Meet our newest Library Staff Member, Beatrice Lewin Dumin
I hope you will all join me in welcoming our newest staff member, Beatrice Lewin Dumin. Beatrice began as our Circulation, Reserves & Stacks Manager on February 5, 2007. Beatrice came to us with over 20 years of academic and corporate library experience which spans almost all departments of library support – business, academic public and technical services, both in the U.S. and overseas. Most recently, she managed the Royce Hall Reading Room, a consortium of seven departmental libraries and one Cent
er collection in the Humanities Division. In fact, Beatrice was the Reading Room’s first manager and was hired to establish and develop this beautiful library and its services. The room is located in the northwest corner of Royce Hall and has an access policy that restricts the room’s use to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty members in the consortium’s departments.
Beatrice was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Canada, Germany and eastern Washington State. She attended universities in both California and Washington and the Free University of Berlin. Beatrice received her B.A. from UCLA in 1984, with a double major in History and German (in which she is fluent).
Beatrice loves cats and enjoys all of the arts, particularly experimental dance, poetry and film, as well as classical forms of music. When Beatrice retires, she plans to move to Kenya and open an orphanage!
We feel pleased and lucky to have recruited Beatrice to this important position in the library. I encourage you to stop by the Circulation Desk, where you will often find her, to say hello.
Rhonda Lawrence, the Library’s Head of Cataloging, has worked in the UCLA Law Library since 1989. As the co-author of three editions of Cataloging Legal Literature: a manual on AACR2R and Library of Congress subject headings for legal materials, Rhonda is one of the foremost authorities in American legal cataloging. She is also very active and well-known in national library associations.