CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Hagley Museum and Library Marketing Manager
(302) 658-2400, ext. 238 mmarcozzi@hagley.org
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wilmington, Delaware – June 2011 - Hagley Museum and Library Executive Director Geoff Halfpenny has announced the appointment of a new director for the Hagley Library. Taking over the leadership as Director, Library Services, on July 1, 2011, is Erik P. Rau, Ph.D. Dr. Rau comes to Hagley from Drexel University where he was an assistant teaching professor in the Department of History and Politics.
According to Mr. Halfpenny, “The Hagley Library is the nation’s leading business history library and archive. With collections that include 36,000 linear feet of archival material, 290,000 printed volumes, more than 2 million pictorial images, and a growing digital repository, the Hagley Library has international recognition. As a historian of technology, information, and organizations, Dr. Rau brings to Hagley a keen understanding of the issues now facing independent research libraries and the insight to guide the Hagley Library into the future.”
Dr. Rau serves on the board as vice chairperson of the Delaware Humanities Council and is project director of their Delaware Industrial History Initiative, a digital humanities program of the Delaware Humanities Forum. The initiative includes Hagley’s “Industrial Brandywine” project. He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in the Department of History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Stanford University.
Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. The Hagley Library is a member of the Independent Research Libraries Association. For more information, call (302) 658-2400 weekdays or visit www.hagley.org
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