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You have a track record of collaborations that help connect new constituencies to special collections.

Christina Nielsen would be named the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection and Director of Program Planning at the Museum.

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Petrina D. Jackson assumed her post as the Lia Gelin Poorvu Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library on November 1.

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This has been part of my work philosophy for as long as I have been an archivist. For example, as part of my effort to fill in the archival gaps of historically excluded populations and secure their legacies at Cornell, I worked with the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) to train its student workers to locate student and alumni materials.

We also hosted an archives program for Asian/Asian American student organization representatives who were shown Rare and Manuscript Collections materials related to Asian and Asian American students. The program offered ways for AASP to assist the organizations in managing their records before depositing them into the University Archives. 

In addition to being a special collections library, the Schlesinger is one of the few libraries at Harvard open to th