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Courtney Shaw, one of SIL’s newest employees, is Reference Librarian for the National Museum of Natural History Branch Library, with responsibility for the Mammals, Fishes, Birds, and Reptiles collections. She earned a B.A. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University, an M.A. in art history from Arizona State, and a Ph.D. in textiles and consumer economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.
She has worked as an art librarian, both in New York state and at the University of Maryland. After becoming interested in the natural sciences, she served as life sciences reference librarian at the University of Maryland, where she was responsible for disciplines “from agriculture to zoology, with medicine in between.”
Ms. Shaw has written numerous articles, and has presented several lectures for The Smithsonian Associates. Currently, she is working on a bibliography of books about cats. She enjoys watercolor and pen-and-ink drawing of people and animals, and is a volunteer at the National Zoological Park.
Tina Mason, graduate student in the University of Texas at Austin’s Preservation and Conservation for Archives and Libraries program, is an intern working under the supervision of Janice S. Ellis in the Book Conservation Laboratory, Preservation Services Department, for eight months. She is the third program intern to work at SIL in as many years. Ms. Mason is undertaking the full conservation treatment on Konrad Gesner’s 1560 imprint, Icones Animalium Quadrupedum, and has completed numerous stabilization treatments for rare books.
The best Web parcels are clean and clear and yet full of surprises. They are usually the products of fertile, forceful and multifarious minds. Like, for instance, the online version of another Smithsonian Institution exhibit, From Smithson to Smithsonian. Music, images, pertinent text, and a clean design -- this elegant exhibit hits a homer.
Linton Weeks,
The Navigator, Style,
The Washington Post,
May 14, 1998