Rosemary Pleva Flynn

Biography

Rosemary Pleva Flynn, C.A., is the Associate Dean of Library & Information Resources at the Chester Fritz Library (CFL) at the University of North Dakota (UND). Ms. Flynn is a Certified Archivist (C.A.) and an active participant in several professional organizations, including the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA), the Midwest Archives Conference, and the North Dakota Library Association. She has taught workshops for many of these organizations. Ms. Flynn currently serves as ACA’s President (2026–2027) and previously was the Regent for Exam Administration (2019–2023). She is Co-chair of SAA’s Dictionary Working Group, which publishes the online Dictionary of Archives Terminology (https://dictionary.archivists.org). As the Academy of Certified Archivists representative to the Nexus LAB: Leading Across Boundaries project advisory board, she was a coauthor of the Nexus LAB: Layers of Leadership and an editor of the Nexus LAB: Curriculum. Ms. Flynn is an alum of the Archives Leadership Institute and received her Masters of Library Science (M.L.S.) degree from Indiana University, an M.A. degree in Social Science and a B.S. degree in History from Ball State University, and a graduate capstone certificate in User Experience Design from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to joining CFL, Ms. Flynn was the Principal Librarian and Archivist at the Energy & Environmental Research Center at UND. Ms. Flynn also served as Project Archivist at Indiana University for Phase II of the Indiana University Electronic Records Project.