Special Collections Research Center

NICOLETTE A. DOBROWOLSKI was promoted to director of the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at Syracuse University Libraries effective July 1. Dobrowolski had been serving as interim co-director of the Special Collections Research Center since November 2021. She has more than 22 years of experience in academic special collections and has served as assistant director of collections and access services at SCRC since 2016. Dobrowolski received her master’s degree in information studies from the University of Texas and has been active in the Rare Book and Manuscript section of the Association of College and Research Libraries within the American Library Association. She has participated in the university’s Women in Leadership program, the ARL Library Management Skills Institute, and the Special Collections Leadership program at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, among others. Most recently, Dobrowolski was instrumental in building SCRC’s staff and operations post-pandemic, advocating for the Libraries Module 2 Storage Facility, which was designed to provide optimum environmental conditions for the storage and preservation of unique, rare, and fragile items from SCRC, and worked closely with Libraries Advancement for the expansion of the in-house Joan Breier Brodsky Conservation Lab. Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center collects, preserves, and provides access to materials that document the history of Syracuse University and global society, including rare printed materials, original manuscripts, photographs, artworks, audio and moving-image recordings, university records, and more.
JACKSON ADAMS recently joined Syracuse University Press as promotion and publicity coordinator. Syracuse University Press, part of Syracuse University Libraries, was established in 1943 and has published groundbreaking works in academic publishing. Adams came from the University of Nebraska Press, where he worked as a publicist. Prior to that, he was the interactivity editor for the Lincoln Journal Star in Lincoln, Nebraska and also worked as a reporter at the Effingham Daily News. Adams received his bachelor’s degree at Bradley University in Illinois.