Elizabeth Kirk

Elizabeth Kirk is the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Services for the Harvard Library.  In this role, she provides system-wide leadership for collection development, as well as administration of Preservation Services, Open Scholarship and Research Data Services, and collection development and research, teaching, and learning services within Harvard College Library. Eliz's programmatic responsibilities include global studies, humanities and social sciences, and science and engineering services. Eliz began her career as a librarian in the Sheridan Libraries at the Johns Hopkins University, where she held several positions, including as founding director of the Entrepreneurial Library Program. Additionally, Eliz taught instructional design in the adult and higher education program at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. After leaving Hopkins, Eliz was Associate Librarian for Information Services at Dartmouth College. She has spoken extensively on electronic information resources; library services to distance education; social entrepreneurship in libraries; and copyright, scholarly publishing, and open scholarship. Elizabeth holds a diploma from the Sorbonne; a BA in French from Barrington College; an MA in French literature from New York University, followed by advanced graduate work; and an MS in Library Science from Simmons College. She was a Frye Leadership Institute fellow in 2001 and a UCLA Senior Fellow in 2010.