Meet the NITLE Staff

Michael Nanfito

Associate Director for Strategy

Michael Nanfito is the associate director for strategy at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). He develops and directs NITLE’s organizational strategy, working in close collaboration with NITLE’s executive director, national advisory board, and member community.

Mr. Nanfito has a background in libraries, networked information resources, and technology-related entrepreneurial activity. He has worked in the area of networked information resources since the late 1980s, at that time developing electronic library databases in the library database industry. While completing requirements for the MLIS, he designed and delivered a professional development program facilitating Internet resource training for librarians in California.

In the 1990s, Mr. Nanfito served as a consultant to the Microsoft Corporate Library to identify information needs across the organization and to develop a strategy to implement web-based library portals. He subsequently worked as an entrepreneur and consultant in a variety of capacities in the Seattle area, including developing large data-driven web environments and consulting services to bring small libraries up to speed on emerging online library resources. Mr. Nanfito also collaborated with other local technology entrepreneurs to explore and develop web-based software tools to organize resources available on the Web.

A 2002 Frye Fellow, Mr. Nanfito previously served as associate library director and then director of instructional technology at the University of Puget Sound. One of his primary interests and efforts while at the University wast the development of a digital asset management program to digitize, organize, and provide access to academic resources housed in departmental collections.

Mr. Nanfito holds the MLIS and a BA in history (San Jose State University).