Sarah M. Pritchard

Sarah M. Pritchard ni mtaalamu wa maktaba wa Marekani anayejulikana kwa mchango wake katika usimamizi wa maktaba ya utafiti, masomo ya wanawake na mustakabali wa maktaba za kidijitali.Library leaders on digital libraries and the future of the research library. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. June 2004.

 Elimu na taaluma 
Pritchard alihitimu shahada ya kwanza katika Masomo ya Kifaransa kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Maryland mnamo 1975, na digrii mbili za uzamili katika Fasihi ya Kifaransa (1976) na Sayansi ya Maktaba (1977) kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Wisconsin-Madison.

Pritchard ameshikilia nyadhifa za uongozi katika taasisi za kitaaluma, akishawishi usimamizi wa maktaba, mipango ya kidijitali, na utafiti wa kitaaluma. Utaalam wake unajumuisha maeneo mbalimbali, ikiwa ni pamoja na masomo ya wanawake, ufeministi, maendeleo ya ukusanyaji, ushirikiano wa teknolojia, mawasiliano ya kitaaluma, na ushirikiano wa maktaba ya kimataifa. Ametoa mchango mkubwa kwa uanuwai na ushirikishwaji ndani ya uwanja wa maktaba ya kitaaluma na utafiti. Sarah Pritchard. Senior Librarian. Educause

Pritchard alianza kazi yake mnamo 1977 katika Maktaba ya Congress ambapo baadaye alikua mtaalamu wa kwanza wa kumbukumbu katika masomo ya wanawake, kisha mkuu wa chumba cha Kusoma cha Microform cha Maktaba.

Mnamo 1988 alichaguliwa kwa mpango wa Baraza la Rasilimali za Maktaba ya Kitaaluma ya Usimamizi wa Maktaba na kisha akahudumu kama Mkurugenzi Mtendaji Mshiriki (1990-1992) wa Chama cha Maktaba za Utafiti."Sarah Pritchard Chosen for CLR Intern Program." Library of Congress Information Bulletin 47 (May 1988):221.

Mnamo 1992 aliteuliwa kuwa Mkurugenzi wa Maktaba katika Chuo cha Smith ambapo alihudumu hadi 1999. In August, ALA Council Member Sarah M. Pritchard Becomes Director of Libraries at Smith College, Northampton, Mass.” 1992. American Libraries 23 (July): 584.

Kuanzia 1999 hadi 2006 Pritchard alikuwa Mkutubi wa Chuo Kikuu katika Chuo Kikuu cha California-Santa Barbara, akisimamia huduma za maktaba, makusanyo, rasilimali za kidijitali, miradi ya mitaji, uchangishaji fedha na mipango ya pamoja.

Mnamo 2006 Pritchard aliteuliwa kuwa Mkutubi wa Chuo Kikuu cha Charles Deering McCormick na Mkuu wa Maktaba katika Chuo Kikuu cha Northwestern Galloway, Ann-Christe. People in the News. College & Research Libraries News, [S.l.], v. 67, n. 5, p. 326-327, May 2006.Date accessed: 08 apr. 2024. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.67.5.7630.Poynder, Richard. The Changing Face of Academic Presses: interview with Sarah Pritchard by Richard Poynder".  Information Today 27:6 (June 2010), p. 44, 48, 50 Alistaafu mnamo 2023. Mafanikio katika kipindi chake cha umiliki ni pamoja na kupanua makusanyo hadi zaidi ya vitu milioni 7, kuunda mpango wa kimkakati wa miaka 20, ujenzi wa maktaba yenye viwango vya juu vya udhibiti wa hali ya hewa, na kuanzisha maktaba yenye viwango vya juu vya kudhibiti hali ya hewa. kibinadamu na usimamizi wa data, ushirikiano mpya na taasisi nyingine za chuo kama vile Block Museum of Art, kusimamia mtindo ulioboreshwa wa biashara kwa University Press, na kuthibitisha rasmi hali ya kitivo cha wakutubi.“Sarah Pritchard: “Dean’s accomplishments forge the world-class research hub this University deserves.”  Footnotes: Northwestern University Library. Spring, 2022:2-7
Dean of Libraries Sarah Pritchard plans to retire in 2022 Longtime dean led transformation of library services Northwestern Now, October 13, 2021.

 Vyama vya kitaaluma na uhariri 

Pritchard ameshikilia ofisi nyingi katika vyama vya kitaaluma vya maktaba na muungano wa kikanda, pamoja na miaka 13 kwenye Baraza la Utawala la Jumuiya ya Maktaba ya Amerika (ALA).

Pia alihudumu katika Kamati ya ALA kuhusu Hali ya Wanawake katika Ukutubi, na alikuwa mwenyekiti, Sehemu ya Mafunzo ya Wanawake ya Muungano wa Chuo na Maktaba za Utafiti. Pritchard, S. M. (1989). "The impact of feminism on women in the profession." Library Journal, 114(13), 76–77. Alihudumu katika Kikosi Kazi kilichotoa Thesaurus ya Wanawake.Capek, Mary Ellen, ed.  A Women’s Thesaurus: An Index of Language Used to Describe and Locate Information By and About Women.  NY: Harper and Row, 1987.Sarah M. Pritchard oral history interview, 2022. The Ways of Knowing Oral History Collection. 2022.

Mnamo 2003, Gavana wa California, Gray Davis, alimteua Pritchard kama mwanachama wa Bodi ya Maktaba ya California.

Pritchard alikuwa mkusanyaji wa machapisho ya Chama cha Maktaba za Utafiti, Takwimu za ARL (1989-91) na Utafiti wa Mishahara wa ARL (1990-91).Pritchard, Sarah M. “New Directions for ARL Statistics,” ARL Newsletter 161 (March, 1992): 1-5.

Pritchard alikuwa mwanachama mwanzilishi wa bodi ya portal - Libraries and the Academy iliyochapishwa na Johns Hopkins University Press na mhariri kuanzia 2009-2014. Lowry, Charles. “Passing the Baton,” portal: Libraries and the Academy, v. 4, no. 1 (January 2004), p. vii – viii.  Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2004.0014.

Alihudumu katika Bodi ya Kituo cha Maktaba za Utafiti kuanzia 2017-2020. Center for Research Libraries. New 2017 CRL Board Members and Officers (April 27, 2017).

Pritchard amealikwa kuwasilisha utafiti wake katika mikutano ya kitaaluma huko Uropa, Asia na Amerika Kusini, “The Alexandria Digital Library: Research to Production and Beyond.” With Larry Carver and David Valentine. Proceedings, Digital Library: Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization. Beijing, China, Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House, September 2004.“Models for Program Development in Regional Library Systems.”  In Perspectives in Higher Education Reform; based on the Second Annual Conference of the Alliance of Universities for Democracy, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, November 3–6, 1991, pp. 55-70.  Knoxville:  East European Center, University of Tennessee, 1992.“Planning Digital Libraries: Definitions and Decisions.”  [conference on] The Challenges of Digital Libraries, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, August 21, 2014. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18131 (accessed April 10, 2024).  na kuwasilisha programu, "Maktaba na Kudumu kwa Maarifa," kama Mhadhara wa George Carlington Simmons katika Chuo Kikuu cha Karibea Kusini mnamo 2018.

Alihudumu katika Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya Chama cha Maktaba za Utafiti kuanzia 2019-2022. Price, Gary. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors 2019–2020 Elected by ARL Membership. Infodocket (September 26, 2019).

Alikuwa mkurugenzi mwanzilishi wa Chicago Collections Consortium shirika la maktaba, makumbusho, jamii za kihistoria, na mashirika mengine ya urithi wa kitamaduni yanayoshirikiana kuhifadhi na kukuza historia ya eneo la Chicago. na alihudumu katika Halmashauri yake kwa zaidi ya miaka 10, ikijumuisha watatu kama mwenyekiti. 

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