Roberta I. Shaffer Appointed Executive Director of FLICC and FEDLINK
Roberta I. Shaffer has been named executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) and the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) at the Library of Congress.
Shaffer holds degrees from Vassar College, Emory University and Tulane University. She comes to the Library from the University of Maryland at College Park, where she served as director of External Relations and Program Development in the College of Information Studies and where she developed a new master's of information management degree program.
Prior to that, Shaffer was dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin, served as a Fulbright senior research scholar at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the Portuguese Ministry of Justice, and worked as a special assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress.
Jeffrey Page Appointed Chief Financial Officer
Jeffrey Page has been appointed chief financial officer of the Library of Congress.
Page comes to the Library of Congress from the Corporation for National and Community Service, where he served as the budget director for the past six years. As budget director he managed two large budget programs and supervised four divisions within the Office of Budget and Program Performance.
He worked for the Peace Corps from 1993 until 1998. He was appointed assistant Peace Corps director for administration in 1993. In that position, Page directed administrative and financial operations for the Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa. From 1995 until 1996, he served as the Peace Corps country director there, managing all aspects of the program in that nation.
As senior budget analyst at the Peace Corps, he oversaw the budget planning operations for Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia, and the Africa region. As budget implementation team manager, he directed a staff of 11 and oversaw budget and financial planning for two headquarters departments and the overseas operations for the Inter-America and Pacific regions.
Fluent in Swahili, Page earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Davis.
Prior to coming to the Library, Hanratty was executive director of the Governor's Information Practices Commission in Annapolis, Md., and a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He holds a bachelor's degree from Fordham University and master's and doctorate degrees in political science from Duke University.
Dennis Hanratty Appointed Director of Human Resources Services
Dennis Hanratty has been appointed director of Human Resources Services (HRS).
He began his Library of Congress career in 1985 in the Federal Research Division, where he progressed from the position of analyst to unit supervisor. In 1990 he became the special assistant to the Associate Librarian for Management and assisted in the day-to-day management and direction of the Library's infrastructure units. In 1993 he was named the special assistant to the acting Associate Librarian for Science and Technology Information. During this appointment he co-authored the publication "Delivering Electronic Information in a Knowledge-Based Democracy."
In September 1993 Hanratty was appointed special assistant to the director for Human Resources and became involved in all facets of personnel and human resources' management. In 2002 he became the director of Strategic Planning and Automation for HRS and managed the Library's voluntary separation and early retirement programs and the Human Resources Information System, including major enhancements for automating, tracking and processing personnel actions, reports and processes. He also served as the HRS budget officer and manager of the LC Events Web site.
Giulia Adelfio Named Visitor Services Officer
Giulia Adelfio has been named visitor services officer for the Library.
Adelfio joined the Library's Interpretive Programs Office in 1995. As an exhibition director, her primary responsibility was to manage national and international tours of some of the Library's most important exhibitions, including "Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America," "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames," "Religion and the Founding of the American Republic" and "Churchill and the Great Republic."
Prior to coming to the Library, Adelfio was director of traveling exhibitions at Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C. Before that, she worked at Bethesda Travel Center, arranging tours for groups from Italy to the United States and South America.
Adelfio holds a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal.
