Librarian

Jim Church

International and Foreign Government Documents Librarian
UC Berkeley Library

Jim Church is the librarian for economics and international and foreign government information at UC Berkeley. His chief areas of interest are international and nongovernmental organizations, economic development, human rights, and global poverty. He is also the manager for the library depositories for the United Nations and the European Union.

Mohamed Hamed

Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies Librarian
UC Berkeley Library

Mohamed Hamed joined the University of California, Berkeley Library in 2017 as the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian. Mohamed joins the Library from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where, for the last seven years, he has been the Middle Eastern & African Studies Librarian. He has earned a BA, MA, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University. Previous professional affiliations include The American University in Cairo, Santa Monica College Library, and Arabic Language instruction at UNC Chapel Hill. Professionally Mohamed...

Michele McKenzie

African Studies Librarian
UC Berkeley Library

Michele McKenzie is the speciality librarian for African Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics. In addition to previous experience at the UC Berkeley Media Resource Center, she has also served as a librarian at City College of San Francisco, the Berkeley Public Library, and the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (LinkedIn Profile).

Claude Potts

Librarian, Lusophone and Francophone African literatures
UC Berkeley Library

Claude Potts is the Librarian for Romance Language Collections. In that capacity, he can guide scholars working on Lusophone and Francophone African literatures.

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