Lisa Macklin

Lisa A. Macklin is both a librarian and a lawyer who retired from Emory Libraries as the Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian in April 2026.  Previously, Lisa served as Associate Dean for Research, Engagement, and Scholarly Communications with responsibility for collection management, subject librarian teams, instruction and engagement, and scholarly communications.  Lisa was also the director of the Scholarly Communications Office, which launched in 2007.

Her interests include the application of copyright law to teaching, research and publishing; transformations in scholarship and publishing, including new models of scholarship in digital form; and the Open Access movement. She was elected to the Steering Committee for SPARC and the Board of Directors for University Information Policy Officers (UIPO).  Lisa also served as PI on a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create the Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship.