Vicki L. Gregory

Gregory received an A.B. in History in 1971 from the University of Alabama (UA), and a M.A. in history, also at UA, in 1973. Remaining at the University of Alabama, she went on to complete the Graduate School of Library Service's M.L.S. degree in 1974. Finally, she received her Ph.D. in communication, Information and Library Studies from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1987.^[4]

Gregory began her professional career at the Auburn University at Montgomery Library in 1976 as an audio-visual librarian and a supervisor for the Acquisitions Department, then Coordinator of Technical Services, and finally Head of the Department of Systems and Operations. She finished her time at the library in 1988, by which time she had become a tenured librarian.

In August 1988, she became an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida (USF). She was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1994, then professor in 2000. That same year she was made director of the School of Library and Information Science, a position she held until 2007. She was a professor at the USF School of Information.^[4]

Gregory was active in many professional associations. She was president of Beta Phi Mu, the international honor society. She was Treasurer for the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). She served the American Library Association (ALA) as a Member-at-Large for the Library Research Roundtable Steering Committee, and she was the ALA Councilor for the Florida Library Association (FLA). Gregory has served as Chair of the ALA Committee on Accreditation from 2010 until 2012 and was a member of the committee from 2007 until 2009. She served on the ALA Notable Book Council. Gregory was director of the FLA from 2001 until 2003, was a chair of the Florida ASIS&T, Chair of ASIS&T's Special Interest Group - Library Technologies (SIG-LT), a chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Committee, chair of the ACRL Research Committee, and a Secretary of the Library Research Round Table Steering Committee.^[3] She served as Florida representative to the Southeastern Library Association.

Gregory died on January 4, 2026, at the age of 75.^[5]

• Beta Phi Mu (Library and Information Science Honorary Society)
• 1985 Recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries and Institute for Scientific Information Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
• 1987 Selected as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America
• 1995 Florida SUS Teaching Incentive Program Award
• 1996 Florida Library Association Transformers Honor Roll
• 2003 USF President's Award for Faculty Excellence
• Phi Alpha Theta (History Honorary Society)
• 2007 Outstanding Alumni, University of Alabama, Graduate School of Library and Information Science^[4]
• 2014 Watson Davis Award, American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)