Albie Johnson, State Librarian of Massachusetts, Profiled by The Boston Globe
From The Boston Globe:
By the nature of her job as the state librarian of Massachusetts, [Albie] Johnson is always surrounded by historical treasures.
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Many of the documents kept in the vault have been, or are being, digitized. Many are brought out for public display. Part of her job, Johnson says, is to make sure these treasures are accessible. But it also is her duty to keep them safe and secure for the next generations.
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The State Library was created by an act of the Legislature in 1826, but its collections were already being gathered as early as 1811 in the State House, a building that opened more than a decade earlier.
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Johnson, who has been state librarian since 2007 and has a staff of 11, spends time in several other spaces, too.
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See Also: State Library of Massachusetts Website
See Also: State Library of Massachusetts Digital Repository
See Also: State Library of Massachusetts Items (via Digital Commonwealth)
Filed under: Libraries, News, Open Access
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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