Professional Responsibilities

• As Medical Sciences Library (MSL) director, provides leadership in planning, budgeting, developing, implementing, and evaluating user-oriented, technologically advanced information services and resources for MSL.  
  
• As Associate Dean, serves as a senior manager for the University Libraries to create the overall vision, guide the process of setting priorities, and develop strategies for achieving them. 

Education

• MLS, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1975
• BA, State University of New York at Fredonia, 1972

Affiliations

• Distinguished Member, Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP)
• Medical Library Association (MLA)
• South Central Chapter / Medical Library Association (SCC/MLA)
• Veterinary Medical Libraries Section / Medical Library Association
  

Research Interests

• building, organization and management of library collections
• literature of veterinary medicine
• organizational development 
  

Selected Papers

• Joe Jaros, Esther Carrigan and others.  "Saving the Elusive Past for the Future: A Case Study in Collaboration of Veterinary Libraries."  Journal of Agricultural and Food Information 9:4 (2008), 329-336.
• Resnick, Taryn, Ana Ugaz, Nancy Burford, and Esther Carrigan.  "E-Resources: Transforming Access Services for the Digital Age."  Library Hi-Tech 26:1 (2008), 141-156.
• Goodwin, Susan, Nancy Burford, Martha Bedard, Esther Carrigan and Gale Hannigan.  "CMS/CMS: Content Management System/Change Management Strategies."  Library Hi-Tech 24:1 (2006), 54-60.
• Carrigan, Esther, Robin Sewell, Mary Dabney Wilson and Anne Highsmith.  Enhancing the Use of Electronic Resources on the Texas A&M Universities Website: Herding Electronic Resources into Subject Groupings.  Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists.  Onderstepoort, South Africa: University of Pretoria (2006), 63-66.  Also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ais.up.ac.za/vet/icahis   
  

• Carrigan, Esther and Nancy Burford.  The Road to an Electronic Journal Collection: Using Data to Pave the Way.  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists.  Budapest, Hungary: Szent Istvan University, Veterinary Science Library (2003), 16-20.  Also available on the World Wide Web at http://library.univet.hu/icahis/icahis.htm.
• Carrigan, Esther, Martha Bedard and Nancy Burford.  Managing Web Content for the Texas A&M University Libraries.  Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists.  Budapest, Hungary: Szent Istvan University, Veterinary Science Library (2003), 28-31.  Also available on the World Wide Web at http://library.univet.hu/icahis/icahis.htm.