David S. Ferriero Recently Confrimed as 10th Archivist of the United States

National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.

Link to December 7 Washington Post article, "Sharing a sense of history: Ferriero is first librarian in charge at National Archives". (via LISNews)

Excerpt: [David S.] Ferriero, who looks as much like an amiable police detective as an academic, was nominated by President Obama on July 28 and confirmed by the Senate on Nov. 6. His name rhymes with "stereo."

He had been director of the research libraries of the New York Public Library system since 2004 and university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University since 1996. He oversaw Duke's $55 million library expansion into two new buildings. Before that, he worked in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library for 31 years.