- Harvard University
- Library Notes
- September 2008
- No. 1345
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Ceilyn Boyd
For nearly two decades, Ceilyn Boyd was an applications development programmer and project manager in scientific visualization and computer graphics at several research and commercial organizations, including Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric, and BBN Corporation. She also spent seven years as the sole proprietor of an art glass studio and has taught art technique to adults and teens in the Boston area. Her current research in library science involves digital asset management and preservation, facilitating access to and analysis of preserved assets using visualization technologies, and ethics in Internet research. She is also involved in the study of online communities, and in developing strategies for ethically preserving the born-digital artifacts of these and other communities for future scholarly inquiry. She has a BA in linguistics (Stanford University), an MA in anthropology and women’s studies (Brandeis University), and an MSLIS (Simmons).
Darron Burke
Darron Burke owns Makeshift Studio, which he opened in 1997, and also works as a machinist/research technician for Soundwave Research Labs.
Leslie Burmeister
Leslie Burmeister started working at the Business School in 2006 for Baker Library Information Services. She has a background in publishing, having worked previously for six years in sales/marketing at Holtzbrinck Publishers in New York. She is currently a student in the MSLIS program at Simmons.
Richard Burns
For the past two years, Richard Burns has worked at Harvard as a staff assistant/program coordinator for the Aga Khan Program at the History of Art and Architecture Department. He holds a BA in film from Emerson College, and is currently pursuing a master’s in government from the Harvard Extension School.
Allison Cannarsa
Allison Cannarsa has also worked as the assistant collection manager for Coe Hall Museum–Planting Fields Museum in Oyster Bay, New York. She has a BA in both art history and Italian from Vassar College. While at Vassar, she worked as a stacks manager at Thompson Memorial Library, and as a desk attendant at HCL’s Fine Arts Library.
James Capobianco
James Capobianco previously worked at Emerson College Library as the coordinator of web development/reference librarian. He holds an AB in English and American literature and language from Harvard College, an EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Sara Gabriel
Sara Gabriel previously worked as a library assistant at McQuade Library at Merrimack College, where she also received her BA in history.
Matthew Gamber
Previously, Matthew Gamber was a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, where he taught undergraduate and graduate photography classes. He has a BFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University.
Austin Haley
Austin Haley has previously worked for Harvard in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Library as a library assistant. He holds a BA in liberal arts from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is currently pursuing his MSLIS at Simmons.
Bill Hanscom
Miriam Leigh
Miriam Leigh has worked in Imaging Services as a staff assistant since 2005. She earned a BA in English literature from McGill University and an MSLIS with a concentration in archives from Simmons.
Andrew Leonard
Andrew Leonard has worked for HCL since 2006 in Preservation and Imaging Services, most recently as a reformatting preparation technician. In this role, he was responsible for the stabilization and repair of Harvard’s newspaper collections for digital and film reformatting. He holds a BFA in printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art.
Giordana Mecagni
Giordana Mecagni previously served as the archivist for the Center’s Archives for Women in Medicine, a position in which she successfully acquired and processed women’s collections, coordinated public programs, and raised funds to support the Archives. She came to Countway from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and before that was the manager of the Resource Center for Philanthropy at Associated Grant Makers in Boston—a special collection focusing on the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. She received her BA in women’s studies and sociology from the University of New Hampshire, and her MSLIS (archives concentration) from Simmons.
April Mullins
April Mullins has been working as a library assistant at Harvard since 1999. She began at Widener Library in Collection Development Support Services. In 2000 she moved with her team to 625 Massachusetts Avenue and became part of the newly organized HCL Technical Services. Over the next seven years, she performed a variety of acquisitions-related tasks in what is now the African and Asian Unit. She has a BA in French language and literature from the University of Florida.
Jennifer Pelose
Since 2000, Jennifer Pelose has held various positions at the Countway Library’s Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, including working as a processing assistant, assistant archivist for manuscripts, processing archivist, and collections services archivist. She holds a BA in history and modern languages (French) from Union College, and an MA in history and an MSLIS with an archives concentration from Simmons.
Marilyn Rackley
Most recently, Marilyn Rackley was employed as a web archivist at the European Archive in Paris. She has also held research assistant positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as working as a portfolio specialist at Kistler-Tiffany Advisors in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley in Philadelphia. She has a BA in government and French language and literature from Smith College, an MA in French literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Patrick Rogers
Previously, Patrick Rogers worked as a senior photographer at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and as a digital imaging technician at the Museum at the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a BA in photography from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Scott Salvaggio
Scott Salvaggio has been with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government since 2004, working as a faculty assistant and as a library assistant for technical services. He has also worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a faculty resource center assistant. He received a bachelor of music from Berklee College of Music and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith has worked as a conservation technician in Preservation and Imaging Services since 2006. She holds a BA in sociology and anthropology from Colgate and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Bryan W. Sutherland
Previously, Bryan Sutherland was project archivist at the Center, processing the paper and electronic records of the Harvard Medical School’s Office of the Dean. He has a BA in history from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and an MSLIS (archives concentration) from Simmons.
Lauren Telepak
Lauren Telepak holds a BA in psychology from Vassar College and a masters of science and information studies from University of Texas at Austin, with a certificate of advanced study in conservation. She completed a conservation internship at Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College. She also designed and taught book arts classes for students and employees while at Dartmouth.
Liz Tempesta
Liz Tempesta came to HBS from the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), where she was associate director of web strategy and production, managing key aspects of the HKS web environment, including information architecture, content structure, adherence to accessibility and usability standards, and enhancement requests. She has a BA in English from Northeastern and an MEd from Boston College. She is also the author of Establishing Women’s Professional Baseball, published by McFarland and Co. in 2001.
Günder Varinlioglu
Günder Varinlioglu holds a BArch from the Middle East Technical University and an MA in art history and archaeology from Bilkent University, both in Ankara, Turkey. She will receive her PhD in art and archaeology of the Mediterranean world from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. She was a junior fellow in Byzantine studies at Dumbarton Oaks in 2004–2005.
Margaret Wessling
Margaret Wessling has completed conservation internships at the Morgan Library and Museum’s Thaw Center for Conservation, at Columbia University’s Butler Library, and at the Straus Center for Conservation in Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. She received her BA in art history and visual arts from Columbia.
Jennifer Willis
Jennifer Willis also works part-time as director of Gallery Artists Studio Projects. She holds an associate in arts degree from Miami Dade College and a BA in photography and art history from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University.
Susan Wyssen
Susan Wyssen has worked at Houghton for three years, most recently as the Roosevelt Project photograph cataloger, and before that as the Finding Aids Conversion Project cataloger. She earned a BA in history at Smith College and an MFA in book arts at the University of Alabama.
Huggy Yoon
Huggy Yoon will also continue to work part-time at Cabot Science Library, where he has been a library assistant since 2006. Prior to working at Cabot he was a serials assistant at Lamont Library, beginning in 2003.
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