Martha R. Mahard
Martha R. Mahard is currently on the faculty of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science where she teaches courses in management of photographic archives, moving image collections, art documentation, and preservation. She holds a Doctor of Arts degree in Library Administration from Simmons.
Martha recently retired from Harvard after a 35 year career starting as a library assistant in the Harvard Theatre Collection in 1970. She became Assistant Curator and Manuscript/Special Collections cataloger in 1981. In 1989 she became the Visual Resources Librarian at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, in 1995 Curator of Visual Collections in the Fine Arts Library, and in 2000 Curator of Historic Photographs in the Fine Arts Library.
At Harvard she served for four years as Chair of the VIA steering committee and chaired the working group that initially recommended the development of a union catalog for visual materials at Harvard.
She has lectured and published on a variety of topics including education for visual resources librarianship, and the collaborative experiences involved in the successful implementation of VIA.
Martha has been active in the Visual Materials Section of SAA and was recently appointed editor of the VM Section Newsletter Views.
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