Staff Directory

Anna Gold joined the WPI community as University Librarian in 2017. She brought with her a passion for and dedication to polytechnic learning and interdisciplinary research. At WPI she has led projects to renew Gordon Library spaces to better serve as vibrant, productive working and learning spaces where students feel empowered and supported. She has also led the library's Digital WPI initiative that showcases WPI student projects and research as well as the cultural and historical treasures of the WPI Archives. Anna began her career as a research librarian at the Library of Congress. In ...

Diane provides clerical, administrative, and event support to the University Librarian and to all library staff. Diane ensures that the Gordon Library is a safe and comfortable place for students, faculty, and staff to study, meet, and socialize.

Liz is a Special Projects Librarian working on initiatives in Sustainability Data and Scholarly Communication. In support of a special one-year collaborative project, Liz is conducting a self-study of WPI's contributions to and impact on UN SDGs. Liz also supports a pilot program to provide simple but effective library support to faculty in updating and adding information to their WPI faculty profiles. Check out our Sustainability eBook Collection: Mapped to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this collection enables students and researchers to ...

Robin is part of the Access Services and Outreach team.  She supervises student information desk employees, provides research assistance, and processes interlibrary loan requests.

Lynn is part of the Access Services and Outreach team. She supervises student information desk employees, provides research assistance, and processes interlibrary loan requests. 

Samantha is part of the Access Services and Outreach team. She supervises the information desk student staff, processes reserve materials, and is in charge of stack maintenance. 

Jill is part of the Access Services and Outreach team. She is responsible for overseeing all operations of interlibrary loan and document delivery services. She also provides assistance to patrons and supervises student assistants at the Information Desk.

As Associate Director for Scholarly Communication and Open Strategies, Lori provides leadership and management for the library’s Scholarly Communication and Open Strategies programs and services.  This includes responsibility for delivering high quality information resources and discovery services and innovative uses of technology and assessment strategies that advance WPI research, teaching, community engagement, and other library programs and initiatives.

Martha is responsible for managing access to print journals, ejournals, and ebooks.

As STEM Instruction Librarian, Albert assists students, faculty, and staff in conducting research through individual, team, and classroom-based consultations and instruction. Albert’s primary area of support is in the STEM disciplines.

 Paige provides leadership, mentoring, collaborative vision and strategic direction for the library’s core student and faculty instruction and research and project support services. She/her/hers.

As Librarian for Global Programs & Undergraduate Learning Coordinator, Phil serves as the library liaison to Global Programs to support their project-based learning curriculum, leads the setting of goals and priorities for the library's undergraduate instruction program, and coordinates the assessment of the instruction program. Phil provides research assistance to students, faculty, and staff through individual and group consultations, in-class instruction, and online tutorials.

Mackenzie is part of the Research & Instruction team. She provides research assistance and instructional support to library users, both fostering information literacy and empowering others to efficiently navigate information resources. She/her/hers. 

As University Archivist and Assistant Director for Archives and Special Collections, Arthur oversees the University Archives, Rare Books & Art, and Manuscript collections.  These collections support the teaching curriculum, document history and culture, and serve as the institutional memory of WPI. 

As the Access and Outreach Archivist, Gillian processes new and existing resources into Gordon Library’s university archives and manuscript collections. She also coordinates many of the public-facing aspects for the department. She facilitates participatory archiving with student groups, supports patron research needs, oversees the Fellman Dickens Reading Room, and manages communications via social media and other channels. Gillian is driven by the principles of reparative description and inclusive collecting practices, both to promote collection discoverability and access and ...

As the Digital Repository and Metadata Librarian, Emily manages the ingest of digitized and born-digital archives and special collections material into the library's repositories, databases, and other discovery systems. she/her/hers.