Nina Davis-Millis

Nina Davis-Millis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (minutes)

Nina Davis-Millis, information technology librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spelled out some of the real-world problems faced by librarians who want to provide access to users at low cost with an easy interface.Because our environment is so open, she said, we often can't comply with the security measures in vendors' contracts.Urging librarians to keep the pressure on both systems people and vendors to comply with our needs, she warned that "The way the digital library develops today will shape what our services are, what our policies are, and who we are as professionals and individuals."

Nina Davis-Millis, information technology librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spelled out some of the real-world problems faced by librarians who want to provide access to users at low cost with an easy interface.Because our environment is so open, she said, we often can't comply with the security measures in vendors' contracts.Urging librarians to keep the pressure on both systems people and vendors to comply with our needs, she warned that "The way the digital library develops today will shape what our services are, what our policies are, and who we are as professionals and individuals."

Nina Davis-Millis, information technology librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spelled out some of the real-world problems faced by librarians who want to provide access to users at low cost with an easy interface.Because our environment is so open, she said, we often can't comply with the security measures in vendors' contracts.Urging librarians to keep the pressure on both systems people and vendors to comply with our needs, she warned that "The way the digital library develops today will shape what our services are, what our policies are, and who we are as professionals and individuals."

Nina Davis-MillisHead of Systems and Technology ServicesMIT Libraries

The two MIT administrators who filed the petition are former Counseling and Support Services Dean Arthur Henderson and Nina Davis-Millis, housemaster of Random Hall where Shin lived and was found to have died by self-inflicted burns in 2000.
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In their petition, Davis-Millis and Henderson argue that McEvoy's decision to allow charges against them to continue to trial violates Massachusetts law, which states that non-clinicians have responsibility to prevent suicide only in cases where they either caused the suicidal condition or the person involved was in their custody, neither of which was true in the Shin case.

Nina Davis-Millis - Past ChairHead, Systems And Technology ServicesMIT Libraries77 Massachusetts AvenueRoom 14-0330Cambridge, MA 02139Phone: 617-253-5652ninadm@mit.edu

Nina Davis-Millis - ChairHead, Systems And Technology ServicesMIT Libraries77 Massachusetts AvenueRoom 14-0330Cambridge, MA 02139617-253-5652ninadm@mit.edu

Nina Davis-Millis - ChairHead, Systems And Technology ServicesMIT Libraries77 Massachusetts AvenueRoom 14-0330Cambridge, MA 02139617-253-5652ninadm@mit.edu
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Nina Davis-Millis, Chair Elect and Program Committee ChairHead, Systems And Technology ServicesMIT Libraries77 Massachusetts AvenueRoom 14-0330Cambridge, MA 02139617-253-5652ninadm@mit.edu
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Nina Davis-MillisHead, Systems And Technology ServicesMIT Libraries77 Massachusetts AvenueRoom 14-0330Cambridge, MA 02139617-253-5652ninadm@mit.edu

Davis-Millis contacted an MIT doctor, who decided she didn't need to be hospitalized.
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McEvoy said Davis-Millis and a MIT dean, Arnold Henderson, had a "special relationship" with Shin that allowed them to "reasonably foresee that Elizabeth would hurt herself without proper supervision."