About the Lab

What’s our story?

We’re a dynamic group of thinkers and doers working to make libraries better by exploring the countless, dimly lit pathways that connect libraries to the larger world.

We focus our energy on a handful of large multi-year projects and a number of small projects we call sketches. Our large projects are ambitious undertakings that reflect our long-term mission and efforts. Sketches are experiments and provocations that are often driven by one or two folks in the Lab.

We’re stationed in the Harvard Law School Library and benefit greatly from the deep legal thinking and scholarship that surrounds us. We often approach library challenges using our law school library lens, but we work hard to make sure our local efforts have broad application. Libraries are universal.

Our group’s culture is freewheelin’ and open. We welcome new ideas and new collaborations. Let’s work together to make libraries better.

Who we are

The people at the Library Lab.

Anastasia Aizman Developer

Anastasia is a developer and designer, and she just came here to say that she's fairly certain everyone is mispronouncing the word "academia".

Samantha Bates Research Associate

Samantha works as a research associate for Professor Zittrain and helps out with Lab projects. She previously worked in the legal department at Google and enjoys running, baking bread, and reading British literature.

email: sbates@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Rebecca Cremona Developer

Becky is into the relationship between matter and meaning. She presently spends most of her time inducing electrons to do her bidding; in the past she’s studied liturgical gesture, tried to make quantum cryptography work, and tended sheep.

email: rcremona@law.harvard.edu
twitter: @RebeccaCremona

Jack Cushman Ombudsman

Jack is an attorney, developer, and tinkerer. He once built a working web server using only a Perl script, a paperclip, and a pack of bubblegum.

Paul Deschner Developer

Paul swims, skis, speaks multiple languages, and likes Finnish literature. He's worked at Harvard since 1990.

email: deschner@law.harvard.edu

Jay Edwards Research Fellow

email: jay@meangrape.com
twitter: @meangrape

Casey Gruppioni Developer

Casey likes power yoga, curating playlists, paddleboarding and pinball. She enjoys working on projects for the greater good.

Brett Johnson Outreach and Support

Brett's a human who'd prefer identifying as a mammal that talks. He's interested in things working and not working and used to unjam printers as IT at an art school but doesn't have the body for that anymore.

email: bjohnson@law.harvard.edu
website: http://forrealdude.tumblr.com

Caitlin Laughlin Perma Admin

Caitlin is a history and politics nerd who spends most of her free time reading about obsure historical events, playing musical soundtracks too loudly, and hanging with her roommates' cats.

email: claughlin@law.harvard.edu

Andy Silva Developer

After learning to program as a kid on a Tandy TRS-80, Andy built a career in technology. He naturally followed up his role as a professional developer with a tour through culinary school. Chef Andy got some sense knocked into him in the kitchen and now he's back in the tech world.

email: asilva@law.harvard.edu
twitter: @SomeInterwebDev

Ben Steinberg Developer

Ben came to software development from his career as a public library reference librarian by way of Perl. He likes making things, including food and analog synths.

email: bsteinberg@law.harvard.edu

Jordi Weinstock Research Fellow

email: jordi.weinstock@gmail.com

Jessamyn West Research Fellow

Adam Ziegler Managing Director

Adam is a lawyer and freethrow champion. He once made an opposing lawyer cry during trial...in a good way. His favorite book is Clovis Crawfish and His Friends.

Jonathan Zittrain Harvard Faculty and Law School Library Director

JZ is a proud dog owner. Oh, and he directs the Law School Library, co-created the Berkman Center, is an EFF board member, and is faculty in the Law School, School of Engineering and Applies Sciences, and the Kennedy School.

email: a2jz@law.harvard.edu
website: http://jz.org
twitter: @zittrain

Collaborators

Friends and fellow travelers.

Zena Agha Summer Fellow

Neel Agrawal Summer Fellow

Karen Beck Manager, Historical & Special Collections

Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Cyberspace explorer

Anna Bialas LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Rachel Binx

Zachary Bodnar Digitization Specialist

Tom Boone Faculty Services Librarian

Annie Cain Developer

June Casey Librarian for Open Access Initiatives & Scholarly Communication

Stephen Chapman Manager, Digital Strategies for Collections

Deborah Chase Digitization Specialist

Kyle K. Courtney Copyright Advisor and Program Manager, HL Office for Scholarly Communication

Emma Cushman Contributing developer

Claire DeMarco Research Librarian

Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America makes the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums freely available to the world.

Kim Dulin former Library Innovation Lab Director

Lindsay Dumas former Digital Projects Archivist

Frances Duncan Contributing designer

Kate Edrington Digitization Specialist

Jake Effoduh Summer Fellow

Antonio Fernandes

Kerri Fleming Digital Projects Archivist

Sara Frug Summer Fellow

Ben Gaucherin

Sarah Glassmeyer Research Fellow

Jeff Goldenson Former LIL Designer

Hans Christian Gregerson LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Harvard Library Lab

Alison Head

Sha Hwang

Michael Jimenez

Dan Jones Digital Media Producer, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Rachel Karasick Summer Fellow

Jane Kelly Historical & Special Collections Assistant

Ilya Kreymer Summer Fellow

Doyung Lee LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Erica Leeman former Digitization Specialist

Greg Leppert Developer

Dustin Lewis former Project Manager (FTL, H2O) and now Senior Researcher at Harvard Law School's PILAC

Andrew MacTaggart Senior Digitization Specialist

Emily Magagnosc Digitization Specialist

Petar Maymounkov

Kate Mays LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Timothy McAllister Reference Librarian, Perma.cc

Muira McCammon Summer Fellow

MetaLAB at Harvard Exploring and expanding the frontiers of networked culture in the arts and humanities

Matt Miller Summer Fellow

Miglena Minkova Summer Fellow

Loren Newman Intern

Alexander Nwala Summer Fellow

Margaret Peachy Curator of Digital Collections

Matt Phillips

Tim Riser LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Lori Schulsinger Collection Development Coordinator

Carli Spina Emerging Technologies and Research Librarian

Zach Tan LIL and Berkman Summer Intern

Shailin Thomas Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Caleb Troughton

Tiff Tseng Summer Fellow

Caroline Walters Collection Development Librarian for U.S. Law

David Weinberger

Reid Whitaker Summer Fellow

Dano Williams Designer

Suzanne Wones former Executive Director, Harvard Law School Library

Rosten Woo

Yunhan Xu Contributing statistician

Jessica Yurkofsky

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