I had posted this over at LHRT list & StanleyK Yahoo group too...
Excerpts from the ArtsBeat Blog post of the NY Times --please excuse
any duplication
Sharing for all interested -- / Best, Karen Weaver
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/former-head-of-schomburg-center-to-\
run-howard-university-libraries
February 17, 2012, 4:35 PM
"Former Head of Schomburg Center to Run Howard University Libraries"
By FELICIA R. LEE
"Howard Dodson, who retired last summer as the director of the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, said he
has been appointed the director of Howard University Libraries and its
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. The center and the libraries at the
historically black university in Washington hold 2.5 million volumes.
The library system has had an interim director since 2010 and the
research center has had an acting director since 2010."...
EXCERPTS:
..."The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center has one of the world's
largest collections of documents related to the history and culture of
people of African descent. But much of its materials have not been
processed or cataloged, Mr. Dodson said. During Mr. Dodson's tenure at
the Schomburg, which began in 1984, his wide-ranging acquisitions and
major exhibitions burnished its reputation as a premiere multifaceted
center for black culture and research library. The Schomburg is part
of the New York Public Library."... excerpts from the NY Times Arts Beat blog
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Karen Weaver, MLS / Electronic Resources Statistician, Collection Management, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: weaverk@duq.edu / Gmail: (preferred): melvil4u@gmail.com
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