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Brown University Library Hires New Materials Conservator
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We are very pleased to announce that Rachel Lapkin has joined the Brown University Library as Materials Conservator. Rachel was the Conservator at The New York Botanical Garden Library, a position she held since 2007. She also had previous experience as a conservator at the Newberry Library in Chicago, at the University of Iowa, and at Indiana University. Rachel earned her Masters in Library Science with a Specialization in Special Collections from Indiana University, 2001.
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New Resource and Acquisition Management (RAM) Librarian
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We are pleased to announce the hiring of Teresa Negrucci as Resource and Acquisition Management (RAM) librarian. Teresa was previously Collection Assessment and Management Librarian at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins. She also worked in technical services at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and at USC Law Library, also in L.A. Teresa holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and earned her MLIS at UCLA. She will be reporting to Steve Thompson. Her workspace will be in the Rock.
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Señor Americanus: Lincoln’s Man in Peru
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Christopher Robinson Exhibition A battered box. An invitation to a bull fight to celebrate Chilean Independence Day. A slightly worn uniform of heavy blue wool, found with a turkish cigarette in the pocket of its jacket. A game called Swiss Sticks. These are a few of the items displayed in our new exhibition on Christopher Robinson, who served the United States as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Peru during the Civil War.
The exhibition — a collaborative effort by filmmaker and collector Elizabeth Vangel of non-profit Foss Media, and the John Hay Library, follows the trajectory of Christopher Robinson (Brown 1825) from his roots in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, throught his stint as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the American Consulate in Lima during the Civil War. This little known Brown alumnus — a renowned lawyer in his day — was a key player in the effort to write a state constitution for Rhode Island, and an unfettered advocate for democracy in the United States and abroad. Beloved in Peru, Robinson made friends and contacts easily, even meeting with Garibaldi in Europe at an international peace conference in 1867.
The exhibition has been endorsed by the Rhode Island Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, and is on view at the Hay Library’s North Gallery from May 15 through September 23, 2011.