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Patricia Albanese
Patricia Albanese is known for innovation, technology, and leadership. From 1980 to 2002, Pat was Director of Libraries at Rochester Institute of Technology. Under Pat's leadership, many innovative technology solutions were implemented. RIT's Wallace Library was one of the first academic libraries in the nation to use computing and information systems to provide network access to library resources as well as introducing wireless computing. Leading creative space projects, Pat oversaw a multi-phased 145,000 square foot library renovation and expansion and, recognizing the need for more social interaction in the library, Pat launched Java Wally's cafe in 2001, now a common trend across the country.
Following RIT, Pat was CIO and Director of Library, Information and Technology Services at Mount Holyoke College. At Mount Holyoke (MHC), she introduced a new open source courseware/e-portfolio management system, a content management system for administering their website, and worked with four other universities in western Massachusetts to launch a shared fiber optic infrastructure. Pat spearheaded the installation of the MHC library's popular Rao's cafe and led a multi-phase renovation project to reconfigure library spaces to match evolving models of learning and collaborative activities. In 2005, under Pat's tutelage, MHC was presented with the ACRL Award for Academic Excellence.
Pat has also been an active leader in statewide consortia and was a founding leader of ConnectNY, NYSHEI, and Partners in Information and Innovation (Pi2), facilitating online access to databases and collections, enhancing service and reducing costs. In service to the profession, she has served as Chair of the OCLC International Task Force on E-Learning and as New York State representative for the OCLC Users Council.
Pat has spoken at major conferences on librarianship and information technology and has presented and consulted across the US and abroad addressing issue concerning facilities, information technology, program reviews and organizational assessment. Most recently Pat held the Gannett Distinguished Professor, one of five endowed professorships at Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences School of Print Media. In this role she used her expertise in the delivery of digitized information as a librarian and a technologist to co-found and direct the Open Publishing Lab which focuses on research in digital publishing and information delivery.