{"id":10867,"date":"2019-05-08T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10867"},"modified":"2019-05-08T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:21:12","slug":"amanda-strauss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/amanda-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement | Amanda Strauss Named Associate University Librarian for Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Strauss as Associate University Librarian for Special Collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Associate University Librarian, Ms. Strauss will oversee the University\u2019s outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique and special materials. Reporting to and working in close partnership with Joseph Meisel, Joukowsky Family University Librarian, she will oversee the curators, staff, and operations of the John Hay Library and provide leadership for special collections stewardship, acquisitions, scholarly programming, research and education services, and resource development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the course of an extensive nationwide search, Ms. Strauss, who is currently Manager of Special Projects and Digital Services at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University\u2019s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, impressed Library staff and participating faculty members with her experience and compelling ideas for advancing the mission of special collections at Brown. University Librarian Meisel said, \u201cI am delighted that Amanda will be joining the Brown University Library in this critical leadership position. She will bring a dynamic vision to the John Hay Library and raise its profile as one of the nation\u2019s great special collections libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dAs a member of the Brown University Library\u2019s senior leadership team, Ms. Strauss will be a key contributor to shaping the Library\u2019s strategic directions, advancing Library-wide planning and evaluation, and developing policies and procedures to promote operational excellence. She will work with faculty and Library staff to promote the use of Brown\u2019s special collections holdings in research, teaching, exhibitions, outreach, and public programs across all academic divisions, while also bringing to bear her knowledge of the array of current tools for developing innovative digital initiatives for enhancing delivery of special collections content and services to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An essential part of Ms. Strauss\u2019 work will be to actively develop and contribute to initiatives that advance diversity and inclusion in special collections and throughout the Library. She will direct the Hay\u2019s curatorial staff in evaluating collections strengths, setting acquisition priorities, and establishing effective collection management practices. How special collections are understood and used\u2014especially through the lens of equity and inclusion\u2014is an area where she brings experience and insight. Drawing upon her success at promoting institutional collaborations at the Schlesinger Library, Ms. Strauss will also help build stronger programmatic ties with other institutions at Brown, such as the John Carter Brown Library, the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, as well as exploring new opportunities for external partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms.\u00a0Strauss\u00a0earned both her MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies and her MA in History from Simmons College. She also holds a BA in History and Spanish from Willamette University. The author of \u201cTreading the Ground of Contested Memory: Archivists and the Human Rights Movement in Chile\u201d (Archival Science<\/em>\u00a02015), she is a scholar of human rights archives as well as twentieth century women\u2019s movements in the United States. Her path into special collections administration is rooted in research services, where she specialized in teaching with primary sources. While at Schlesinger, her particular focus\u00a0has been\u00a0on visioning and managing the library\u2019s cutting-edge digital services program. Among other accomplishments at Schlesinger, Ms.\u00a0Strauss\u00a0developed and managed\u00a0significant grant-funded projects, notably the\u00a0Long 19th<\/sup>\u00a0Amendment Project<\/em>, which commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment, as well as the large-scale effort to\u00a0document the digital footprint of the #metoo movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms.\u00a0Strauss\u2019 first day at the Brown University Library will be July 1. We look forward to welcoming her to Brown and working together to develop a compelling and creative vision to strengthen the activities and wider visibility of the John Hay Library as a center of scholarship and education.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Strauss as Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. As Associate University Librarian, Ms. Strauss will oversee the University\u2019s outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique and special materials. Reporting to and working in close partnership with Joseph Meisel, Joukowsky Family University Librarian, she will oversee … Announcement | Amanda Strauss Named Associate University Librarian for Special Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35,8,155,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections","category-staff-transitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}