfaces. From 2004-2007, he was Associate Librarian and IT Manager at the Edwin Ginn Library at The Fletcher School, Tufts University's graduate program in international relations, where he worked on a number of digital information projects and teams with colleagues from other Tufts libraries. Before coming to the Ginn Library in 2004, Ken spent seven years at the Ford Motor Company library in Michigan managing the library's intranet sites and web-based information services.

Ken received a dual Master's in Information & Library Science and Russian Studies from the University of Michigan in 1994 and a dual BA in History and Russian language from Grinnell College in 1989. His first book, Drupal in Libraries, was published by ALA TechSource in 2012. He edited Lorcan Dempsey's "The Network Reshapes the Library" (2014). Ken has edited four books: the LITA Guide "The Top Technologies every Librarian Needs to Know" (2014), "Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content" (2016), "Beyond Reality: Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality in the Library (2019) and the LITA Guide "The New Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know" (2019). He blogs sporadically at rss4lib.com and can be found on Twitter at @varnum.