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 MIT and Hewlett Packard to develop the DSpace digital repository system, and supporting MIT OpenCourseWare, one of the earliest large-scale projects to provide open access to university course materials.

She also championed MIT's adoption of an open access mandate in 2009, the first of its kind in the United States.

[1] 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);[2] as the council chair of the International Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR);[3] and served in significant advisory roles in many other organizations.

[4] Wolpert earned a BA from Boston University and an MLS from Simmons College.

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