Park Library News
June 1, 2009
New Director of the Park Library:
Stephanie Willen Brown
- swbrown [at] unc [dot] edu
- 919.843.8300
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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!