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Joni Roberts, Associate University Librarian: About Joni

Joni Roberts

she / her / hers
Associate University Librarian for Collections, Teaching, and Research

Mark O. Hatfield Library
503-370-6741
jroberts@willamette.edu

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
— Anna Quindlen

Favorite Fiction:

The bone people by Keri Hulme
Call Number: PR9639.3.H75 B6
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: PS3515.U789 T639 2006
Angle of repose by Wallace Stegner
Call Number: PS3537.T316 A8
Sometimes a great notion by Ken Kesey
Call Number: PS3561.E667 S65 2006
A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki
Call Number: PS3565.Z45 T35 2013

Joni Roberts is a longtime Bearcat who graduated from Willamette University with an English major and an Art minor. She returned to Willamette as a librarian in 1989 and currently serves as the AUL for Collections, Teaching, and Research. Joni is the liaison/subject librarian for the following areas:

American Ethnic Studies
Anthropology
Global Cultural Studies
Public Health
Sociology
Women's and Gender Studies

Education:

Masters in Library Science (MLS), San Jose State University, CA
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Willamette University, OR

Professional/Academic Interests:

Collection Development
Information Literacy
Reading
Pacific Northwest Art
Willamette, Salem, and Oregon History

Non-Academic Interests:

In her free time, Joni enjoys reading, cross stitching, hiking, baking, traveling, and hanging out with family and friends. She is also fond of frogs, dark chocolate, tea, music, gardens, and the ocean.