Anne Grodzins Lipow

Anne Lipow (February 27, 1935 – September 9, 2004) was a prominent librarian who worked at the University of California, Berkeley Libraries before retiring from Berkeley and starting her own business, Library Solutions Institute and Press, in 1992.

Lipow was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her brother is physicist Lee Grodzins, and her sister, Ethel Grodzins Romm, is an author and Co-Chair of the Lyceum Society. She moved to Berkeley, California, from New York with her first husband Arthur Lipow in 1957 to attend graduate school. She received her MLS degree from UC Berkeley's Library School, graduating in 1960. She joined the staff of the UC Berkeley Library in 1961. In 1973 she created the BAKER document delivery service, which remains in service today. In 1982 she was appointed Education Officer for the UC Berkeley Libraries. In that role she developed a series of technology and library training courses for faculty, staff, and students. She retired as UC's library information officer in 1991 to start her own consulting service Library Solutions Institute.

Library Solutions Institute and Press went on to publish dozens of titles relating to libraries, technology, and new strategies for serving library clientele. Various workshops were also held around the world regarding these topics.

Anne Lipow and her colleagues created the first training materials on how to use the Internet for librarians. These materials were then used for workshops put on by the Library Solutions Institute and Press, UC Berkeley Extension, Infopeople (a California library training organization), and other professional organizations. Crossing the Internet Threshold was translated into Romanian, Bulgarian, and Turkish, and used in those countries to train librarians. It was also translated into Spanish and used widely in South America and elsewhere.

Her publications on the changing nature of reference work in libraries were very influential, and led to invited speaking engagements around the world.

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