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Lori Harris named interim dean and university librarian
Lori E. Harris has been named interim dean and university librarian of the University of Cincinnati Libraries effective July 1, 2022. Harris initially joined the Libraries in 2015 as an associate fellow from the National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). She permanently joined the University of Cincinnati Libraries in 2016. Harris previously served as assistant dean and director of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library and the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions. More recently, she co-led the development of the Libraries’ strategic framework NEXT Directions, which outlines the Libraries’ Guiding Principles and Pathways to operational excellence with special emphasis on initiatives relating…
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P. Alfred Marchand – Trailblazer and Librarian
Leah Everitt, graduate research assistant in the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, recently presented information obtained from archival materials regarding P. Alfred Marchand, one of the first Black librarians in the Midwest and possibly the United States, having worked at Cincinnati Hospital from 1869-1918. It is difficult to say definitively if Marchand was the first Black librarian since he started working before the establishment of the American Library Association in 1876 or professional library programs in 1887. Edward C. Williams is cited as the first professionally trained Black librarian in the U.S., having obtained his degree in librarianship from New York State Library School in 1898. Regardless, Marchand performed…