Our series profiling the next generation of special collections librarians continues today with Jordan Goffin, Special Collections Librarian with Providence Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island.
Opinion/Martin: Remembering Vartan Gregorian
Jack Martin
Jack Martin is executive director of Providence Public Library.
When I first met Vartan Gregorian the former Brown University president, philanthropist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who passed away last week it was at the Carnegie Corporation holiday party of 2013. My husband had just started working there. I remember an incredible dinner and party and karaokeing to David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust while Vartan s wife Clare clapped alongside from a chair. They were both incredible, magnetic and full of energy and enthusiasm.
I got to know several of the team at Carnegie, where Gregorian was president, including many of VG’s (that’s one of the many monikers he was addressed by) staffers. When I got the job at Providence Public Library, one of them advised me to meet with him. She likened my new position and charge at Providence Public Library with his visionary rejuvenation of The New York Public Libr
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The American Library in Paris sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Its collection of 100,000 books is spread over three stories. Members from 60 countries can work at long tables or whisper at the coffee machine. As the programs manager, I oversaw the ALP’s weekly Evening with an Author series, hosting journalists, debut novelists, and National Book Award winners. At events, I stood in the back of the reading room, one eye on the crowd, the other on my journal as I jotted down the writers’ words. During the day, at my desk in the bustling back office, I also took note of what colleagues said and was particularly captivated by the World War II story of the courageous librarians who defied the Nazi “Library Protector” in order to hand-deliver books to Jewish readers.