Transformer.(MOVERS & SHAKERS 2011: change agents)(John Palfrey)

JOHN PALFREY

HARVARD LAW

SCHOOL LIBRARY, BOSTON

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With the publication of Boro Digital, a seminal study of Internet use by the "digital natives" who've grown up with it (and one of LJ's Best Sci-Tech Books for 2008), John Palfrey got on the library world's radar the same year he joined the field. In 2008, Palfrey, then executive director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, was appointed--by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, then dean of Harvard Law--as both vice dean of library and information resources at Harvard Law and the Harvard Law Library's director.

"On so many of the most pressing issues …