LIBRARIES - Key Persons


Abigail DiPaolo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
  • Executive Director of Administration & Technology

Archibald S. Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Library

Bret McCandless

Job Titles:
  • Music and Performing

Caroline Muglia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Campus Libraries Leadership Team
  • Associate Vice President for Campus Libraries, Co - Interim Associate University Librarian - New Brunswick

Caryn Radick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Digital Archivist / Librarian, Alexander Library Special Collections and University Archives

Consuella Askew

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian, Co - Interim Associate University Librarian - New Brunswick

Fernanda Perrone

Job Titles:
  • Archivist
  • Librarian
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Archivist & Head Exhibitions Program / Librarian, Alexander Library Special Collections and University Archives
  • Archivist and Head Exhibitions Program
Fernanda Perrone is an archivist and librarian with interests in American women's history, Japanese and Korean history, and exhibitions in archives and libraries. Her research has focused on the archives and history of American women religious, particularly in the field of higher education.

Francesca Giannetti

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Deputy Chair, New Brunswick Libraries / Special Collections and University Archives Faculty Digital Humanities
  • Digital Humanities Librarian / Librarian, Alexander Library

Hadiyah Sellers

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team

Irving Laurie

Irving Laurie were no strangers to philanthropy. They supported a variety of Jewish humanitarian needs both here and abroad. They built the Edith Laurie Experimental Theatre in memory of their daughter and endowed the new Laurie Chair in Theatre Arts at Brandeis University, where Irving has served as a Fellow for many years. They established the Laurie Neurodevelopmental Institute at Middlesex General-University Hospital (now the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital) in New Brunswick, where Irving was a member of the Board of Trustees. Their names are listed on the Founders' Wall of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Rutgers University is proud to have received significant support from the Lauries. The Blanche and Irving Laurie Performing Arts Library on the Douglass College campus is a gift from Irving in loving memory of his wife, the former Blanche Susskind, who was an opera and music lover and herself a concert pianist and vocalist. Support for the university from the Laurie family covers several generations, beginning with a gift of $1,000 for the Rutgers University Endowment Fund from Irving's father, Israel Laurie, a prominent philanthropist in the New Brunswick area. Numerous family members who later studied at the university continued this pattern of family support, and Irving's gift to the music library is a striking example of this fine tradition.

James (Jim) Niessen

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee
  • Chairman, New Brunswick Libraries / Special Collections and University Archives Faculty Collections
  • World History Librarian / Librarian, Alexander Library

John Cotton Dana

Job Titles:
  • Library

John Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Staff Advisory Committee Vice Chair and Instructional Technology Specialist

Julie Peters

Job Titles:
  • Library Director

Kayo Denda

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Lara De Meo Hoyt - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team

Laura Palumbo

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry & Physics Librarian / Science Data Specialist
  • Chemistry & Physics Librarian and Science Data Specialist

Leslin H. Charles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Instructional Design Librarian / Librarian, James Dickson Carr Library
Leslin H. Charles' research interests include student engagement, metacognition, information literacy, and assessment of student learning. At Rutgers University, Leslin leads the libraries' efforts to develop pedagogically sound learning experiences and appropriate assessment strategies in collaboration with librarians, teaching faculty, and relevant campus partners. She is a co-recipient of the 2023 New Jersey Library Association/ACRL-NJ Research Award and the 2023 American Association of School Librarians Research Award for the 2022 publication titled, First Years' information literacy backpacks: What's already packed or not packed? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102566 She is the recipient of the 2022 New Jersey Library Association/ACRL-NJ Research Award for the 2021 publication titled, Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship. College & Research Libraries, 82(3), 370. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.3.370. She also received the 2018 Faculty Award for Outstanding Generosity and Commitment to Students, from the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Rutgers University. Leslin is currently on the Fulbright Specialist roster, 2020 - 2025.

Lily Todorinova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Undergraduate Experience Librarian

Megan Lotts

Job Titles:
  • Art Librarian

Mei Ling Lo

Job Titles:
  • Science Research Librarian

Melissa De Fino

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Vice Chair and Special Collections & Formats Technical Services Librarian

Miriam Schapiro

Job Titles:
  • Archives on Women Artists
  • Archives on Women Artists Collection Development Policy

Paul Robeson

Job Titles:
  • Library

Regina Koury

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Campus Libraries Leadership Team
  • Associate University Librarian, Rutgers University - Camden

Rhonda Marker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Campus Libraries Leadership Team
  • Interim Associate University Librarian, Rutgers University - Newark

Rose Barbalace

Job Titles:
  • Staff Advisory Committee Chair and Access Services Library Supervisor II

Ryan Womack

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • ARL Libraries and Research
  • Data Librarian / Librarian, Alexander Library
  • Faculty Chair and Data Librarian
  • Research Data in Core Journals in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics", PLoS ONE, Volume 10, Issue 12, 2015.Http
  • Research Services
Ryan Womack, "ARL Libraries and Research: Correlates of Grant Funding", The Journal of Academic Librarianship, [In press, available online 24 June 2016].http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2016.06.006. Ryan Womack, "Research Data in Core Journals in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics", PLoS ONE, volume 10, issue 12, 2015.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143460.

Tao Yang

Job Titles:
  • East Asian Librarian

Tony Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Campus Libraries Leadership Team
  • Associate University Librarian, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

Triveni Kuchi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee

William Elliot Griffis

Job Titles:
  • Collection Development