Patricia Guardiola has been named the new director of the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Guardiola came to Penn in 2015 as assistant director of the library and has distinguished herself in her reference and instruction services and her management of the operations of the Fisher Fine Arts Library. Before coming to Penn, she was a Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship and then Reference and Instruction Librarian in the Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University. 

In her new role, Ms. Guardiola will be responsible for planning and oversight of the services, facilities and collections of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, which serves the Weitzman School of Design and the SAS department of the history of art. She will also be responsible for the Materials Library and the Common Press, a collaborative program funded by the Penn Libraries, the Weitzman School of Design and Kelly Writers House.