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About Peter Gavin Ferriby


Gavin Ferriby serves as University Librarian at Sacred Heart University.  As a librarian, he leads librarians who enact the teaching mission of the University through daily decisions about resources, projects, and services. He seeks to align the strategic directions of the University with the rapidly transforming field of librarianship.  As a teacher, he seeks to engage undergraduates with the questions, achievements, and tensions of American religions.  As a scholar, he seeks to understand how to transmit and shape the manuscript and print legacy of Christian history through digital scholarship and libraries.  He is committed to the historic values of librarianship: openness, generosity and trust, and to questioning many current assumptions about the values and means of digital culture.

Positions

2006 - Present University Librarian, Sacred Heart University
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2001 - 2006 Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian, Muhlenberg College ‐ Trexler Library
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1998 - 2001 Head of Technical Services, Columbia University ‐ Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
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1996 - 1998 Editor, Union List of Serials, Brown University ‐ Consortium of Rhode Island Academic & Research Libraries
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1992 - 1994 Cataloging Associate, Princeton University ‐ Firestone Library
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1987 - 1992 Cataloging Librarian, Drew University ‐ Drew University Library
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1986 - 1987 Serials Intern Librarian, Metropolitan Museum of Art ‐ Thomas J. Watson Library
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2019 - Present Gloria Naylor Archive Digitization: Accelerator Grant
Office of Research And Graduate Studies, Lehigh University
Role: Institutional Leader of InterLibrary Collaboration
Colleague(s): Prof. Suzanne Edwards, Prof. Mary Foltz (Lehigh University)
2005 - 2010 Robert C. Horn Papyri Collection Digitization Project
Reidler Foundation
Role: Principle researcher and digitizer (Files no longer supported by Muhlenberg College Library)
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2018 - Present Chair, CCALD: Council of Connecticut Academic Library Directors
2017 - Present Member, LLAMA (Library Leadership and Management Association) Technical Services and Systems Committee
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Honors and Awards

  • Beta Phi Mu, Nu Chapter at Columbia University, 1986
  • Phi Beta Kappa,
  • Eta Sigma Phi
  • Delta Phi Alpha

Courses

  • American Religion in the Writings of Marilynne Robinson (in preparation for Spring 2020)
  • Religion in America (taught 2016-2018)
  • American Religion and Sports (taught 2014-2015)
  • American Christianities (taught 2010-2014)
  • Evangelicalism in America (taught 2009-2013)

Education

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1992 - 2000 Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary
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1988 - 1990 S.T.M., Drew University
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1985 - 1987 M.S., Columbia University
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1977 - 1980 M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
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1974 - 1976 B.A. magna cum laude, Hope College
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1971 - 1974 Michigan State University
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Links

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Library Documents (21)

Library Research Guides (4)