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Former Head of Schomburg Center to Run Howard University Libraries

Howard Dodson, who retired last summer as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, said he has been appointed the director of Howard University Libraries and its Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. The center and the libraries at the historically black university in Washington hold 2.5 million volumes. The library system has had an interim director since 2010 and the research center has had an acting director since 2010.

Mr. Dodson, 72, said Friday that he officially took the job on Feb. 6, after months of working as a consultant for Howard and preparing an extensive report on its library system. His major goals are to substantially increase the university’s financial investment in the library, put card-catalog information online and better train librarians to evaluate and use information, he said.

“There’s a lot to be done but I’ve been having good working meetings with staffs and getting our heads around it,” Mr. Dodson said. “They made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.”

The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center has one of the world’s largest collections of documents related to the history and culture of people of African descent. But much of its materials have not been processed or cataloged, Mr. Dodson said. During Mr. Dodson’s tenure at the Schomburg, which began in 1984, his wide-ranging acquisitions and major exhibitions burnished its reputation as a premiere multifaceted center for black culture and research library. The Schomburg is part of the New York Public Library.
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