Debbie McCarthy
Associate Librarian, Catalog and Database Maintenance Librarian

MBA, New Mexico State University
MLIS, Texas Women's University
BS, Economics, Lycoming College
On July 1, Debbie McCarthy became the Catalog and Database Maintenance Librarian for the Baylor University Libraries. She is originally from Jackson, New Jersey, and graduated from Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, with a degree in Economics in 1983. After three years in the U.S. Army Finance Corps and a year in banking, she attended Texas Woman's University and completed her MLS in 1989 while serving in the Acquisitions Department of the Blagg-Huey Library. She worked in technical services roles in academic libraries at the University of Texas at El Paso, Xavier University, St. Olaf College, and New Mexico State University, where she earned an MBA in 2003. In 2004, she was appointed Assistant Librarian and Head of Technical Services at the University of Wyoming Libraries. McCarthy served as interim associate dean for the UW Libraries on several occasions before being named Assistant Dean of Resource Discovery and Management in 2018. In 2023, she retired early from UW and decided to return to librarianship to work with the Baylor Libraries.