Jerome Yavarkovsky holds the title of University Librarian Emeritus of Boston College, after having served as the College's Librarian for thirteen years. In October, 2009, he became the Interim Executive Director of the Boston Library Consortium.

Prior to retiring from Boston College in June, 2008, Jerome was Director of the New York State Library in Albany for ten years, the only state library member of the Association of Research Libraries. He has an additional seventeen years of university library administrative experience, mostly at Columbia University as Systems Librarian and Assistant Director of Libraries for Planning, but also as Dean of Libraries at Adelphi University. In total, Jerome served in management positions in large academic research libraries for more than thirty years.

From early in his career, Jerome has contributed as participant and leader in national, regional and institutional activities through professional associations, consortia and organizations of all kinds. He has chaired and served on numerous committees, task forces and working groups, and is currently on the editorial board of the journals "College and Research Libraries" and "Portal: Libraries and the Academy."

Education: Jerome has a B.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in Management from MIT, and an M.S.L.S. from Columbia University.