American library and information science educator
Michèle V. Cloonan (born July 14, 1955) is an American library and information science educator. She is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, in Boston, Massachusetts, and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons. She is an advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage.
Cloonan is known for her interdisciplinary approach to the study of preservation. She has examined preservation's cultural, political, social, and historical aspects and called for an increased respect for cultural differences in the preservation of cultural objects. She has also studied the role of women in book trade history with a particular focus on bookbinding and collecting.
Biography.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Cloonan graduated from Bennington College in 1975. She has an A.M. in the humanities from the University of Chicago, and an M.S., and Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Illinois.
Cloonan has worked as a book conservator (Newberry Library), a preservation administrator (Brown University) and rare book curator (Smith College). At UCLA she was an assistant and associate professor, and chair of the Department of Information Studies (1997-2002). At Simmons University she was dean and professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 2002-2012. Since then she has been professor and Dean Emerita at Simmons.
From 2013-2018 she was editor of "Preservation, Digital Technology &amp; Culture", published by De Gruyter"." She has served on the board of directors of the Northeast Document Conservation Center since 2017.
She is the proprietor of the Doe Press, with her husband Sidney E. Berger. Publications include: Thom Gunn. "Lament," 1985; Ernest Kroll. "Six Letters to An Apprentice," 1994; Donald Justice. "Banjo Dog," 1995, and Michele Cloonan, "The Invisible Presence of Gertrude Stiles," 2010.
Also with Sidney E. Berger, she compiled a collection of more than 22,000 pieces of paper, now the Berger-Cloonan Collection of Decorated Paper at the Cushing Library, Texas A&amp;M University.
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