Maija Lutz Named Tozzer Librarian

Maija Lutz, former associate librarian for Technical Services and Collections at Tozzer Library, has been appointed Librarian of the Tozzer Library.

In announcing the appointment, Lynne Schmelz, librarian for the sciences in the Harvard College Library, said, "Maija's knowledge of anthropology and her experience with collection development, management, and planning over the past 15 years at Harvard position her well to administer the Tozzer Library. Maija is a welcome member of my management team, which is focusing on the collaborative development of collections and services among Harvard science libraries. Tozzer Library, currently linked administratively with these libraries, has significant science materials and is facing many of the same issues.

"In addition," said Schmelz, "a number of faculty members in the Department of Anthropology have a science focus to their research and academic affiliations with science departments. Anthropology intersects with a wide range of disciplines, and Maija will also be participating in collection-development efforts and other initiatives relating to the social sciences and humanities."

Lutz said, "I am very excited about this opportunity to be librarian of the premier anthropology library in the country. Tozzer Library has a distinguished history and its holdings serve as a benchmark for anthropology collections all over the world.

"I look forward with great anticipation to working with faculty, students, and staff on building, maintaining, and preserving these outstanding collections, and providing all our users with the most effective access to anthropological materials and information."

During her Harvard Library career, Lutz has been promoted within Tozzer to a series of positions of increasing responsibility. Starting as a library assistant, she soon was appointed cataloger, and then head of Technical Services. In due course she was appointed head of Technical Services and Collection Development Librarian, and then associate librarian. Before coming to Harvard, Lutz taught courses and conducted research in ethnomusicology at Brown University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Northern Colorado. She also made two trips to conduct ethno-musicological fieldwork among the Inuit of Baffin Island and Labrador.

Lutz has been active in Harvard Library committees and professional organizations, especially ACRL/ANSS (the Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries), the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has published many articles and reviews.

Lutz received the A.B. in music from Douglass College in New Brunswick, N.J.; M.Mus. in piano performance from Yale University; Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology from the University of Wisconsin; M.S. in library science from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and Graduate Certificate in management from Radcliffe College.