Langsdale Link
Contents:
Staff Spotlight
New Staff
Staff Profiles
Condolences
New Staff
Jeffrey
Hutson, Reference Librarian
Jeffrey most recently worked as the religious studies librarian at The
Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Previous library experience
found Jeffrey as a reference/instruction librarian at the College of St.
Benedict/St. John’s University in Minnesota and as a senior library
assistant at the Noble Science & Engineering Library at Arizona State
University. He holds a B.S. degree in Elementary Education and an M.A.
degree in Theology from St. John’s University as well as an M.S.L.I.S.
from Simmons College in Boston.
Shawn
M. Wheeler,
Administrative Assistant II
Shawn has over nine years of experience in the Administration field and most recently worked as the Administrative Assistant to the Director of the IT Department at Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems, Inc. Currently, Shawn is an undergrad at UMUC where her major is Business Administration.
Staff Profiles
Lydia
Mutahi,
Graduate Assistant, Special Collections
Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya
Hobbies: Traveling and discovering new places. I would
like to visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Favorite Book: Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Favorite Movie: The Passion of The Christ
Favorite TV Show: Comedy Central
What I Like Best About Baltimore: The Catoctin Wildlife
Preserve and Zoo with more than 350 exotic animals
What I Like Best about UB: Its diversification, with
students from all over the world. This is not only refreshing, but makes
me feel more at home.
Favorite Quote: Wally Amos' Watermelon Credo:
Whatever you believe creates your reality
Attitude is the magic word
Together everyone achieves more
Enthusiasm is the wellspring of life
Respect yourself, as well as others
Make commitments, not excuses
Every day can be a fun day
Love is the answer
One day at a time
Never give up or become a victim
Valerie
Ann Carey,
Serials and Binding
Hometown: Newark, NJ
My First Job: Caring for children at a youth center.
Hobbies: Reading; movies; watching gymnastics, figure
skating, and track and field on television; listening to U2, Patti Smith,
Bjork and exercising
Favorite Books: Beloved, A Lesson Before Dying, Bloodline,
Kindred, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights.
Favorite authors: Toni Morrision, Ernest J. Gaines, Octavia
Butler
Favorite Movies: The Piano, The Red Violin, The English
Patient, Chocolat, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Hours
Favorite TV Shows: Law & Order, Dead Zone, Twilight
Zone
Favorite Foods: lasagna, smothered chicken, cabbage,
pizza topped with sausage, pepperoni and pineapple
What I Like Best About Baltimore: Cultural events, museums, libraries,
Aquarium
What I Like Best about UB: My coworkers.
Favorite Quote: "we who believe in freedom cannot
rest" - Ella Baker
Condolences
The
library staff extends its sympathy to Ann Carvel House,
who served as the librarian of the Steamship Historical Society Collection
at Langsdale until her retirement in 2003, on the death of her father.
Elbert Nortrand Carvel, who served two terms as governor of Delaware (from
1949-1953 and again from 1961-1965), died Feb. 6. A 1931 alumnus
of the UB School of Law, Governor Carvel was a Alumnus of the Year and
served on the University's Board of Directors when it was a private school.
Gov. Elbert Nortrand Carvel
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