Student Success and Engagement Librarian
Ery Caswell is a Student Success & Engagement Librarian and liaison to Human Rights at the UConn Library. He assists with library outreach programming, information literacy and research instruction, and student success and support initiatives for undergraduate students. Prior to working at UConn, he was a public librarian who facilitated creative writing groups, designed community education programming, and fostered library partnerships with human services organizations. In 2023, he was an inaugural fellow of the Radical Librarianship Institute at the UCLA California Rare Books School. In 2020, he worked with the San Francisco Public Library’s Department of Jail & Reentry Services, providing reference by mail and reentry support to incarcerated people. He manages a small mobile social justice library that circulates at related education events with justice-informed community organizations and coalitions. Ery has an MLIS from the University of Rhode Island and a BA in Writing and Politics from Ithaca College. Beyond the stacks, he enjoys hiking, gardening, participating in writing groups, and wandering around queer digital archives.