Dominique Coulombe, Senior Scholarly Resources Librarian, has been tapped to chair the steering committee for the Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL). CIFNAL promotes and facilitates the cooperative exchange of ideas and resources between French and North American libraries through a working group formed under the aegis of the Global Resources Network … Brown Librarian picked to head Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries

The Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library announced last week the appointment of Edward L. Widmer as the new Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, effective on July 1, 2006. Since 2001 Dr. Widmer has served as the inaugural director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study … Edward L. Widmer Named Director of the John Carter Brown Library

Harriette Hemmasi, executive associate dean of libraries at Indiana University at Bloomington, will join Brown University on September 1, 2005 as the Joukowsky Family University Librarian. See: News Story