Susan K. Martin | |
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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 |
Parent |
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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.
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]
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]
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]
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]