<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/story/dan_burgard.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>08/31/2026</pubDate><title>Dan Burgard leaves UNT Health with happy memories and impressive legacy</title><summary>As new students arrive at UNT Health Fort Worth they settle in at Lewis Library like it’s an alternative living room where they study, collaborate, socialize — and have access to thousands of scholarly resources.  By the time they graduate, they will have spent hundreds of hours in the library. But the person who’s spent the most time here is University Librarian Dan Burgard, whose official start date at Lewis Library was June 1, 2000. </summary><author>Tammy Gomez</author><image><img src="/newsroom/_binaries/Dan-Retire-088.JPG" alt="placeholder"/></image><tags><tag>Gibson D. Lewis Health Library</tag></tags></item>