Nina Davis-Millis

Head, Systems and Technology Services
MIT Libraries, Room E25-131
77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02139

Visit www.christophermillis.com for information on my husband's one-man show in the New York International Fringe Festival!

I am the head of the MIT Libraries' department of Systems and Technology Services. My responsibilities include:

• managing and coordinating the Libraries' technology-based services
• supervising the Libraries' Systems and Technology Services Department
• leading the process for approving computer-related capital equipment purchases for the Libraries
• overseeing the Libraries' technology-related projects, particularly priority-setting within Library Council
• establishing procedures, policies, and priorities for the Libraries' use of technology, in collaboration with various committees and senior management of the Libraries

I am also the housemaster at MIT's Random Hall.

Current Activities

• Ex Libris Users of North America Steering Committee -- member and past chair
• Library Council
• Technology Advisory Group (chair)

Random Hall

• Random is the home of Physical Plant, and the proud winners of the 2005 IAP Mystery Hunt
• When Random Hall's residents wanted to rename one of our floors, someone actually paid for the honor.
• Random Hall is the home of up to four legal cats as reported in The New York Times on November 12, 2000.
• Our laundry facilities have gained international fame.
• And then there's the milk, winner of the coveted award for Ugliest Manifestation on Campus (UMOC) in 1995, 1998, and 2000, and 2003.

Selected Writings

• "Why Music at MIT?"
• "Bibliographic Software: A Beginner's Guide"
• "Technostress and the Organization"

Useful Links

• Checking out Viruses and Hoaxes will save you from panic and embarrassment. Please check these before you forward any scary emails to everyone you know.
• The Virtual Reference Collection - one of the most useful pages I know. Now you, too, can look it up.
  
  

Photo Gallery

• A wonderful day on Mt. Monadnock.
• Cheshire: on the beach, and befriending a bunny.
• Memory Lane Department -- Lester and Viola, circa 1947.
• Nina, Marmelade, and Selma, circa 1960.
• Passover, 1945. The place: The Bronx. The cook: the indomitable Rose Davis. Photographs by the great Cornell Capa; commentary by my uncle, the late Joseph R. Davis. Thanks, Seth!