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Celebrate Black History Month with us.

  • Come to the second floor of the library and see some books about African Americans and mass media
  • Download the list of works on display (pdf)

Follow the library on various social networking sites:

  • Twitter Stephanie is tweeting library and journalism news
  • Facebook find other fans of the UNC-CH Carroll Hall Park Library
  • JoMC Park Library blog where Park Library staff blog about their library work and interests.
  • Instant Message JoMCParkLib on various IM sites (AIM, Google Talk, and Yahoo!)
Join us for First Amendment Day at Carolina; October 1, 2009
  • See the display books we've collected about heroes of the first amendment on the second floor of Carroll Hall (list in WorldCat)
  • Browse some of the quotes we've collected about the first amendment (pdf).
  • Banned books & challenges, by state, via a nifty Google map mashup.

Black History Month display, outside the Park Library

Black History Month display, Feb 10

 Books now circulate! Please be familiar with the Park Library loan policies to avoid fines (August 17, 2009).

Food and beverages are permitted in the library. Please review Park Library policies and help us keep the library a great place to study (July 1, 2009).

 

New Director of the Park Library (June 1, 2009):

Stephanie Willen Brown

  • swbrown [at] unc [dot] edu
  • 919.843.8300
  • IM: JoMCParkLib
  • Follow JoMCParkLib on Twitter
  • Find Stephanie on Facebook
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Stephanie comes to the University of North Carolina from the University of Connecticut, where she provided reference to students and faculty in communication science and psychology and served as an electronic resource librarian (licensing journals and databases). Stephanie taught reference and advanced reference classes for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College for 6 years. Prior to her work at UConn, she worked at Hampshire College. She has also worked as the library director for the (then) Springfield, MA Union-News.

Stephanie attended the Poynter Institute seminar "News Libraries: Leadership for the 21st Century" in 1998. She graduated from Simmons College with an M.S. in Library and Information Science and from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in French literature and American history.

Stephanie's professional areas of expertise include providing high quality reference and web site usability, and she has published in both of those areas. She blogs as CogSci Librarian and is active in many Web 2.0 environments including Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed.

Stop by the Park Library to say hello!