Anne May
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_Anne_May,_Direktorin_der_Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz_Bibliothek.jpg) May at the beginning of 2016 at the New Year's reception of the state capital Hanover in the New Town Hall of the city | |
| Born | November 11, 1961 Damme, Lower Saxony |
| Occupation(s) | literary scholar and librarian |
Anne May (born 11 November 1961)[1] is a German literary scholar and librarian. She is the director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library – Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) in Hanover.[2]
Life
May grew up in
literature and educational sciences, and then worked for a year in a small bookstore in Damme. After that, she became a librarian and completed her traineeship, first at the University Library Oldenburg, where she created its first website and an online catalog, and then from 1992 to 1993 at the Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek Hannover.[3]
Subsequently, May was inter alia subject specialist for pedagogy, psychology, economics, and sport at the Paderborn University Library[2] and from 1999 library assistant at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture in Hannover.[1]
From 2002 to 2015, May worked as deputy director of the Technical Information Library and Hannover University Library (TIB/UB), and in January 2106 succeeded Georg Ruppelt as director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library.[1]
May is married, has a daughter, and lives in a village near Seelze.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b c May, Anne in der Datenbank Niedersächsische Personen (Neueingabe erforderlich) der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek – Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek in der Bearbeitung 6 April 2016, retrieved 17 May 2016
- ^ a b Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek: Anne May folgt auf Dr. Georg Ruppelt, hannover.de, accessed 9 January 2016
- ^ a b Simon Benne: Neue Direktorin: May leitet die Leibniz-Bibliothek Archived 2021-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 January 2016
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