Anteater Chronicles

Grunigen Fund Acquisitions

GIS Research

Menton Papers Enhance University Archives

3 New Research Librarians

Visit of Ambassador to Vietnam

Library Wish List

Literary Luncheon with Lynette Brasfield

Roxanne Silver on Coping with Trauma

Piano Concert with Nors Josephson

Libraries' Spring Exhibit

 

The Libraries are extremely pleased to have recruited three outstanding Research Librarians who provide services to the schools of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences. These librarians bring extensive subject expertise to their duties, which include collection development, reference service, and instruction.

 

Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry and Earth System Sciences, has more than ten years of experience as an academic librarian in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Mitchell came to UCI from Princeton, where he served as Librarian at the Plasma Physics Laboratory and later as Mathematics and Physics Librarian. He holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas, Austin (1994), and a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon (1988).

 

Sheila Smyth joined the Langson Library Reference Department as Research Librarian for German, Philosophy, Logic & Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies. She has a master’s degree in Library Science from Indiana University at Bloomington (2004) and a B.A. in German and Anthropology from Notre Dame (2002). She also studied at the Goethe Institute in Bonn, Germany.

 

Philip MacLeod is Research Librarian for Spanish and Portuguese and for Latin American Studies. He has a master’s degree in Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University (2005), a Ph.D. (1999) and M.A. (1988) in Latin American Studies from Tulane, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Iowa (1983). His previous experience includes positions at Yale and Tulane.