Biography

Miriam Drake is Professor Emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to writing for Information and Searcher editor of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, she consults for government and industry. In 2001 Ms Drake retired as Dean and Director of Libraries and Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to going to Georgia Tech Ms. Drake served as Assistant Directors of the Libraries and Audio Visual Center at Purdue University. She spent 14 years in the private sector as a management consultant and transportation economist. Ms Drake is author of more than 100 journal articles and conference papers on management and the management of technology and knowledge and information systems. Ms Drake is immediate past president of the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers. She also served as President of the Special Libraries Association, chairman of the Board of Trustees of OCLC, Trustee of Simmons College, and editorial boards and visiting committees. Ms Drake is recipient of the Hugh Atkinson Award from the American Library Association and the John Cotton Dana Award from the Special Libraries Association. She received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Indiana University and an honorary Doctorate of Library Science from Simmons College.