Abby Clobridge will be the Associate Director for Research & Knowledge Services at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as of March 23, 2009. From 2003-2009, she was the head of the digital library program at Bucknell University. She oversees digital projects and programs, the institutional repository, creating digital materials to support pedagogy, and metadata production.

Abby has over ten years of experience working in library/information science. Prior to joining Bucknell, she worked at CNN as an investigative researcher and news librarian. Her current research interests include using digital objects to support visual literacy; content recruitment strategies for digital repositories; supporting collaborative projects. She is currently involved in developing a K-16 framework for approaching information literacy and technology fluency competencies. Abby is also co-creator of the Library of Tomorrow web site, a new online forum for discussing current issues related to libraries and our user communities.

Abby holds an M.S. in Library Science from Florida State University and a B.A. in History from Tufts University.

More information can be found about Abby at her personal web site, www.abbyclobridge.com. 

Abby can be reached at aclobridge @ paperandpixels [dot] org.