Staff
Matt Huculak, Director
Dr. Matt Huculak is founding Director of the Kula: Library Futures Academy at the University of Victoria Libraries. He is a 2024 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker” award winner and 2019 team winner of the Professional & Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) award from the Association of American Publishers in the category of “Innovation in Publishing.” He holds a PhD in English Language & Literature and an MLIS with a concentration on archives and preservation. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2717-1112
Christian Schmidt, Strategic Initiatives Coordinator
Christian Schmidt brings more than a decade of experience in academic libraries to his role as Strategic Initiatives Coordinator with Kula: Library Futures Academy at the University of Victoria Libraries.
A German-Canadian librarian, Christian holds a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the iSchool at Humboldt University in Berlin and a Bachelor of Arts in the same field from the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig. Before joining UVic, he held positions in Germany including Head of Acquisitions and Collections at Chemnitz University of Technology Library.
christianschmidt at uvic dot ca
ORCiD (0000-0001-9116-223X)
LinkedIn
Mastodon
cschmidt.science