Rachel Vacek
Head of Design & Discovery, University of Michigan Library
Rachel Vacek is the Head of Design & Discovery at the University of Michigan Library where she oversees the public-facing interfaces across the library’s web presence. She manages a team of program managers, front-end developers, user interface designers, content strategists, and user experience and accessibility specialists. She regularly teaches workshops and speaks at local and national library conferences on library UX, discovery interfaces, service design, and library leadership. Rachel was a 2007 ALA Emerging Leader, a 2014 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, and the 2014-2015 Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) President. For more about Rachel, see her website at http://rachelvacek.com/ or follow her on Twitter (@vacekrae).
