María R. Estorino
@mariaestorino.bsky.social
University Librarian at UNC Chapel Hill. Mom, wife, diasporic Cuban. Cooperative overlapper. Spanglish is my native language.
Please help me welcome three new librarians to the UNC University Libraries community!
Emily Vorhies, E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian
Brionna Johnson, E-Resources Metadata Librarian
Emma Barret-Catton, Health Sciences Librarian
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Emily Vorhies, E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian
Brionna Johnson, E-Resources Metadata Librarian
Emma Barret-Catton, Health Sciences Librarian
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June 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Please help me welcome three new librarians to the UNC University Libraries community!
Emily Vorhies, E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian
Brionna Johnson, E-Resources Metadata Librarian
Emma Barret-Catton, Health Sciences Librarian
library.unc.edu/news/two-e-r...
library.unc.edu/news/appoint...
Emily Vorhies, E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian
Brionna Johnson, E-Resources Metadata Librarian
Emma Barret-Catton, Health Sciences Librarian
library.unc.edu/news/two-e-r...
library.unc.edu/news/appoint...
"Impactful research requires access to information, whether that’s the latest studies, important datasets or historical materials. As the University’s information experts, the Libraries connects Carolina researchers to the resources they need." Learn more: library.unc.edu/news/researc...
May 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Impactful research requires access to information, whether that’s the latest studies, important datasets or historical materials. As the University’s information experts, the Libraries connects Carolina researchers to the resources they need." Learn more: library.unc.edu/news/researc...
Look at these beauties! Congratulations to the student artists who won our first bookmark design contest based on the 2025 National Library Week's theme “Drawn to the Libraries." library.unc.edu/news/announc...
Announcing the winners of the University Libraries’ 2025 bookmark design contest
The winning designs will be printed as bookmarks and available at most campus libraries through 2025.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Look at these beauties! Congratulations to the student artists who won our first bookmark design contest based on the 2025 National Library Week's theme “Drawn to the Libraries." library.unc.edu/news/announc...
Today kicks off National Library Week 2025. At Carolina, you can celebrate the University Libraries this week by joining us for any one of these activities: library.unc.edu/news/celebra.... This year, it matters more than ever.
Celebrate National Library Week
National Library Week is April 6-12, and Carolina’s libraries are marking the occasion with resources, giveaways and other activities.
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April 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today kicks off National Library Week 2025. At Carolina, you can celebrate the University Libraries this week by joining us for any one of these activities: library.unc.edu/news/celebra.... This year, it matters more than ever.
Please join us in celebrating the achievements and impact of the UNC University Libraries Student Employee Appreciation Award winners! Their dedication, hard work, and contributions to our community inspire us all. Congratulations!
Meet the winners of the 2025 University Libraries Student Employee Appreciation Awards
The Libraries recognized Owen Osborne, Amina Williams, Eileen Weng and Ian He for their excellent work.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Please join us in celebrating the achievements and impact of the UNC University Libraries Student Employee Appreciation Award winners! Their dedication, hard work, and contributions to our community inspire us all. Congratulations!
The UNC University Libraries has the best Friends! Won't you join them tomorrow during #GiveUNC day?
Meet the Library supporters who want to match your GiveUNC gift
Five generous donors will make your gift go further thanks to their challenge matches on March 25.
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March 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The UNC University Libraries has the best Friends! Won't you join them tomorrow during #GiveUNC day?
I *know* you want this Reading Ramses sticker. 💙🐏 Make a gift as part of GiveUNC to the University Libraries, and we’ll send you this limited-edition beauty! #GiveUNC Day is next Tuesday 3/25, but you can make your gift today 👉 give.unc.edu/25/00151
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I *know* you want this Reading Ramses sticker. 💙🐏 Make a gift as part of GiveUNC to the University Libraries, and we’ll send you this limited-edition beauty! #GiveUNC Day is next Tuesday 3/25, but you can make your gift today 👉 give.unc.edu/25/00151
Warren County, North Carolina is considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. Learn why from this online exhibition organized by UNC University Libraries and community partners.
Introduction · We Birthed the Movement: The Warren County PCB Landfill Protests, 1978-1982 · UNC Libraries
Photograph by Harold MooreDurham Herald Co. Newspaper Photographic Collection
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March 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Warren County, North Carolina is considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. Learn why from this online exhibition organized by UNC University Libraries and community partners.
Caroline Galt is the new Research Services Librarian at Wilson Special Collections Library. This is a new role to improve and enhance the researcher experience at Wilson Library, whether in person or virtual. Congratulations, Caroline!
Appointment: Research Services Librarian
Caroline Galt starts as research services librarian with Special Collections Research and Instructional Services on Feb. 24, 2025.
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March 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Caroline Galt is the new Research Services Librarian at Wilson Special Collections Library. This is a new role to improve and enhance the researcher experience at Wilson Library, whether in person or virtual. Congratulations, Caroline!
TUE 3/4: the Hanes Lecture in Bibliography highlights topics related to the history of books. This semester's lecture features Bryant Simon on community-produced publications in the American South with a focus on responses to the 1991 industrial fire at a poultry plant in Hamlet, NC.
Hanes Lecture: Print and the Movement
The Hanes Lecture in Bibliography series brings distinguished scholars and practitioners to campus to speak on topics related to the history of books. This semester's lecture will be given by Dr.…
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February 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
TUE 3/4: the Hanes Lecture in Bibliography highlights topics related to the history of books. This semester's lecture features Bryant Simon on community-produced publications in the American South with a focus on responses to the 1991 industrial fire at a poultry plant in Hamlet, NC.
We're #Hiring at the UNC University Libraries for the updated position of Music and Performing Arts Librarian. I'd love to welcome you to our team of extraordinary subject and information experts. Learn more about this position at https://buff.ly/3XbJ511
February 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We're #Hiring at the UNC University Libraries for the updated position of Music and Performing Arts Librarian. I'd love to welcome you to our team of extraordinary subject and information experts. Learn more about this position at https://buff.ly/3XbJ511
Having trouble accessing government information and data? We've got you covered. guides.lib.unc.edu/federal-info...
LibGuides: Finding Alternative Sources for Federal Information & Data: Home
LibGuides: Finding Alternative Sources for Federal Information & Data: Home
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February 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Having trouble accessing government information and data? We've got you covered. guides.lib.unc.edu/federal-info...
UNC-Chapel Hill scholars: The Libraries offers you the Carolina Digital Repository as a home for your digital scholarly publications: https://buff.ly/4aPfuQj. Our goal is to keep UNC scholarship safe, accessible & discoverable for as long as needed. Contact us at https://buff.ly/4huOqIL for help.
Carolina Digital Repository
Expand the reach and impact of your research. Bring Carolina's scholarship to the world!
cdr.lib.unc.edu
February 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
UNC-Chapel Hill scholars: The Libraries offers you the Carolina Digital Repository as a home for your digital scholarly publications: https://buff.ly/4aPfuQj. Our goal is to keep UNC scholarship safe, accessible & discoverable for as long as needed. Contact us at https://buff.ly/4huOqIL for help.
Seems time to share the Guantanamo Public Memory Project: buff.ly/40DjrTv
Guantánamo Public Memory Project
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January 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Seems time to share the Guantanamo Public Memory Project: buff.ly/40DjrTv
We're hiring for two e-resources positions in acquisitions and metadata. Applications accepted through 2/4:
E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian: https://buff.ly/3WCl6Yu
E-Resources Metadata Librarian: https://buff.ly/4gbebfO
E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian: https://buff.ly/3WCl6Yu
E-Resources Metadata Librarian: https://buff.ly/4gbebfO
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We're hiring for two e-resources positions in acquisitions and metadata. Applications accepted through 2/4:
E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian: https://buff.ly/3WCl6Yu
E-Resources Metadata Librarian: https://buff.ly/4gbebfO
E-Resources Acquisitions Librarian: https://buff.ly/3WCl6Yu
E-Resources Metadata Librarian: https://buff.ly/4gbebfO
Congratulations to @jillsexton.bsky.social! UNC Charlotte made an excellent choice for its next Dean of the Atkins Library. inside.charlotte.edu/2025/01/23/j...
Jill Sexton named dean of Atkins Library - Inside UNC Charlotte
Jill Sexton has been named dean of the J. Murrey Atkins Library, effective March 15. Sexton joins UNC Charlotte from North Carolina State University Libraries, where she is the associate director for ...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Congratulations to @jillsexton.bsky.social! UNC Charlotte made an excellent choice for its next Dean of the Atkins Library. inside.charlotte.edu/2025/01/23/j...
In my role, there are few things more invigorating than witnessing the impact of library collections, services, and expert staff on the creation of new knowledge. Come along and learn with me at this semester's Wilson Library Research Forum series:
2025 Wilson Research Forum
Learn why scholars come to Carolina to work with materials from the Libraries’ special collections.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In my role, there are few things more invigorating than witnessing the impact of library collections, services, and expert staff on the creation of new knowledge. Come along and learn with me at this semester's Wilson Library Research Forum series:
We're offering six #genAI workshops this spring semester at UNC University Libraries. Find the one that's right for you and join us. They're all conveniently online.
Generative AI: A SkillfUL series
Hone your generative AI skills through workshops offered by the Undergraduate Library.
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January 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We're offering six #genAI workshops this spring semester at UNC University Libraries. Find the one that's right for you and join us. They're all conveniently online.
We're #hiring an accounting technician at the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. Know anyone who might be interested? buff.ly/4h8Thic
Accounting Technician
This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement that may include a partially remote work location, consistent with System Office policy. UNC Chapel Hill employees are generally required to...
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January 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We're #hiring an accounting technician at the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. Know anyone who might be interested? buff.ly/4h8Thic
Please help me congratulate the recipients of the University Libraries' 2024 Annual Employee Awards! The University Librarian’s Meritorious Service Award and Annual Excellence Awards recognize employees whose work has made a notable impact to advance the Libraries’ mission. https://buff.ly/40e2fnq
January 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Please help me congratulate the recipients of the University Libraries' 2024 Annual Employee Awards! The University Librarian’s Meritorious Service Award and Annual Excellence Awards recognize employees whose work has made a notable impact to advance the Libraries’ mission. https://buff.ly/40e2fnq
Bill Belichick is not the first Belichick to coach football for the Tar Heels. His father Steve was an assistant coach from 1953 to 1955. University Archivist Nick Graham went looking for him in the archives at Wilson Library. Here's what he found: blogs.lib.unc.edu/uarms/2024/1...
Assistant Coach Steve Belichick at Carolina – For the Record
News and Perspectives from University Archives and Records Management Services
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December 16, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Bill Belichick is not the first Belichick to coach football for the Tar Heels. His father Steve was an assistant coach from 1953 to 1955. University Archivist Nick Graham went looking for him in the archives at Wilson Library. Here's what he found: blogs.lib.unc.edu/uarms/2024/1...
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This is such an old topic, but still: when rsch leads me to pubs on academia[dot]edu, I always look for an alternative route to access. It's a commercial site that sells your data and creates Analytics Panic.
www.chronicle.com/article/metr...
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Metrics Mania
The academy has always been a hothouse of invidious comparison. This website makes it worse.
www.chronicle.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:46 PM
This is such an old topic, but still: when rsch leads me to pubs on academia[dot]edu, I always look for an alternative route to access. It's a commercial site that sells your data and creates Analytics Panic.
www.chronicle.com/article/metr...
kfitz.info/academia-not...
archive.org/details/Boyc...
www.chronicle.com/article/metr...
kfitz.info/academia-not...
archive.org/details/Boyc...
Reposted by María R. Estorino
My recent essay for The New Yorker, on Latino voters.
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Understanding Latino Support for Donald Trump
Democrats have often described Latinos as decisive when they support liberal candidates and inconsequential when they don’t.
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November 21, 2024 at 12:50 AM
My recent essay for The New Yorker, on Latino voters.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Kudos to @unclibrary's Phil McDaniel & Gracie Riehm for the map they helped create for this project. Using data collected by UNC's Center for Virtual Care, Value, and Equity, "It showed areas in western NC that had washed away bridges and impassable roads." www.wunc.org/environment/...
UNC researchers to launch data-driven site to aid those impacted by Helene and other storms
UNC’s ViVE center — that houses all the data — was partly funded through the National Institutes of Health for over $3 million over the course of five years.
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November 20, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Kudos to @unclibrary's Phil McDaniel & Gracie Riehm for the map they helped create for this project. Using data collected by UNC's Center for Virtual Care, Value, and Equity, "It showed areas in western NC that had washed away bridges and impassable roads." www.wunc.org/environment/...