Background: Mary Piorun, MSLS, AHIP is the Associate Director for Technology Initiatives and Resource Management at the Lamar Soutter Library of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Before joining UMass in 1999, Mary was a systems librarian at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Rockville, MD, and served in various other professional and intern positions in libraries in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Mary received her MSLS from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. and a Masters in Business Administration at Bentley College. Mary is a member of the Medical Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter and is currently a NML/AAHSL Fellow.

Areas of Interest: Library Administration, Management, Integrated Library Systems, Digital Repositories, Scanning/Digitization Programs, Process Improvement, Library Technologies, Internet.