Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

April 30, 2003

Contact: Ruth K. Seidman

MIT Libraries Communications Coordinator

rks@mit.edu

Ruth K. Seidman, Communications Coordinator for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, will retire from MIT June 30, 2003. She served as Head of MIT’s Engineering and Science Libraries from 1988 to 1999, and previously held positions as Director of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Research Library, and Region I (New England) Librarian for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. President of Special Libraries Association 1990-1991, Seidman is the author of the 1993 SLA monograph Building Global Partnerships for Library Cooperation and was editor of the Haworth Press, Inc. quarterly Science & Technology Libraries 1994-2001. She plans to continue following the always exciting developments in the information world, but will now have more time for her many interests including creative writing, the arts, women’s and children’s issues, and her family.

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