Emily R. Novak Gustainis
Collections Services Archivist (January)
Center for the History of Medicine
Countway Library of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Most recently, Emily R. Novak Gustainis served as librarian/archivist for Historic New England, where she worked on a wide variety of descriptive, reference, research, and public-access projects. Prior to that, she worked as a photograph cataloger at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, for a digital access project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She was also an archivist for the Information and Archival Services Division of the Winthrop Group, Inc., where she arranged and described collections for a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit clients, including the Architectural Research Institute (Beverly Willis Papers Project), the United Nations, and WGBH. She holds both an MLS and a BA in English literature and teacher education from the State University of New York at Albany.


Ramona Islam
E-Learning and Curricular Design Librarian (January)
Harvard College Library

Ramona Islam previously worked at Connecticut’s Fairfield University as an adjunct professor and senior reference librarian and instruction coordinator. She earned a BA in fine arts from Alfred University, an MLS from Kent State University, and an MA in educational technology from Fairfield University.


Ben Johnson
Special Collections Processor (February)
Baker Library Historical Collections
Knowledge and Library Services
Harvard Business School

Ben Johnson came to HBS from the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he was the manuscript and special materials cataloger. He holds an MSLIS (archival management concentration) from Simmons and a BA in history from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.


Christine Rivera
Information Research Specialist (February)
Baker Research Services
Knowledge and Library Services
Harvard Business School

Christine Rivera has a BS from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, an MS in biostatistics from Dartmouth College, and is in the process of getting her MBA online from Northeastern University. Most recently she was an independent consultant to Hawaii Emergency Physicians Associated, Inc., and she spent several years as a statistician at the Harvard School of Public Health.


Lauren Moffa Syer
Technical Services Librarian for the Lamont Unit of CSS (January)
HCL/FAS Cataloging Support Services
HCL Technical Services
Harvard College Library

Lauren Moffa Syer has worked at Harvard University Library since 2003, most recently as the workflow and operations supervisor for the Harvard–Google Project in the Office for Information Systems. She has held cataloging positions at MIT, Massachusetts College of Art, and Harvard. She earned a BA in music history and music theory from Oberlin College, and an MSLIS from Simmons.