Kim M. Ricker

Kim M. Ricker is the head of the GIS/Data Center at Rice University’s Fondren Library. She started her career in marketing for an academic publisher before transitioning to librarianship.  Ricker has worked in academic libraries since 2004, winning Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers Award in 2007 and Rice University’s Shapiro Staff Innovation Award in 2016.  She holds an MLS and a GISP (Geographic Information Systems Professional) certification.