INTERVIEW WITH NORMAN FIERING

Abstract

Norman Fiering has announced his retirement as director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library after twenty-two years of service. He has been head of the library, an independently funded and administered research institution located at Brown University, since 1983. During his tenure, the library doubled the size of its building, increased its endowment sevenfold, and established an international research fellowship program that gives awards to as many as thirty scholars a year. More than 5,000 rare books in a dozen different languages have been added to the collection since 1983, all primary sources for the study of the . . .