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I’m Molly Kleinman. I’m a librarian at the University of Michigan. Much of my work has to do with copyright, academic publishing, and “scholarly communication” in its various forms. I am a graduate of the U-M’s School of Information, and a dedicated advocate of the Creative Commons.
Official-sounding bio
Molly Kleinman is Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan. She works with Dean of Libraries Paul Courant on a broad spectrum of administrative projects and activities, including daily operations, research and writing, financial and personnel management, and maintaining connections to the academic and information communities beyond the University. She also serves as communications coordinator and liaison for Library administration, and serves in an ex-officio capacity to the Library Dean’s Group.
Previously Molly served as Copyright Specialist for the University of Michigan Library, where she organized copyright education and outreach for faculty, staff, and students, worked on author advocacy initiatives, and provided copyright support for the Library’s digital publishing initiatives. She is a member of the 2007-2009 team of Copyright Scholars for ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network, and coordinated the University of Michigan’s first Open Access Week in March. Molly received her B.A. in English and Gender Studies from Bryn Mawr College, and her M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information.
Elsewhere on the web
Or take a look at my CV (pdf) (last updated June, 2009).
There’s also this interview with Creative Commons about open content initiatives and my copyright work at the University of Michigan Library, and this profile in Michigan’s University Record from November, 2008, where you can learn all about my secret life in experimental theater.
Publications
The Beauty of Some Rights Reserved: Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and students. C&RL News, November 2008 Vol. 69, No. 10.
A Few Things Every Instruction Librarian Should Know About Copyright. LOEX Quarterly, Volume 35 Issue 2, Summer 2008. (LOEX Quarterly is only available to subscribers for the first twelve months after publication, so this link takes you to the version that I deposited in our institutional repository).
