Thomas Peters

Springfield, Missouri

Dean of Library Services

Tom Peters is the Dean of Library Services at Missouri State University. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Dean for Strategic Technology Initiatives at Milner Library at Illinois State University in Normal. Tom has worked previously at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC, the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago), Western Illinois University in Macomb, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Minnesota State University at Mankato, and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He also was a rogue librarian for 8 years, doing business as TAP Information Services. Tom did his undergraduate work at Grinnell College, where he majored in