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Since 1974, Jan Cellucci has worked in and advocated for a wide range of libraries in the United States and in Canada. She earned her MLS from Simmons College in 1974 and received an honorary doctorate in Public Service from Simmons in 2002. She began her professional career as the Assistant Director of the Public Library in Hudson, Massachusetts. When Hudson’s first open-classroom elementary school was being constructed, Mrs. Cellucci was chosen to design the school library. She continued her involvement with libraries by being elected to three consecutive terms on the Hudson Public Library’s Board of Trustees. When her daughters Kate and Anne began elementary school, Mrs. Cellucci volunteered to create a library for their small parochial school. She later worked at Bancroft School in Worcester, Massachusetts, a private K-12 day school, first as the Lower School (K-5) Librarian and then as the school’s Library Director. In her last year at Bancroft, Mrs. Cellucci was awarded the faculty’s highest honor, the Carpe Diem Award, for her success in directing a library that had become the learning hub of the school.
When her daughters began college, Mrs. Cellucci moved to the university level as well. She began her work in academic libraries as the Preservation Manager of the Boston College Libraries. She also joined the advisory board for the Northeast Document Conservation Center, the largest nonprofit, regional conservation center in the United States. Next, as the Associate University Librarian for Collection Services, Mrs. Cellucci supervised the Collection Development and Technical Service Departments of the main campus library, the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Library, named for the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and an alumnus of Boston College.
When her husband Paul was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1998, Mrs. Cellucci was among the few First Ladies in the National Governors’ Spouses membership to be maintaining a full-time career in addition to her public duties. Mrs. Cellucci is a member of the Board of the Massachusetts Children’s Trust Fund, an umbrella organization that leads statewide efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. In 2001, Governor Cellucci resigned to become the United States Ambassador to Canada. Mrs. Cellucci resigned her position at Boston College to join her husband at the Embassy in Ottawa, Ontario.
During her husband’s tenure as Ambassador, Mrs. Cellucci worked as a goodwill ambassador for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. She visited over thirty research libraries and archives across Canada to promote their services and resources to Canadian decision-makers. She joined the University of British Columbia’s Presidential Advisory Council on the University Libraries. She was the Assistant Curator for a rare books exhibit On the Road, Sur La Route at Library and Archives Canada in 2003, and a principal speaker at the Canadian School Library Summit in 2005. During her tenure on the National Commission for Libraries and Information Science, Mrs. Cellucci will continue her duties on the University of British Columbia’s Advisory Council.
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