As Director of Libraries, Ann J. Wolpert oversees MIT’s distributed library system and MIT Press. She also has oversight of Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was executive director of library and information services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience previous to Harvard included management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., an international management and consulting firm, where she also worked on various consulting assignments. More recent consulting assignments have taken her to the University of New Mexico, Cornell University and Adelphi University in New York, the campuses of INCAE in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, the League of European Research Libraries in Amsterdam, the National Library of China, and the Malaysia University of Science and Technology.
Wolpert is active in the professional library community. She recently served as president of the Association of Research Libraries and is a member of its Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee. She serves on the board of directors of the Boston Library Consortium and the steering committees of the Coalition for Networked Information and the Digital Library Federation. She is a member of the National Institute for Health's Public Access Working Group and the Journal of Library Administration's editorial board, and she is a publications advisor to the National Science Foundation and the Massachusetts Medical Society. A frequent speaker and writer, she has recently contributed papers on topics such as library service to remote library users, intellectual property management in a digital environment, and open access and the future of research libraries in the digital age.
Wolpert received a BA from Boston University and an MLS from Simmons College, where she is an Honorary Trustee. In 1998 she was elected to the National Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education of the American Council on Education.