- Harvard University
- Library Notes
- January 2009
- No. 1347
| New Appointments |
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Danielle Adams Danielle Adams has been an employee of HCL since 2005, most recently as technical services librarian for the Lamont Unit of Cataloging Support Services. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh, and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Julia Ashmun
In addition to managing the Systems Analysis and Software Development Group within ITS, Julia Ashmun’s responsibilities include portfolio and project management, vendor relationship management, and technical and business analysis/advising. Her background beforecoming to Harvard included eleven years of commercial software engineering, as well as eleven years of MIS and consulting for banking, insurance, finance, advertising, retail, and government.
Abigail Bordeaux
Abigail Bordeaux has worked since 2007 for Ex Libris Group in Newton, as an implementation librarian, product specialist, and Verde/SFX implementation team leader. She has also held positions at the libraries of Binghamton University and Bryn Mawr. She has a BA in Russian from Bryn Mawr, and an MSLIS from Drexel University.
Lily Brooks
Lily Brooks has previously worked with several photographers, as a studio manager, and as a studio and shooting assistant. She earned a BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art.
Elizabeth Copenhagen
Since 2006, Liz Copenhagen has worked at Harvard Business School’s Knowledge and Library Services as the head of the Information Life Cycle Management Program. Prior to that she served for five years as assistant records manager at the Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She has also worked at the Boston Architectural Center as an archives consultant and copy cataloger, as the records manager/assistant archivist at Simmons, and as a publications processor and reference assistant at the Institute Archives and Special Collections at MIT. She has a BA in religious studies from Rhodes College in Memphis, a master of theological studies from Harvard, and an MSLIS from Simmons, as well as a CRM (certified records manager) designation.
John (Vito) D'Agosta
Vito D’Agosta worked in the Stacks Division on the Harvard–Google Project starting July 2006 and as a LHT since October 2006. He earned a BS in computer science from Suffolk University and is currently working towards his MSLIS at Simmons.
Xiaolin Dai
Xiaolin Dai has worked as a language specialist on the Harvard–Google Project at Harvard–Yenching Library since May 2008. She holds a BA in politics and law from Beihua University and a master’s degree in management of higher education from Jilin University in China.
Thomas Dodson
Thomas Dodson brings several years of strong and varied administrative and project management experience to this position. In addition, he holds an MLIS from Kent State University and a master of arts in comparative studies from The Ohio State University. He plans to continue his part-time weekend position as a reference librarian at Tufts University’s Tisch Library while working at the OSC.
Allyson Donahoe
Allyson Donahoe previously worked as an archives assistant at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. She holds a BS in chemical engineering from Clarkson University, and an MSLIS from Simmons.
Chris Jeris
Prior to coming to HCL in 2005, Chris Jeris worked for almost two years as a web services technician at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he designed, implemented, and supported new and existing database-backed web applications, as well as developing and maintaining the School of Public Health’s web site and evaluating and recommending new technologies for its web services. He also worked as a software engineer for SPSS, Inc. He has a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Ramsey Khemraj
A former computer support specialist for Harvard College Library ITS, Ramsahoye Khemraj joined Harvard College Library as a student casual in 1990. He became a staff assistant in 1996 and he joined the Harvard College Library ITS group as a computer support specialist in July 1997. He is now responsible for high-level technical support, problem solving, and project management, and will provide guidance for the network and computing infrastructure at HCL.
Amy Lang
Prior to coming to Harvard, Amy Lang worked as a membership specialist for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. She earned a BA in theater from UC Berkeley and is currently working towards her MSLIS at Simmons.
Nicola Mantzaris
Nicola Mantzaris has worked in the Stacks Division of Access Services since 2006. She also works as a digital project intern at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in the Archives Processing Unit. She has a BA in English from Stonehill College and an MA in cinema studies from New York University, and is currently working towards her MSLIS at Simmons.
Abigail McGuire
Abigail McGuire has been working in Human Resource Services as a staff assistant. She received a BA in English and American studies from Colby College.
Mary Oey
Mary Oey previously was the conservator of music manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. She holds an AB in history and science from Harvard, an MA in the history of art and archaeology, and an advanced certificate in the conservation of historic and artistic works from New York University.
Elke Piontek
Elke Piontek came to HBS from the MIT Libraries, where she held dual appointments as the Chinese language and literature librarian in the Humanities Library and the processing supervisor in the Dewey Library for Management and the Social Sciences and Humanities Library. She has also worked as a senior library assistant at the Dewey Library and as a lecturer and library assistant at the Institute of Sinology at the University of Wurzberg in Germany. A native German speaker, she is multilingual, fluent in English, highly proficient in Chinese, and proficient in French. She also has some Japanese. She has an MSLIS from Simmons and both a PhD and MA in Sinology (with a minor in economics) from the University of Wurzberg.
Valerie Sacchetti
Since 2004, Valerie Sacchetti has worked as a staff assistant for the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard. She earned a BA in sociology from Smith College.
Anaïs Salamon
Anaïs Salamon worked for four years at the Library of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, Egypt, serving as public services manager and managing the cataloging of the Arab-Islamic collection. She has also held cataloging positions at the Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC) in Paris, at the Library of the French Biblical and Archaeological School in East Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories; and at the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme in Aix-en-Provence, France. She holds licence and maîtrise degrees in modern Arabic from the Université d’Aix-en-Provence and a maîtrise degree in documentation from Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, and has studied at the French Institute of Arabic Studies in Damascus, Syria.
Emily Tordo
Emily Tordo’s most recent position was with the Museum of Science in Boston, where she was an assistant librarian at Lyman Library. Prior to that she held an internship at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. She attended St. John’s College in Annapolis, where she received a BA in liberal arts.
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