As Director of Libraries at MIT, Ann Wolpert oversees MIT’s distributed library system and MIT Press. She also has oversight of Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation. Prior to joining MIT, she was executive director of library and information services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience previous to Harvard included management of the Information…
Anne Bromer is the founder and co-owner (with her husband) of Bromer Booksellers Inc. This leading antiquarian bookshop was founded over 40 years ago and specializes in the art of the book, highspots of first edition literature, early children’s books, and miniature books. Bromer authored Strings Attached, a biography of Dorothy Abbe, the printer and…
On March 28th 2008 in Amherst, MA Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, associate professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, delivered a lecture titled “The Googlization of Everything.” The event was part of the third annual Digital Quadrangle Series Colloquium and was sponsored by the UMass Amherst Libraries, Office for Research, Center for…
Stephen Abram is the current President of the Special Libraries Association, the past-President of the Canadian Library Association, and Vice President of Innovation for the SirsiDynix Institute. The scope of his professional activities led Library Journal to recognize him as a “Mover and Shaker”, one of the “key” people influencing the future of libraries and…
Susan Crowther ’03 is library director/teacher at Chicopee Comprehensive High School Library in Chicopee, MA. She started as a school librarian at E.N. White Elementary School in Holyoke, MA in 2002. Previously, she was a library and information services assistant and textbook manager at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. A graduate of Stockbridge School of…
Kathy Coolidge ’04 is the law librarian at Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas, LLP. She manages all aspects of library operations, conducts legal research, and provides information services as requested by the firm’s 43 attorneys, 7 paralegals, and other staff in two offices. Prior to joining Bulkley, Richardson & Gelinas in December 2002, Kathy was associated…
Anne C. Moore, the Associate Director for User Services at UMass Amherst spoke on March 15th 2008 at the Simmons College GSLIS West campus in South Hadley, MA. Ms Moore discussed the far reaching success of the Learning Commons at Umass Amherst and how that success has changed the role of librarians on campus. Simmons…
