Karen Stoll Farrell

Karen Stoll Farrell's work is to support the IU community within the scholarly communication and publishing cycle. She guides the work of the department which includes journal and book publishing, Open Educational Resources, management of the institutional repository, research impact, and support for open access initiatives and collections. She also currently serves as the Director of the Dhar India Studies Program in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Stoll Farrell holds an M.A. (A.B.D.) in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.L.I.S. from Wayne State University, and a B.A. in Anthropology with minors in Religion and Women's Studies from Kalamazoo College. She began her work in libraries as the South and Southeast Asian Studies Librarian at IU Libraries in 2014. In 2016, she additionally became the head of the Area Studies Department in the Libraries. After a one-year term as interim head of the Scholars' Commons, Stoll Farrell took on the role of interim head of the Scholarly Communication Department in 2020, eventually becoming Director of Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing.

Stoll Farrell's research is primarily in the realm of disability and accessibility, scholarly publishing, and management. Her two most recent publications are:

• Stoll Farrell, K. (2025) Emergent Strategies to Build Transformative Library Teams. Library Leadership and Management, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/llm.v39i1.7696
• Cohen, R., Cooke, P., Holt, M., Lounsberry, M., Roga, E., Squires, J., Stoll Farrell, K. (2025) Autistic librarians in the academic library hiring process. College & Research Libraries, 86(5). https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26933/34830

She has a co-edited volume coming in 2026: Cohen, R. & Stoll Farrell, K. (Eds.). (2026). Autistic Academic Librarians: A Guide for Success. Association of College and Research Libraries. [forthcoming]

Locally, Stoll Farrell was elected to serve as president of the Bloomington Library Faculty Council in 2019 and 2024. She currently serves as an elected member of BLFC. Nationally, she recently served as the project manager of the C4DISC Toolkit for Disability Equity project.

Stoll Farrell completed Copyright X Certification from Harvard Law School, and is a certified Scrum Product Owner. She has completed a number of management courses including ACRL's Libraries Management Skills Institute I and II and DeEtta Jones' Inclusive Manager's Toolkit.

Outside of IU, Stoll Farrell serves as a co-leader for a local Girl Scout troop and occasionally writes book reviews ("Review: Harmattan Season"; "Review: The Incandescent").