Career
Atkinson worked at Northwestern University from 1977 until 1983 when he left to become an assistant university librarian for collection development at the University of Iowa. In 1988, he moved to Cornell University where he was an associate librarian for collections until his death. Atkinson was named the 2003 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries (Association of College and Research Libraries), a division of the American Library Association (American Library Association).
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MacEwan, Bonnie (2005), Community, Collaboration, and Collections: The Writings of Ross Atkinson.