Anne May

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Anne May , here at the beginning of 2016 at the New Year's reception of the state capital Hanover in the city's new town hall

Anne May (born November 11, 1961 ) is a German literary scholar and librarian . She is director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) in Hanover .

Life

May grew up in Damme in Lower Saxony , studied literature and education at the university there in Osnabrück and then worked for a year in a small bookstore in Damme. She then became a librarian and did her legal clerkship at the University Library in Oldenburg , where she helped set up the first website and an online catalog, and then from 1992/93 at what was then Lower Saxony's State Library in Hanover .

Subsequently, May was, among other things, specialist librarian for education, psychology, economics and sport at the University Library Paderborn and from 1999 library librarian at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture in Hanover.

From 2002 to 2015 Anne May worked as the deputy director of the Technical Information Library and University Library Hanover (TIB / UB), in order to take over the management of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library on January 1, 2016, succeeding Georg Ruppelt .

May is married with a daughter and lives in a village near Seelze .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c May, Anne in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the processing of April 6, 2016, last accessed on May 17, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library: Anne May succeeds Dr. Georg Ruppelt , hannover.de, accessed on January 9, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Simon Benne: New director: May heads the Leibniz Library , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , January 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME May, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and director of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1961