Alice Pearman is a former FSU graduate student and Libraries Assistant. She left in 2011 for her first professional librarian position at Southern New Hampshire University where she led a project building an institutional repository. Following this, Pearman worked at the Boston Athenaeum and then YBP before finding herself at Plymouth State where she worked as the Digital Collections Librarian where she gradually transitioned into a collection management position. Currently, Pearman works at the University of Massachusetts Lowell as the Assistant Director for Library Collections.
While being flexible with her various career paths, Pearman holds a fondness for digital projects (specifically making cultural heritage materials available to the public digitally), reveling in making the unattainable attainable. Her assistantship at FSU Libraries, working in technical services, gave her increased awareness of all the services that the Libraries provides and as a result, Pearman recommends that all prospective librarians and library employees work any position at a library at least once. Pearman also specifically credits her time at FSU Libraries with teaching her several skills, which proved to be useful in her later career, namely project management, cataloging experience, and exposure to different softwares. For supervisors, Pearman recommends allowing their part-time employees and interns to work in different areas, diversifying their experiences.
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