Martha Bedard joined UConn as vice provost of University Libraries
in October. A Massachusetts native, she graduated from Fitchburg State
College with a bachelor’s degree in English and earned a library degree
from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She
says her career trajectory began when she moved from public libraries to
a position at Harvard’s Medical School Library, where she discovered
she loved working with patrons in a very specialized setting. That
realization led her to the directorship of a small hospital library and
later to a larger academic medical library, both in Massachusetts.
Growing weary of New England’s winters, she headed south to warmer
climes and to several leadership positions at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, and later at Texas A&M University. In Texas,
she was selected for a fellowship in the Association of Research
Libraries’ first Leadership Program, an extensive two-year initiative
that exposed her to the workings of several large research libraries.
She was appointed as dean of university libraries at the University of
New Mexico in 2007, a position she held until she came to UConn.
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