Susan K. Martin
Susan K. Martin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Susan Katherine Orowan 1942 (age 81–82) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Tufts University University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Employer(s) | Harvard University Johns Hopkins University |
| Father | Egon Orowan |
Susan Katherine Martin (born 1942) is an American librarian. She has worked as a university librarian and was executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Early life
[edit]Martin was born in Cambridge, England in 1942.[1] Her parents were pianist Jolan (née Schonfeld) and Egon Orowan, a native of Budapest, Hungary.[2][3] Both of her parents fled Nazi Germany because of their Jewish ancestry, reuniting and marrying in England.[3] Her family moved to Belmont, Massachusetts in the United States in 1950, and she became a naturalized citizen in 1961.[4][5] Her father was a noted professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5]
She graduated from Belmont High School in 1959.[6][7] Martin attended Tufts University, graduating with a B.A. in romance languages in 1963.[8][9] She received a Master of Library Science from Simmons College in 1965.[9][8] She interned at the Harvard College Library from 1963 to 1965.[9] She attended the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a Ph.D. in library and information science in 1983.[8][9]
Career
[edit]Martin worked as a systems librarian at Harvard University from 1963 to 1973.[9][10] She was the head of library systems office at Berkeley at the University of California, Berkeley Libraries from 1973 to 1979.[9][10] Next, she was the director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University from 1979 to 1988.[10] In 1984, Martin became the Samuel Lazerow distinguished lecturer at Drexel University.
She was the executive director National Commission on Libraries and Information Science from 1988 to 1990.[8] For this position, she was responsible for developing legislation and advising the executive and legislative branches about the needs of the libraries.[9] She also directed and planned national library and information science programs with state, local, and private organization.[9]
Martin was the university librarian of Georgetown University from 1990 to 2001.[11] In 2001, she became the president of SKM Associates, a library management consulting firm.[8] In September 2002, she became a part-time visiting program officer for scholarly communications with the Association of College and Research Libraries.[8]
Martin became a fellow in the Council on Library Resources in 1973. In 1994, she was elected president of the Association of College and Research Libraries.[12] She was also president of Library and Information Technology Association and the Universal Serials and Book Exchange.[12][10] She was an American Library Association delegate to the Soviet Union in November 1976.[10]
She has written numerous articles and monographs on library automation.[10] She was the editor of the Journal of Library Automation from 1973 to 1977 and an was on the board of consultants for Library Issues: Briefings for Faculty and Administrators.[9][10]
Awards and honors
[edit]Martin received the Simmons College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1977.[12] When she retired from Georgetown in 2001, members of the Library Advisory Council established The Susan K. Martin Fund for Innovative Information Technologies in her honor.[11] In addition, Thomas J. Healey family established The Susan K. Martin, Ph.D., Fund for Science Fiction Award Collections at Georgetown in her honor in 2001.[13]
Personal life
[edit]She married David S. Martin of New Bedford, Massachusetts in June 1962.[4] He was the dean of School of Education at Galludaet University.[14] She became one of the first female members of the Cosmos Club in 1988.[15] She donated her father's papers to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries.[16]
Selected publications
[edit]- Library Networks, 1986-87: Libraries in Partnership (Professional Librarian Series). Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986. ISBN 978-0867291278
- "Academic Library Fund-Raising: Organization, Process, and Politics". Library Trends vol. 48, no. 3 (2000). ISBN 9781315116143
- "The Use of Hypertext for Orientation: the NCLIS Approach". Essen Symposium. pp. 57–69, 1989
- Keeping the Pace with the Users". The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 20, no. 4 (September 1994): 225-225.
- "The Profession and Its Leaders: Mutual Responsibilities". The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 22, no. 5 (September 1996)
- "Clinging to ''Status: The Attitude of Librarians to the Non-MLS Staff". The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 23, no. 3 (May 1997)
- "The Changing Role of the Library Director: Fund-raising and the Academic Library". The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 24, no. 1(January 1998): 3-10
- "A New Kind of Audience". The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 24, no. 6 (November 1998): 469-469
- "Visions - When Vision Encounters Reality: A Professional Dilemma". The Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 25, no. 3 (May 1999).
References
[edit]- ^ Jr, Miloslav Rechcigl (November 2, 2021). Notable Americans of Czechoslovak Ancestry in Arts and Letters and in Education. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-6655-4006-3 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Budapest Native Named New Professor at MIT". Concord Monitor. Concord, New Hampshire. June 29, 1950. p. 1. Retrieved December 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Nabarro, F.R.N. and Argon, A. S. "Egon Orowan. 1901—1989: A Biographical Memoir". Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1996. p. 261-262.
- ^ a b "Weddings". The Boston Globe. July 1, 1962. p. 90. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ a b Nabarro, F.R.N. and Argon, A. S. "Egon Orowan. 1901—1989: A Biographical Memoir". Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1996. p. 298.
- ^ "BHS Class of 1959 Reunion October 17-19, 2014". Belmont High School Class of 1959. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
- ^ "Belmont HS Belmont, MA Alumni List". Belmont High School. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Martin is New ACRL Visiting Program Officer". News and Press Center. American Association of Libraries. February 26, 2007. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Blamberg, Donald L.; Dowing, Carol L.; Weston, Claudia V., eds. (1983). Proceeding of the Conference on Application Scanning Methodologies in Libraries (PDF). Beltsville, Maryland: National Agriculture Library, United States Department of Agriculture. pp. 9–10. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g "People". College & Research Libraries News. 40 (7). 1979.
- ^ a b "The Susan K. Martin Fund for Innovative Information Technologies". Georgetown University Library. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Association of College & Research Libraries And the winners are …". College & Research Libraries News. 55 (7). 1994.
- ^ "The Susan K. Martin, Ph.D., Fund for Science Fiction Award Collections". Georgetown University Library. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ "Egon Orowan, 2 August 1902 - 3 August 1989". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 41: 316–340. November 1995. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1995.0020. ISSN 0080-4606. S2CID 73197170.
- ^ Feinberg, Lawrence (October 12, 1988). "18 Women End Cosmos Club's 110-Year Male Era". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 14, 2023.
- ^ "Collection: Egon Orowan papers | MIT ArchivesSpace". archivesspace.mit.edu. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
- 1942 births
- People from Belmont, Massachusetts
- Belmont High School (Massachusetts) alumni
- Tufts University alumni
- Simmons University alumni
- University of California, Berkeley School of Information alumni
- Harvard Library
- University of California, Berkeley people
- Johns Hopkins University people
- Drexel University faculty
- Georgetown University people
- American women editors
- American women librarians
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American women writers
- American women academics
- Jewish women
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- Living people