Vivian Lewis is the university librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She came to McMaster in 1991 as a government information specialist. In 2003 she became the associate university librarian. She holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Harvard Institute for Academic Librarians, the Frye Leadership Institute, and the ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows program. Her expertise in strategic planning, library assessment, and information literacy led the successful implementation and design of McMaster’s award-winning Mills Learning Commons.