Alicja Altenberger (Sitek)
Librarian
Born June 28, 1945, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1981; daughter of Piotr and Genowefa (Nowakowska); married Andrzej Altenberger.
Education: B.L.S., University of Warsaw, 1969; M.L.S., University of Wroclaw (Poland), 1973; diploma, Community College, Minneapolis (MN), 1983, Harvard University Cambridge (MA), 1985.
Career: librarian, 1968-79, lecturer, library director, 1979-81, Chemical Department, University of Warsaw; information specialist, bibliographer, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science Department, 1982-84, cataloger, Wilson Library, 1983-84, University of Minnesota; co-organizer, librarian, Solidarity Bibliography Center, 1985-86, head cataloger, reference librarian, Graduate School of Education, 1986, Harvard University; consultant, United States Information Agency, Washington (DC), and Foundation in Support of Local Democracy, Rutgers University, 1991.
Author: consultant, organizer, Network of Information Centers for Local Governments (Poland), since 1991; various articles in professional and other journals in U.S. and Poland.
Member of: American Library Association; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Polish Studies Association; Harvard University Librarians Professional Development Committee; Support of Solidarity, Cambridge, 1985-90.
Honors: grants, National Endowment for Humanities, 1985-86, United States Information Agency 1991. Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, Russian, German.
Hobbies: skiing, writing, jazz.
Home: 41 Bowdoin St. #47, Cambridge MA 02138
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996