Martha Brogan is the Director of Collection Development, Global Studies & Scholarly Communication. She has primary responsibility for policy, planning and fiscal management of Penn Library's $15 million acquisitions program, overseeing a collection of 6 million volumes and guiding the work of thirty subject librarians with collection responsibilities. She provides campus leadership on issues related to managing Penn's collections, digital content development, area studies, scholarly communication and publishing alternatives. Her experience in research libraries spans 30 years, beginning at the University of Minnesota where she was the library coordinator for West European Studies. She later moved to Yale as the social sciences bibliographer, and then to Indiana University as associate dean and director of Collection Development. Ms. Brogan is the author of several reports about digital library development prepared under the auspices of the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ms. Brogan received a bachelor's degree in French (Phi Beta Kappa) from Macalester College and holds master's degrees in International Administration from the School for International Training (Brattleboro, Vermont) and Library Science from the University of Minnesota. She participated as a fellow in the Frye Leadership Institute sponsored by CLIR, EDUCAUSE and Emory University in 2001 and as a NEH Summer Institute Fellow in 2006.
Trends in Digital Scholarship
Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2006)
This report updates and expands on "A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services," originally commissioned...
A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature (with Daphnée Rentfrow), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2005)
The word kaleidoscope comes from a Greek phrase meaning "to view a beautiful form," and...
A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2003)
This report provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library...
The United Nations Scholars' Workstation at Yale University, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1997)
This chapter describes the creative and technical processes that led to the realization of a...
A Customized Database on Scandinavian Government (with Robert B. Kvavik), Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1988)
The development of the Scandinavian political studies database is a joint project of Martha Brogan,...
Social and Cultural History
Family Values: Lessons in Material Culture, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2005)
As a research librarian for the past twenty years, I have often envied the scholar...
European Studies
Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1991)
This guide, eight years in the making, owes its existence to the Council of European...
Mapping Library Resources in Dutch Studies Through the Conspectus, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1990)
The academic library profession has a long tradition of responding to two conflicting forces: local...
Afterword: Organizing for Western European Studies: The Pioneering Stage, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1984)
In his 1975 essay, "Library Resources on Western Europe in the United States: A Critique,"...
International Education
Trends in International Education: New Imperatives in Academic Librarianship, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1990)
The author describes new directions in international education during the past decade and links them...
Book Reviews
Review of Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1996)
This ambitious volume calls upon a cadre of international specialists, ranging from scholars to practitioners,...
Review of Joan E. Seiber, ed., Sharing Social Science Data: Advantages and Challenges, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1993)
This concise and straightforward collection of essays, written by leading authorities who create, document, disseminate,...
Review of Irving Louis Horowitz, Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1992)
Communicating Ideas is the "second expanded edition," released in a paperback by Transaction Publishers, of...
Review of Robert B. Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1992)
In his latest book, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism, Robert B....
Review of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (1991)
Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life offers scholars in the humanities, broadly conceived, a...