Sara Kjellberg holds a PhD in Library and Information Science and is currently the Director of Malmö University Library, a position she has held since 2018.
Her professional background combines leadership in change and development processes within academic libraries with research focused on digitalisation and scholarly communication. She has extensive experience in strategic work across the higher education sector and has served on various steering and advisory boards.
At Malmö University, she contributes to the digital transformation, not least through her involvement in shaping the university’s Agenda for Digitalisation 2024-2027. She has also played a key role in the development of the university’s core facility for research data and data analysis, now hosted at the University Library. She supports the university’s efforts to strengthen cultural collaborations and is one of the initiators of Mau Reads, a book club format aimed at promoting reading among students. For five years, she chaired the Advisory Board for a Sustainable University, and Malmö University Library became the first in Sweden to sign the Green Libraries Manifesto.
From 2013 to 2017, she served as Research Support Services Coordinator at Malmö University Library while also affiliated as a researcher at Lund University. Her research interests include information practices, particularly scholars’ engagement with emerging digital communication genres such as blogs and networked tools, as well as how research data management is included in scholarly practices. She has also been teaching and supervising in the ALM Master’s Programme (Archival Science, Library and Information Science, and Museology) at Lund University.
She is an active voice in library development, contributing regularly as a speaker, panelist, and moderator at national and international conferences. Collaboration and partnership are central to her professional ethos, and she is actively involved in several national and regional networks that support the advancement of libraries and open knowledge infrastructures. From mid 2025 she serves as Chair of the LIBER AI Taskforce.