April Duclos

April (she/her) is the Harvard Depository Resource Sharing Manager at Harvard University, a role she has served in since September 2021. In this role, she oversees resource sharing operations at the offsite Harvard Depository location, leading a team of 4 staff. Her responsibilities include oversight and consultancy of access services at Harvard Depository. Among with her core duties, she manages several projects: 

• Consortia lending: Resource Sharing circulation of materials for consortia members through multiple lending programs including Interlibrary Loan, SCSB, and Borrow Direct.
• Harvard & consortia scanning: Provide consistent high-quality article/chapter scanning of resources in a variety of formats and conditions, and triage reference requests (such as for poor citations) for Harvard patrons and patrons in locations worldwide.
• JSTOR dark archive & scanning: Prepare and store materials for JSTOR’s dark archive, fill requests for missing/replacement scans, and participate in the workflow for scans of whole issues/volumes to fill gaps in JSTOR’s online collection.

She is currently a co-chair of the Fulfillment Working Group, a co-chair of the Trauma Informed Librarianship Committee, and a member of the Access Services Extended Leadership Team (ELT).

She joined Harvard in 2005, starting as a library assistant for the JSTOR Dark Archive project. She graduated with a Master of Library Science from Simmons University and a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages from St. Lawrence University.