University Librarian Sarah Thomas recently announced the appointment of Jean Poland as associate university librarian for engineering, mathematics and physical sciences. Poland will join the Cornell Library staff in January.
Poland has been associate librarian and head of the Swain Hall Library (astronomy, computer science, mathematics and physics) at Indiana University since 1994. She also served on the Indiana University Libraries Management Team as acting director of technical services during 1997. In 1996 Poland was a United States Information Agency/American Library Association fellow at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. Her previous positions also include assistant engineering librarian and assistant professor of library science at Purdue University, science reference librarian at the University of Lowell and engineering librarian at the University of Oklahoma.
Poland holds a master's degree in library science from the University of Illinois and is the author of a number of publications in engineering and science librarianship. In her role as associate university librarian at Cornell, she will oversee the engineering, mathematics and physical sciences libraries. Collectively, these unit libraries house more than 492,000 volumes, some 1,926,000 microforms and an extensive array of networked electronic databases and other online resources. The science libraries' collections support both undergraduate and graduate instruction and research.
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