- Harvard University
- Library Notes
- July 2008
- No. 1344
| New Appointments |
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Michael Austin Most recently, Michael Austin worked as a processing assistant in the Harvard University Archives. He holds a BA in philosophy and German from the University of Texas, an MA in South Asian studies from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and an MLS from Syracuse University.
Aly Brown Aly Brown worked most recently at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, where she was a visitor services coordinator. She also worked as a page/library assistant/book processor at Kitsap Regional Library in Silverdale, Washington. She has a BA in English literature from the University of Washington and is working towards an MSLIS at Simmons.
Ae Young Lee has worked in the Harvard–Yenching Library as an LHT since November 2007 as a project assistant on the Korean Rare Book Digitization Project. She earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural biology at Kyungpook National University in Taegu, Korea, and a master’s degree in social work at Sungkyul University in Anyang, Korea.
Matthew Nickerson Matthew Nickerson worked at HCL in 2007 as a library assistant for the Widener Barcoding Project. More recently, he worked for Google as a quality rater. He has a BA in history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Jennifer Pelose Jennifer Pelose has worked at the Countway Library since 2000, as a project processing assistant, assistant archivist for manuscripts, and most recently processing archivist in the Center for the History of Medicine. She currently coordinates descriptive practices for and the processing of the Center for the History of Medicine’s archival and manuscript collections. She received BA degrees in history and French from Union College, and holds an MSLIS and an MA in history from Simmons.
Valerie Robison has held several library jobs, including four years at Harvard in library-assistant positions in HUL’s CONSER office and at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library. She has also worked at the McQuade Library, Merrimack College; the O’Neill Library, Boston College; and the Morris Library, University of Delaware. Her most recent position was providing library services at Accufile Inc., a Boston staffing firm. She has a BS in human resources from the University of Delaware, and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Peter Steinberg has been working at Houghton as an LHT since 2007 as an archival assistant. He also works part-time at the Massachusetts Historical Society as a library assistant and a digital projects production specialist. He holds a BA in English from Mary Washington College, and an MSLIS from Simmons with a concentration in archives.
Bryan Sutherland has worked at the Countway Library over the last year and a half as an archives assistant and most recently as the project archivist for the Harvard Medical School Office of the Dean Records Project in the Center for the History of Medicine. Previously, he completed archival internships at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Center for the History of Medicine. He holds a BA in history from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and an MSLIS from Simmons.
For the past five years, Mark Vassar has been a processing and reference archivist at the Massachusetts Archives. He will continue to be the resident archivist at the Cambridge Historical Society (the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House on 159 Brattle Street), where he has lived and worked for more than seven years. With a strong background in both archives and American history (including women’s history), he is particularly knowledgeable about state and local history. He has a BA in history/social science from Eastern Connecticut State University, an MS in education from the University of New Haven, and an MSLIS in archives management from Simmons.
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