Cline, Nancy (Nancy M.)

Nancy Cline is a native of Chambersburg, PA. She earned her A.B. in English in 1968 from the University of California-Berkeley and her M.L.S. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1970. Nancy Cline began her career at Penn State in 1970 as a documents librarian and was named head of the Governments Document Section in 1971, a position she held for nine years. She went on to serve as chief of the Bibliographic Resources Department until 1984, when she became assistant dean and head of bibliographic resources and services until 1988 when she became Dean of University Libraries. During her tenure at the University Libraries, endowments for the Libraries increased to nearly $9 million and she played a pivotal role in the successful completion of a capital campaign that raised $14 million in gifts for a new building. She served on or was chair for several committees at Penn State, including the Commission for Women, Council of Academic Deans, the University Council on Continuous Quality Improvement, the President's Budget Task Force, the Committee on Woman and Minority Concerns and the Equal Opportunity Planning Committee. She left Penn State in September 1996 to become the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College.