Clara has been an avid user of libraries since early childhood and the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College is the second academic library she has worked in. She moved to New York City to pursue degrees in languages and literature and has a particular interest in fiction from Latin America. While at the desk she is always happy to assist with research, recommend a book, chat linguistics, or do her best to answer any questions you may have. When not at a library or reading a book, you can find her in art galleries, exploring the boroughs, or at home cooking. 

Ziyin Feng is working as a software engineer at Gottesman Library.

He is interested in technology. He is keeping learning the latest technologies. He hope that using more technologies, he could support the team more and help them finish their job in a more efficient way~

After work, he loves cooking and working out~

Carlos Hernandez is a Brooklyn native, musician, and avid reader. When he's not working at the Teachers College Library, he's likely either in the studio or on tour.

Devin is a Services Associate at the Gottesman Libraries. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland College Park with a BA in English Language and Literature. Realizing a passion for music and the arts Devin began attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA in 2009. Shortly after Devin began a professional career playing the guitar in Boston as well as NYC. As his thirst for touring and performing began to dwindle, he started working at TC in the summer of 2016, eager to provide books and research assistance to the future teachers of the world. In his spare time he's still been know to teach children music as well as play some of his own tunes at various Brooklyn establishments.

As a User Experience Engineer, Sabarish is helping design and develop the various digital products of the Gottesman Libraries, including the Library website, Library mobile app, PocketKnowledge, EdLab website, Rhizr, and Vialogues, among others. He is helping unify the look and design of these products to give a consistent experience for our users.

Sabarish has a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Michigan, School of Information (Ann Arbor, MI) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University (Bangalore, India). He has nearly twelve years of technology experience in user experience design and software development t...

Rachel is the Assistant Research and Information Services Librarian at the Gottesman Libraries. You may have seen Rachel at the services desk. She began work with the Gottesman Libraries in the summer of 2015, and has since taken part in numerous curation projects and research guides. She has previously worked with countless members of the TC community as a Services Associate, assisting in finding materials, formulating reference queries, sharing resource recommendations, or just having a friendly chat as respite from a busy semester. Her philosophy is that there is joy in learning through collaboration, and she hopes to enact that wherever she goes.

Rachel is an MLIS candidate at Queens College with a focus on library media specialist certification. She hopes to one day work in a public school library, helping students discover the wonder of exploring information and supporting other teachers and administration in their classroom and curriculum needs. She believes ...

Emily is a musician, audio engineer and artist from Orlando, FL. She's spent most of the last decade in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Boston, Montreal, or on tour. In addition to music making, she loves mixing and mastering audio, baking, shooting film photography, video collaging, graphic designing and painting (when space allows). She's spent time working with books and technology in various retail environments, as well as cataloguing media as a DJ. She's always found comfort in the quiet and inspiring environments of libraries and all of the aforementioned interests and experiences have brought her here to the Gottesman Libraries. Emily is a mother of two cats and she hopes that number grows in the future.

Well, there’s the hazy childhood memory of sitting in the back seat of the car in the library parking lot, nestled between what seemed like stacks of books as tall as me on either side. I remember sunlight and the absence of the outer layers I’d have to wear for three quarters of the year (there’s an aphorism about my corner of Central New York, “There are only two seasons: winter and the fourth of July”), so it must have been summer, and those books were probably propelling me through that year’s summer reading contest. My people hail from warmer climes, and both of my parents teach, so that may have something to do with why that sunny, impromptu book fort stands out among my earliest memories.

There’s meeting, as a fresh college grad, with some of the folks who became my longest, closest friends (also in one case, an enemy) to send books to people in prison. For the rest of our time in that building, our space overlapped with a zine library that has since spawned ...

Lauren J. Young is a science and tech journalist by day and a Gottesman Library Services Associate by night. She likes to write about a lot of things, but mostly covers how technology affects our health, behavior, education and culture. She attended NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and received a Master's degree in journalism. For fun, she collects comic books and browses digital library archives. You can see her writing and reporting on her portfolio and follow her on Twitter.

Kalliopi Mathios has a BSEd in Elementary Education from Loyola University Chicago with middle school endorsements in history and English. She taught in the Chicagoland area for four years before completing her MLIS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2014. Before joining Teachers College, Kalli worked as a MyLibraryNYC school outreach and supervising librarian, and as a collection development librarian specializing in the curation of K-12 classroom and school libraries. Through previous work with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and in collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library's award-winning Teacher Lab, Kalli developed an online module introducing teachers to digital archives, with best practices for classroom use. She has presented at the DPLA national conference as well as the K-12 Archives Education Institute at the National Archives in New York. Currently, she is the Acquisitions and Mat...

I am a Service Associate here at Gottesman Libraries. Though I am originally from Albany, I live here in the city because I am currently studying to get my master's degree in economics at The New School. Though I got my undergraduate degree in history, I find that the trajectory of history revolves primarily around economic conditions and therefore it is useful to study economics in order to examine the raw mechanisms that shape the past, present, and future. After reading Robert Heilbroner's famous work, The Worldly Philosophers, I knew that The New School, with its heterodox approach to the study of economics, was the place for me.

Before working here I had worked at plenty of other places, including a wine and liquor store, a Dunkin' Donuts, and Party City. None of those jobs compare to the work I do here. Both my fellow staff members and the patrons that regularly visit the library couldn't be nicer and I genuinely enjoy the work that I do.

On a September night in Atlanta, I was robbed at gunpoint by a handful of Atlanta local teens, the youngest 15 and the oldest 18. They stole my friend’s car, my phone, and my apathy towards education. The experience did not leave me empty or scared but passionate to find a way to serve every student's beaming and sometimes flickering, potential. Since then I have been on a mission to create educational programs and artistic devices that teach students the importance of life skills and pathways to success rather than mere rote memorization.

My robbery experience propelled me to use my knowledge of maker labs and art to facilitate workshops for adolescents to develop programs that revolve around making, creative technologies, and the relationship between inquiry-based projects and career development.

Allen is Senior Librarian, Library Services. He provides in-class (and in-library) library information sessions for a variety of College courses; one-on-one research consultations; and email and in-person reference service. Allen compiles and maintains research guides specific to the College’s departments, programs, and courses; these are posted on the Learning at the Library blog on the Gottesman website. 

Allen received a BA and an MA in English literature from Cornell University, and an MS in library Services from Columbia University. He is interested in promoting and supporting research mastery among students and researchers (a few steps beyond “information literacy”), and he finds contributing to library users’ fluency in the use of rich resources very gratifying.  

Here is his story:

In graduate school, I gradually realized that the price of being able to immers...

Rashad is a ghost.

Legend of a man who stalks the Gottesman libraries.

A spirit unstuck floating from library to library, duty bound to be helpful.

Or maybe he is just some guy who really cares about access and information literacy.

This was his favorite commercial as a child.

Perhaps that has something to do with the monster he has become.

Annette is a recent Queens College Graduate student from the Dual MLIS/MA Program. Annette received her bachelors in Art History with a minor in history from Molloy College. With an interest in archiving, she has worked as intern at the National Archives for over two year working on various published projects.

Annette is currently a Young Adult Librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. In her short time with BPL she has shown a keen interest in assisting teens in underserved communities by creating multiple initiative projects to support this work such as providing College Prep Courses, school outreach, and much more. When she is not fighting for young adult inclusion in public libraries, you can find her traveling, baking, or watching soccer.

Tolkien on my lap and, I lie barefoot in the big fisherman’s hammock, watching the morning light trickle, loving the way the ripples in the pond play underneath the ash and weeping willow, listening to the wind in the trees. Instead of my book, I read the reflecting leaves that vary in color from the shade to the sun, ponder the years ahead, and think how lucky we are to be back in my mother’s home state so many miles from Chicago. If I cast my eyes far enough, I can just about see dragonflies shimmering above the pink and white lily pads, their fragile wings brightly, steadily beating at speeds that defy the glorious leisure of a Maine summer and sudden passing of my young father. 

It’s the beginning of August and school seems as far away as the midnight moon. My three brothers and I hook catfish for breakfast, race bullfrogs at the shore, swing like Tarzan into the leech-y watery deep, cannonball from the dock, skyrocket from construction sand, collect little bund...

I was born and raised in Thailand. I grew up in a family that strictly emphasized and passed on an important set of values: generosity, honesty, integrity and kindness 

and, more importantly, the value of education because we believe that having these values helps us to improve our lives and it is an investment in our future.

In order to get a better education, I moved from my hometown, Sikiu, in the northeast (Isan), to study in Bangkok, where most of the highest quality educational institutions are located.

After my high school years, I went to Srinakharinwirot University and earned a bachelor's degree in Teaching English. I started my first career as a teacher of English at Vajiravudh College in Bangkok. After three years of teaching students grades 9-12 at Vajiravudh, I realized that te...