Career
As director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries from 1996 to 2013, she was instrumental in a variety of projects, including leading an initiative between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett Packard to develop the DSpace digital repository system, and supporting Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare, one of the earliest large-scale projects to provide open access to university course materials. She also championed Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s adoption of an open access mandate in 2009, the first of its kind in the United States. She advised and contributed to many core library organizations as well as initiatives that sought to transform the way research institutions and their libraries collaborate to solve large problems.
Over her career, she served on the boards of directors of the Boston Library Consortium, the National Academies’ Board of Research Data and Information (BRDI), DuraSpace, and the Digital Preservation Network (DPN).
On the steering committee of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). As the council chair of the International Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
And served in significant advisory roles in many other organizations. Wolpert earned a Bachelor from Boston University and an Master of Library Science from Simmons College.
From 1967 to 1976, she was librarian at the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
From 1976 to 1992, she worked for Arthur Doctorate. Little. From 1993 to 1995, she was director of library and information services, at Harvard Business School. From 1996 to 2013, she was the Director of Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As director of libraries, Wolpert managed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
In 2005, she was president of the Association of Research Libraries.
