Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith retired recently as Michael and Eugenia Wormser Director of Libraries at Colby College.  Prior to Colby, Smith was Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas, where he also taught copyright in the School of Law.  After he finished a law degree in 1995, Smith founded the office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication at Duke University, where he worked for a decade.  Throughout his career, Smith has focused on how libraries could navigate copyright, especially as they advocate for open access and reform in scholarly publishing.