Library Personnel News

Note the following staff changes and accomplishments of our excellent team of Library faculty and staff.
 

FIT Library is pleased to announce our new faculty position leading information literacy among all students at FIT. We are pleased that Helen Lane is our the new Head of Research & Instructional Services.  Helen has a BA in English Literature from Earlham College and a MLIS from Pratt Institute.  Her library instruction experience is extensive and she has held positions in Reference and Instructional Services. Most recently she was the Librarian for Reference, Instruction and Technology at Columbia University prior to joining FIT in July.  She has held Library positions at Pace University, St. Francis College- Brooklyn, New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the  Brooklyn Museum of Art.

We have hired Lydia Gwyn as the new Access Services Manager working in our Circulation Department.  Lydia has a BA in English from East Tennessee  State Univ. and a MA in English/Creative Writing from The University of Southern Mississippi.  Her library experience is extensive and she has held positions in ILL, Reference, Circulation and Digital Reserves.  She was the Asst. Manager of Circulation Services at the Johnson City, TN Public Library before coming to the NY Metro area in 2008.  Her last position was at The New School for Design in the Digital Reserves Library.