Kristin Hart, a Queens College graduate, has served since 2017 as Chief Librarian and Associate Dean for Queens College Library. She is charged with "reimagining" the library as space and setting strategic priorities in line with emerging trends in academic librarianship like data services, open access, digital scholarship and digital archives, and making.

Prior to this position, she was the Library Director at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, where she overhauled the library space in historic Fort Schuyler, helped create a robust archives program, and spearheaded open access and OER initiatives.