Doris Goldstein, M.L.S., M.A.
Senior Library Advisor for International Initiatives
Doris Goldstein's first job as a 13-year-old seed-corn detasseler was motivation enough to stay in school as long as possible. After earning a master's in German at Nebraska and inspired by a speech by Sargent Shriver, she joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to teach — not German, but English — at Haile Selassie I University in Addis Abeba. When home again, she worked at the Library of Congress and taught German at Bowie State College in Maryland.
After finishing a master's in library science, she was recruited by LeRoy Walters and André Hellegers to set up the KIE's Library just two years after the word "bioethics" was first coined by Hellegers. In its three-plus decades, the Library has had many roles and developed unique special collections: from DNA patents to the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature to helping establish a German bioethics library at the University of Bonn.
Doris's current projects include developing multi-lingual Islamic Bioethics resources in partnership with the SFS-Q Library in Doha, and using bioethics to explore educational and library initiatives in India via the Provost's "Engaging India" program. She hopes to facilitate the interdisciplinary and international exchange of thinking about bioethics at home and globally.