The Furman University Libraries have the pleasure of introducing to you our newest faculty member Dr. Nashieli Marcano our Archivist/Digital Collections Librarian. Dr. Marcano comes to us from the Kennesaw State University Library System where she held the position of Graduate Librarian for Humanities and Social sciences. Her new role at Furman is Archivist and Digital Collections Librarian. She will be coordinating with the other three Duke Endowed Libraries, assisting faculty and staff in studying and researching our institutional history with race and racism, and working with graduate and undergraduate students in their research.
In her new position, Dr. Marcano will support faculty, staff, and students who use the archives for research in the area of institutional history. She will help them create scholarly work around their findings such as talks, websites, and symposia.
We asked Dr. Marcano some questions so that you all can get to know her better:
Do you drink coffee or tea?
More of a coffee person in the morning and tea more in the afternoon.
What are you most looking forward to in this new role?
I’m excited about this position because I will be entering the realm of digital collections, curation, and preservation, and I get to not just apply some of my experience in the past but I also get to learn a new set of skills. I will get to work with digital history projects and I will feel like that the work I do will make an impact.
Do you like traveling?
I love traveling while there is no pandemic! love traveling to places to learn the language spoken there. I did that with French.
Do you have any pets?
Yes, a cat named Stella.
What’s your favorite season?
Fall
What’s the best book you’ve read recently?
Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics by Sarah Mittlefehldt and also Accidentally Wes Anderson by Wally Koval
What’s your comfort food?
Guacamole
If you could eat breakfast with any famous person living or dead who would you choose?
I’d like to get some breakfast with Cornel West. I’ve met him once and he’s just delightful.
What else would you like people to know about you?
I like scuba diving, bowling, playing board games, card games, and crocheting (mostly rectangles like scarves, shawls, and hats).