BROWN - Key Persons
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- Assistant Registrar for Systems Management
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- Senior Library Expert - Stewardship and Communications
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Assistant Registrar for Graduate & Professional Education
- Graduate & Professional Student Services
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- Computer Science / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Senior Library Specialist, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services
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- Public Humanities / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Senior Library Expert, OUL, Sciences and Music Libraries
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- Assistant Director for the John Hay Library and University Archivist
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- Senior Library Specialist
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- Librarian, Art and Architecture
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- Assistant Director of Special Collections for Art and Exhibitions
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Director, Library Communications and Public Programs
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- Vice President for Research
- Dean of the College
- Dean of the Faculty
- Provost Office
- Survey Research Center
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- Designer, Digital Publications / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Senior Library Expert, Special Collections, Archives
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- Senior Library Specialist, Collections Care, Library Collections Annex
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- Senior Library Technologist, Library Digital Technologies / Library
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- Director, Library Facilities
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services, Interlibrary Loan
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- Development Studies / Resource Guide
- Education Studies / Resource Guide
- International & Public Affairs / Resource Guide
- Political Science / Resource Guide
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- Digital Fellow, Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Economics / Resource Guide
- Public Policy / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
- Statistics & Data Services / Resource Guide
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- Auxiliary Housing Coordinator
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- STEM Instruction Librarian
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- Director, Center for Digital Scholarship / Center for Digital Scholarship
In a Washington Post forum, Brown President Christina Paxson defended the role that academic freedom plays in advancing knowledge.
Christina Paxson became Brown's 19th president in 2012. In recognition of her record of transformational impact and growth, the Corporation of Brown University extended her tenure through June 30, 2026. As chief executive officer, President Paxson reports to the Corporation, oversees all divisions of Brown's administration, and is chief ambassador for the University. Nationally recognized as a leader in higher education and an accomplished scholar, she is a professor of economics and public policy.
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- Senior Associate Registrar for Systems and Quality Assuranc
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- Assistant CIO, Enterprise Applications and Software Engineering
Chris joined Brown in 2007 as the Director of Information Technology for the College. He joined
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- Head of Library Community Engagement / Center for Library Exploration and Research
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- Head, Special Collections Instruction and Curator, Literary and Popular Culture
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- Senior Library Specialist - Technical Services - Acquisitions
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- Senior Library Associate Specialist, Collections Care Materials Processing, Preservation
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- Librarian, Social Sciences
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- Open Sciences Librarian / Health and Biomedical Library Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, Special Collections, Technical Services
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- Government Information / Resource Guide
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- Library Technical Assistant II, OUL, Mailroom
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- Deputy University Librarian
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- Assistant CIO, IT Support & Customer Experienc
As the Assistant CIO, IT Support & Customer Experience, Don leads the OIT teams who support the Brown community for their general technical needs. His group includes the IT Service Center, IT Support Consultants, Media Services, Print Services, Hardware Services, Software Services, Endpoint Engineering, and IT Communications. These skilled and helpful teams know what matters to Brown faculty, staff, students and alumni, and are their trusted partners in using technology effectively for teaching, learning, research, and administration.
Don has supported IT at Brown since 1998, first in the Department of Sociology, followed by the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences. He then joined the Office of Information Technology in 2017. Don graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art. His background includes extensive work in support, communications, service quality, and customer satisfaction in the academic and administrative environments in higher ed.
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- Head of GIS and Data Services
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- Student Services Coordinator
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- Head, Collections Services and Metadata
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- Senior Library Technologist, Special Collections
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- Chemistry / Resource Guide
- Engineering / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Medicine & Life Sciences / Resource Guide
- Public Health / Resource Guide
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- Library Human Resources Specialist
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- Director, Academic Engagement
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- Senior Library Technologist, Library Digital Technologies / Library
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- Head, Academic Engagement Liaison Services
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- Curator, Iberian and Latin American Collections
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- Librarian, Medical Education and Clinical Engagement / Health and Biomedical Library Services
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- the Divided America Project Archivist
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- GIS and Data Services / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services, Rockefeller - Sciences - Orwig
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- Library Technical Assistant II
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- Graduate and Professional Student Records and Graduation Coordinator
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- Chairman of the Committee on Academic Standing
- Deputy Dean of the College for Academic Advising
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- Director of Resource Acquisitions
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- Senior Library Specialist, Special Collections, Reader Services
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- Health Sciences Librarian for Public Health / Health and Biomedical Library Services
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- Senior Library Expert, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services
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- Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
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- Medicine & Life Sciences / Resource Guide
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- Head, Library Systems / Library
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- Senior Library Expert, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services
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- Senior Library Expert, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services
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- Director of Cataloging and Discovery
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- Senior Library Specialist, Academic Engagement, Music Library
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- Chemistry / Resource Guide
- Engineering / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Library
- Library / John Nicholas Brown Center
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- Assistant Editor / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Art & Architecture / Resource Guide
- History of Art and Architecture / Resource Guide
- Modern Culture and Media / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Assistant Registrar for Operations Management
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- Biology / Resource Guide
- Resource Guide
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, OUL, Assessment
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- Digital Technology Specialist for Archaeology and the Ancient World / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Health Sciences Librarian for Clinical Support / Health and Biomedical Library Services
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- Public Health / Resource Guide
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- Medicine & Life Sciences / Resource Guide
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- Resource Guide
- Science, Technology & Society / Resource Guide
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- Director, Brown University Digital Publications / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Expert, OUL, Library Facilities
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- Assistant CIO, Infrastructure and Research Computing
After graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of science in Management Information Systems and Management Science, Linnea Wolfe worked for four years as a database administrator for government contracting companies supporting the naval Trident submarine program. She came to Brown in 1989 as a database administrator, supporting the Josiah library system. She has held various management positions in the Office of Information Technology in the database, administrative technical services, and infrastructure areas. Her current responsibilities as Assistant CIO include; database services, systems services, datacenter operations, network and telecommunications, and storage, backup and IT Disaster Recovery services. As operating director of the Center for Computing and Visualization, Linnea has responsibility for working closely with the faculty director of CCV to lead the growth of research technologies and support to help faculty researchers compete and succeed in their own fields.
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- Senior Associate Registrar for Operations Management
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- Librarian, History, Society, and Culture
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- Head, Annex and Stacks Maintenance
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- Head, Digital Services and Records Management
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- Senior Library Expert, Collections Care, Conservation
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- Library Systems Administrator / Library
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- Chief Information Security Officer
Mark Dieterich is the Chief Information Security Officer at Brown University. He started his career at Brown in 1997 with the Department of Computer Science, holding a variety of positions until he was finally promoted to Director of IT for the department. In his current role, Mark is responsible for information security architecture and best practices across the University, directing security compliance and risk assessment efforts, leading awareness programs, directing an incident response team, and overseeing the Information Security team. He has a vast technological background, with experience managing and securing many of the software technologies employed at Brown today. Mark's background includes everything from high level architecture design to low level code debugging, covering a variety of security aspects.
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, Special Collections, Digital Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services, Digitization Specialist
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- Director, Library Exploration and Research / Center for Library Exploration and Research
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- Assistant Director, Real Estate
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- Joukowsky Family University Librarian
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- Student Records and Degree Clearance
- Undergraduate Student Records and Graduation Coordinator
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Expert, Academic Engagement, East Asian Collection
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- Senior Library Technologist, Special Collections
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- Senior Library Specialist, Special Collections, Research Services
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- Senior Library Technologist, Digital Technologies - Digital Records, Projects and Application Support / Library
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- Senior Library Technologist, Special Collections, Digital Preservation
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- Head, Collection Strategies for Licensing and Assessment
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- Director, Library Planning and Assessment
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- Global Curatorial Project Archivist
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- Data Visualization / Resource Guide
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- Assistant CIO, Research Software Engineering and Data Scienc
As the Assistant CIO, Research Software Engineering and Data Science, Paul oversees support for data-intensive computing, machine learning, informatics, reporting, and analytics through the Data Science Practice team. Prior to Brown, Paul worked as a Mathematical Statistician at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He completed a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Notre Dame; his undergraduate work was at The Ohio State University. Paul is broadly interested in ensemble methods for machine learning, as well as high-performance computing.
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Head, Digital Scholarship Technology Services / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Senior Library Specialist, Academic Engagement, Music Library
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- Visiting Scholar Housing Coordinator
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- Senior Library Expert, Special Collections, Manuscripts
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- Senior Library Expert, Collections Care, Conservation
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- Digital Humanities Librarian / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Librarian, Biomedical and Life Sciences / Health and Biomedical Library Services
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- Library Technical Assistant II, Collections Care, Stacks Maintenance
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- Senior Assistant Registrar for Systems Management
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- Senior Library Specialist, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services
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- Manager, Rockefeller Circulation
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- Executive Assistant, Office of the University Librarian
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- Library Technical Assistant II - OUL - Mail Room
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- Librarian, Performing Arts
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- Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the John Hay Library
Strauss, Amanda
Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the John Hay Library
Special Collections Department
John Hay Library, Box A
863-9480
amanda_strauss@brown.edu
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- Senior Library Expert, Electronic Resources Collection Analyst
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Assistant Director, Auxiliary Housing
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- Coordinating Curator for Native American & Indigenous Collections
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- Designer, Print and Digital Communications
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- Senior Library Technologist, Library Digital Technologies, Digital Resources Projects / Library
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- Senior Library Technologist, Media Support Specialist - Library Facilities
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- Digital Humanities Specialist / Center for Digital Scholarship
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- Curator, East Asian Collection
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- Head, Library Discovery Systems and Design / Library
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- Curator of the Black Diaspora
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- Head of Libraries Conservation
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Senior Library Specialist, Access Services
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- Manager, Sciences Library Circulation