Patricia A. Schoknecht

Pat Schoknecht has been the Vice President for Information & Library Services and the College Librarian since 2018. She works with the entire Bates community to provide services that meet the ever-changing needs of today’s students, faculty and staff. Prior to Bates, Pat was the Chief Information Officer and Assistant Vice President for Business Services at Rollins College, arriving in 2009. She has also served as the Director of Information Technology at Wagner College from 2005-2009 and was the founding Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology at the University of Richmond from 2000-2005. Pat began her professional career as a faculty member at Rutgers University after completing her Ph.D. at Cornell University and a USDA post-doc at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center.