It is our pleasure to announce that Carina Cournoyer has joined the Brown University Library as the Scholarly Resources Social Sciences Librarian.

Prior, Carina was the Research & Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences in the Madeline Clark Wallace Library at Wheaton College. She has also worked as a Lecturer and Reference Librarian for URI and as the Library Commons Librarian for Providence College.

Carina has experience teaching social studies at the high school level in Maine and Rhode Island.An active member in ALA, ACRL, HELIN, Carina has also served on the Rhode Island Special Libraries Association (SLA) Executive Board.

She earned her BA in Anthropology / Archaeology and History with a minor in Geography from Rhode Island College and an MLIS from the University of Rhode Island. Carina is a PRISM fellowship recipient for promoting diversity in librarianship and outreach to traditionally under-served or diverse populations.