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Harvard University Library Notes / January 2006 / No. 1329
New Appointments
Corinna Baksik
Data Loads Systems Librarian (November)
Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library
Most recently, Corinna Baksik
worked as an acquisitions assistant in the Social Sciences Program in HCL. Prior to that she was a business
analyst in records management at Fidelity Investments. She has a BA in social science from the University of Michigan, and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Wendy Brown
Library Assistant (November)
Social Sciences Program
Harvard College Library
Previously, Wendy Brown worked
as a manuscript assistant in HCL's Houghton Library, where she archived and preserved documents in the library's rare manuscript collection. She holds a BA in sociology and
elementary education from Northeastern University.
David Buxton
Associate Director (November)
Baker Library Services
Baker Library
Harvard Business School
David Buxton has had extensive
experience in managing circulation, library automation systems, and
cooperative library services, including being the circulation librarian at Widener from 1975 to 1977. He holds an MSLIS from Simmons and an AB in English literature from Harvard.
Lev Chaban
Slavic Librarian (November)
Slavic Division
Widener Library
Harvard College Library
Lev Chaban worked for 12 years at the New York Public Library, most recently as a librarian in its Slavic
and Baltic Division. He was
responsible for collection development, processing Slavic- and Baltic-language materials, and providing reference and research assistance. He holds a BA in pedagogical science from Drohobych Pedagogical Institute in Ukraine and an MLS from the Pratt Institute in New York.
Caitlin Connelly
Library Assistant (November)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Caitlin Connelly served as a research assistant at Georgetown University, where she transcribed and analyzed interviews for a professor visiting Harvard on a fellowship. She holds a BA in history from Georgetown and is currently working towards an MSLIS at Simmons.
Eddie Crane
Library Assistant (November)
Stacks Division
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Eddie Crane recently earned his
BA in history and political science from Boston College. A native of Cambridge, he served as an intern
at Congressman Capuano's office
and at the Joint Center for Housing Studies. He recently helped found an area sports camp for underprivileged youths.
Cary Donahue
Library Assistant (November)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Until recently, Cary Donahue
worked as a curatorial assistant at
the Medford Historical Society, where he performed object cataloging and archival processing. He also spent the last four years as lead cataloger at
the Northeast Museum Services Center
in Charlestown. He holds a BA in international relations from Lehigh University, as well as a certificate in museum studies and an ALM in
history, both from the Harvard Extension School.
Ben Dubrovsky
Product Design Architect (December)
Information Product Management
Baker Library
Harvard Business School
Ben Dubrovsky has over 15 years
of experience designing user
experience and applying usability
and user-centered design principles to web, kiosk, and other interactive
communications. He has a BS in
engineering from Tufts University, with majors in human factors engineering and computer science, and a master's in computer science from Harvard. He has also studied at MIT's Media Lab.
Sarah Flanigan
Library Assistant (October)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Sarah Flanigan recently worked as
a library intern at Payette Associates Architects in Boston, where she was responsible for circulating materials and researching and compiling
information for patrons. She holds a BA in Scandinavian studies and
sociology from the University of Wisconsin and is currently working towards her MSLIS at Simmons.
Cheryl Fraser
Operations Specialist (December)
Harvard Depository
Harvard University Library
Cheryl Fraser has worked at the Harvard Depository since March in
a temporary capacity as a project
traffic coordinator. She previously worked as a secretary in the real estate
department of Richards & Associates, PC, and as an assistant and project administrative coordinator at Aalborg Industries, both in Erie, Pennsylvania. She has a BA in English from Springfield College, and an MA in audiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Michael Grossman
Middle Eastern Librarian (November)
Middle Eastern Division
Widener Library
Harvard College Library
Michael Grossman has worked in the Middle Eastern Division as a library assistant for the past four years,
where he has performed cataloging
for works in Georgian, Armenian, Turkish, and Arabic. In addition,
he has worked as production
coordinator/caption coordinator at WGBH's Caption Center in Boston for the past 21 years. He holds an AB in sociology and anthropology from Oberlin College.
Daniel Groves
Library Assistant (October)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Daniel Groves recently completed
his MFA in English from Ohio State University. He also holds an MA
and BA in writing seminars from
Johns Hopkins University. He served
as a library assistant and a supervisor at Johns Hopkins's Milton S. Eisenhower Library, where he
reshelved and shifted materials,
trained assistants, and prepared
damaged materials for repair.
Thomas A. Horrocks
Associate Librarian of Houghton
Library for Collections (September)
Harvard College Library
Prior to joining HCL, Thomas Horrocks was associate director for the Center for the History of Medicine and Joseph Garland Librarian at Harvard's Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, where he was also acting codirector since January 2005. He received an MSLIS from Drexel University and a PhD in history from the University of Pennsylvania. Active in various bibliographical and scholarly organizations, he is a
member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Grolier Club, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is a founding member and current president of the Ticknor Society, a Boston-based bibliophilic society.
Dale Hunter
Library Assistant (October)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Dale Hunter has worked as an
interlibrary loan aide at Reed
College Library in Portland, Oregon. He has also held several positions at Snow Library in Orleans, Massachusetts. He holds a BA in
philosophy from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
Jasmine Koushki
Library Assistant (November)
Fine Arts Library
Harvard College Library
Jasmine Koushki has held a variety
of positions, including working as a library assistant at Yale University Library's Department of Acquisitions. While there, she processed the library's new books and translated Arabic and Persian titles. She is also currently
co-authoring a book about the lives
of women living in the United Arab Emirates.
Ashok Kumar
Application Database Administrator (December)
Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library
Ashok Kumar has worked at OIS
since 2003 as a consultant doing database administration. Prior to
that he was a database administrator at Merrill Lynch. He holds a BS in computer science from St. Xavier's College of Madurai Kamaraj University in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, and is an Oracle Certified Database Administrator.
Reed Lowrie
Science Reference Librarian (December)
Cabot Science Library
Harvard College Library
Reed Lowrie last worked as a science reference librarian/biomedical
specialist at the University of
Chicago's John Crerar Library, where he was responsible for outreach and instruction programs and for staffing the reference desk. Previously, he worked at the Grainger Engineering Library, University of Illinois, and at the Dana Biomedical Library and Matthews-Fuller Health Science Library, both at Dartmouth. He holds a BA in English literature from Haverford College, as well as
an MA in English literature from the University of Chicago and an MLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Pamela Madsen
Library Assistant (November)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Pamela Madsen has worked as a
collation department assistant at
Iowa State University's Parks Library. She distributed serials throughout the general collection and prepared
monographs for distribution. She
holds a BA in anthropology and
music from Iowa State University.
Joanna Marsden
Library Assistant (October)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Joanna Marsden has worked as a stacks shelving assistant in Access Services for the past few months. She is a recent graduate of Vassar College, where she earned a BA in music and Russian studies. She was a student assistant at Vassar's George Sherman Dickinson Music Library, where she gained experience cataloging, shelving, and working at the circulation desk.
Angela McDaniel
Library Assistant (November)
Social Sciences Program
Harvard College Library
Angela McDaniel has worked in the collection development department
at Duke University's Perkins Library, where she processed book orders to replace lost or damaged books. She also processed new book orders from professors and verified absence of duplicate copies. She earned her BA
in psychology from Duke.
Amber Meryman
Digital Acquisitions Librarian (November)
Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library
Since 2002, Amber Meryman was assistant dean of libraries/head of
technical services at Butler University in Indianapolis, and prior to that worked as a reference/web services librarian. She has a BA in history and government from Smith, and an MLS from Indiana University.
Lisa Mullen
Library Assistant (October)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Lisa Mullen previously worked on Access Services' NEDL Push Project. She also served as a library assistant
at Hilles Library. Prior to coming to Harvard, she worked as a library
technician at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at the Boulder Public Library.
Andrew Novis
Library Assistant (October)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Andrew Novis last worked at the Harvard Business School's Baker Library as a library assistant. He
performed electronic check-in of library materials and mailed out
claims to vendors and publishers. He holds a BA in Spanish from Brandeis University and an MA in Spanish from Boston College.
Amy Phillips
Cartographic Materials Project Cataloger (December)
HCL Technical Services
Harvard College Library
Until recently, Amy Phillips worked at the Harvard Divinity School's Andover-Harvard Theological Library as monographs and LDI project
cataloger. She cataloged manuscripts, special collections, microfiche of rare materials, and metadata related to art and archaeology. She also created guidelines for cataloging slides linked to digital images in OLIVIA. She holds a BA in English from Azusa Pacific University in California, an MSLS from the Catholic University of America, and a master of theological studies from Boston University.
Minna Scholten
Library Assistant (November)
Smart Barcoding Project
Access Services
Harvard College Library
Minna Scholten served as a volunteer at the Schlow Memorial Library in State College, Pennsylvania, where she was responsible for reshelving and organizing library materials. She earned her BA in religion from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Matthew Olen Martinez Thompson
Weekend Supervisor (September)
Access Services
Gutman Library
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Matthew Olen Martinez Thompson previously worked as an assistant in Access Services at Government Documents in HCL, as well as an assistant in Access Services at the Weston Jesuit/Episcopal Divinity School Library. He recently received a ThM in theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology. He also holds an MDiv from the Harvard Divinity School and an AB in English literature and history from Stanford University.
Gwido Zlatkes
Reserves and Access Services Librarian (November)
Access Services
Gutman Library
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Prior to this appointment, Gwido Zlatkes worked at Tozzer Library
as the evening/weekend circulation supervisor, where he also processed reserves and interlibrary loans. While at Tozzer he earned an MSLIS from Simmons. He also holds an MA in Polish literature from Warsaw University in Poland and an MA in Jewish studies from Hebrew College
in Brookline. Zlatkes continues his interest in literature and translates poetry from Polish to English and from English to Polish.
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