Larry P. Alford has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian.

He joins Temple from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was Deputy University Librarian. As Vice Provost for Libraries, Alford will oversee all of Temple’s 17 libraries in a federated system that includes the Paley Library, the Law Library and the Health Sciences Libraries.

Alford assumes his new position at Temple on Feb. 15, 2005. Read more about Larry Alford in the recent Temple News article.