Associate Head and Collection Manager, MIT Humanities Library

Marlene Manoff has a Ph.D. in English from Brandeis University and Masters Degrees in comparative literature (UCLA) and library and information science (Simmons). She has published articles on the politics of building library collections and on the political and social implications of electronic text. Her essays include “The Materiality of Digital Collections: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives”, “Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines” and “The Symbolic Value of Libraries in a Digital Age”.