marbl staff spotlight

MARBL is staffed by an eclectic group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly and witty lovers of special collections. Periodically, they'll introduce themselves to you here on the blog by telling you how they got into the world of manuscripts, archives and rare books, and what they love most within MARBL's collections.

by Elizabeth Chase, Coordinator for Research Services, MARBL

I grew up in a fairly small town in the middle of a very small state: the Atlanta metropolitan area has a population approximately four times the size of the state of New Hampshire. While my childhood was spent in a place that often felt idyllic and sometimes felt confining, my local library was always the former, never the latter. I checked out copious numbers of books, sometimes reading the same book multiple times a year. There was one volume I checked out often enough that when the library decided to remove it from the collection, they gave it to me.

MARBL is staffed by an eclectic group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly and witty lovers of special collections. Periodically, they'll introduce themselves to you here on the blog by telling you how they got into the world of manuscripts, archives and rare books, and what they love most within MARBL's collections.

by Christeene Fraser, Office Manager, MARBL

Some places find you.

As an impoverished undergraduate living in New York City in the fall of 2003, I often found myself spending hours on end in one of the few places that freely offered beauty, learning, and repose to anyone: the New York Public Library. Under the frescoed ceiling of the Rose Main Reading Room, I studied for an anticipated career in medicine and rewarded my efforts with frequent breaks to draft poems or sketch portraits of fellow patrons in my notebook.