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Interview no. | R-0772 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.43. Special Research Projects: NewStories |
Project description | NewStories, begun in 2012, is an ongoing project of the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism. Interviews are conducted by students enrolled in media history coursework under the direction of Dr. Barbara Friedman. The series explores the life experiences of North Carolina media workers, whose career fields include print and broadcast news, photojournalism, web journalism, public relations, marketing, advertising and education. Included is a series of interviews with inductees of the North Carolina Halls of Fame. The interviews are biographical in nature, yet some concentrate on particular events or periods within the lifetime of the respondent. |
Date | 24 March 2015 |
Interviewee | Brown, Stephanie Willen. |
Interviewee occupation | Librarians |
Interviewee DOB | Undisclosed |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Oon, Eesim. |
Abstract | As the director of the Park Library in the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Stephanie Willen Brown fields questions big and small. In a previous job as admissions dean for a law school, Brown realized that her passion for information and people were well suited for advanced study in library science. She's a graduate of Boston's Simmons College School of Information and Library Science. As a news librarian for the Springfield (Mass.) Union-News, Brown connected journalists with information as they gathered the news, such as the temperature of a lit match, or documents that revealed a suspicious business venture. After she left the Union-News, Brown assisted faculty and students at the University of Connecticut pursuing cognitive science and psychology research. It was after meeting Barbara Semonche, the previous director of Park Library and another former news librarian, that she found her dream job: working as an academic librarian. When Semonche retired in 2009 after 19 years at the Journalism School, Brown jumped at the chance to work with students again. At the Park Library, her real-life experiences in the field of journalism have proven valuable when assisting students on their projects, while her experience as a college-level instructor gives her additional credibility among her fellow academics, who entrust their students to her. |
Citation | Interview with Stephanie Willen Brown by Eesin Oon, 23 October 2013 R-0772, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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