Kenneth J. Peterson is the Associate Librarian for Access & Collection Strategies at Dartmouth College Library. He leads the library in developing and implementing effective strategies for the access, discovery, development and management of its collections and information resources in support of the mission of Dartmouth.
Before coming to Dartmouth, he was the Director of Access Services at Harvard Library, where he led Access Services which included circulation, interlibrary loan and collection management. In addition to the forward facing services he led the management of Harvard’s Depository which houses over 10 million items from Harvard’s collections.
Prior to joining the Academic Library community, he held multiple positions at the Boston Public Library which included being a Government Documents Librarian, Writer and Editor, and Boston Massachusetts Regional Library Administrator.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire, Durham and a Master’s of Science in Library Science from Simmons College, Boston.