Amy Armitage
Cataloger/Serials Cataloger (December)
Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library

Amy Armitage has held several Harvard library positions, most recently at Harvard College Library Technical Services as Materials Management cataloger and, prior to that, as project cataloger/assistant project manager on the HD/Aleph Reconciliation Project. She also worked as a cataloging project library assistant at HCL Technical Services, as well as at the Harvard Law School Library as a collection management assistant, and she spent six years working in various capacities in Khabarovsk and Moscow, Russia. She has a BA in Russian studies from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and an MSLIS from Simmons.


Amy Benson
Librarian/Archivist for Digital Initiatives (October)
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Amy Benson comes to the Schlesinger from NELINET, Inc., where she has served for 12 years, most recently as program director for digital services. Prior to that position she worked at HCL’s Houghton and Widener libraries. She holds an EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education, an MSLIS from Simmons, and a BA from Beloit College.


Heather G. Cole
Assistant Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts (December)
Houghton Library
Harvard College Library

Heather G. Cole previously worked as a resident librarian in Special Collections at Miami University in Ohio. She earned a BA in English literature and creative writing from Miami University. She also holds an MLS with a specialization in rare books and an MA in English literature from Indiana University.

Valdeva Crema
Application Developer and Web Support Specialist (January)
Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library

Valdeva Crema has worked since 2005 at the Harvard University Art Museums, as an application developer and support specialist. Prior to that she was a computer science and
mathematics instructor and an administrator at Prospect Hill Academy in Cambridge. She has a BA in mathematics from Boston University, a BA in computer science from the University at Buffalo, and an MS in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.


Michelle Durocher
Head of the English Division (November)
HCL Technical Services
Harvard College Library

Michelle Durocher has been employed by HCL for over 20 years, serving as Materials Management team leader of HCL Technical Services and the former Cataloging Services Department.


Stacey Flatt
Manuscript Cataloger (October)
Collection Services Department
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Along with a BA in American history and minor in museum studies from the State University of New York at Oswego, and an MA in American history from the Archival, Museum, and Editing Studies Program at Duquesne University, Stacey Flatt brings many years of archival experience to this position. Most recently, she was project archivist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, reconstructing the extensive object and artist files of the Painting and Sculpture Department, overseeing file transfers offsite, and performing a myriad of other duties. Previously, she was an archivist for the Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), a senior archivist for the History Factory (Chantilly, Virginia), curator of the Tinker Homestead (Henrietta, New York), and an archivist for the Bausch & Lomb corporate archives.


Recep Goktas
Project Cataloger/Selection Assistant (November)
Open Collections Program
Harvard University Library

Currently, Recep Goktas is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. He has worked since 2001 as a student assistant in the Middle Eastern Division of HCL’s Widener Library, cataloging books in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, and Arabic, and he has experience teaching Turkish, modern and classical Arabic, and introductory Islamic philosophy and theology. He holds a BA from the Faculty of Divinity at Ankara University, Turkey, and also completed coursework for a master’s degree from Ankara University’s Institute of Social Sciences.


Sarah Hambleton
Library Assistant (September)
Public Services Department
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Sarah Hambleton holds a BA from Bryn Mawr and an MLIS from the University of Rhode Island. She worked at HCL’s Widener Library, providing interlibrary loan services, and prior to that at the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as at the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston.


Amanda Hegarty
Collection Conservator (September)
Collection Services Department
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Amanda Hegarty was educated at Colby College; Columbia University School of Library Service, Rare Book Program; and North Bennet Street School. She has held positions at the American Antiquarian Society and the New England Document Conservation Center. While raising a child she has run a private practice from her home and in that capacity has done work for the Boston Athenaeum.


Jill Hiller
Payment Specialist (November)
Serials Services Division
Widener Library Access Services
Harvard College Library

Jill Hiller previously worked for Wolters Kluwer Health Ovid Technologies as a customer service representative. Prior to that, she worked for 15 years at Faxon/Rowecom as a customer service account manager.

Jennifer Jubinville
Production Systems Programmer (December)
Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library

Jennifer Jubinville has worked since 2000 for Target Software in Cambridge, most recently as lead support analyst and prior to that as senior application developer, director of application design and development, application support manager, and technical support analyst. Concurrently, she worked as a library monitor at the Film Study Library within Harvard’s Film Studies department and at Wheelock College Library as a reference assistant. She has a BA in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is pursuing an MSLIS at Simmons.


Mirit Lerner-Naaman
Cataloging/Order Assistant (October)
Collection Services Department
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Mirit Lerner-Naaman comes to Radcliffe from the Judaica Division of Widener Library, HCL, where she cataloged periodicals, monographs, and audio-visual materials, and has also worked for the Longfellow National Historic Site. She received a BA in modern Middle East and African history from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. She is currently a candidate for an ALM in museum studies at the Harvard Extension School.


Heather McMullen
Head of Access and Research Services (October)
John F. Kennedy School of Government Library

Most recently, Heather McMullen held the position of manager of client services for the Bank of Canada Library in Ottawa. Prior to that she worked at the Harvard College
Library as head of Public Services in the Littauer Library, July 2001–June 2004, and social sciences data librarian, Numeric Data Services, July 1998–June 2004. In January 2003, she received the Carol Ishimoto Award for Distinguished Service in the Harvard College Library. She began her library career as assistant librarian for economics at MIT. She has a BA in economics from the University of Waterloo and an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario.

Laura Morris
Processing Archivist (January)
Harvard University Art Museums Archives

Laura Morris comes to HUAM from the Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, where she served as a manuscripts processor in the Historical Collections. She previously worked as an archives assistant at HUAM while earning her MSLIS from Simmons,
and she is completing her MA in history at the same institution. She holds a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols scholar. In addition, she has studied at the Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France, and at the Pratt Institute in New York.


Amy Sprung
Human Resource Coordinator (December)
Human Resource Services
Harvard College Library

Sine 2003, Amy Sprung has worked in Human Resource Services as a
staff assistant. She holds a BA in psychology from Wesleyan University, and is currently working toward an MSLIS from Simmons.


Deborah Theodore
Administrative/Curatorial Assistant (July)
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Deborah Theodore has a BA in anthropology from Rice University and has had a career in publishing and in libraries. She worked for the Belmont Public Library, Harvard Business School Publishing as well as Harvard University Press, Harvard International Office, and the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology’s publication Brevoria.


Samuel Thomasson
Library Assistant (November)
Binding and Shelf Preparation
Preservation and Imaging Services
Harvard College Library

Samuel Thomasson previously worked for the UPS Store, and prior to that as a web researcher and a lab assistant at the Broome Community College Photography Lab in Binghamton, New York.


Kimberly Tully
Special Collections Librarian (Rare Books) (November)
Historical Collections
Baker Library
Harvard Business School

Kimberly Tully recently completed an MA in history at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where she worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of History and as a
graduate student worker in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Prior to that, she was ESTC (English Short Title Catalog) cataloger at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, a curatorial assistant in the Department of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, and a graduate assistant in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her MA, she holds an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.


Audrey Wang
Financial Associate (May)
Administrative Department
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Audrey Wang holds an MBA in finance concentration from Suffolk University in Boston, and a BS in economics from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology in China.
She comes to Schlesinger from Eagle Investment Systems LLC in Newton, where she was a business analyst. Previously, she worked as a senior account controller at State Street Corporation in Boston.


Bruce Williams
Administrative Assistant (September)
Administrative Department
Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute

Bruce Williams was educated at Wayland Baptist University and previously worked in HCL’s Widener Library. He has also worked in architectural firms and in the financial sector, and has over 12 years of experience working in circulation at both public and academic libraries. He is continuing his studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.