Transportation Library Welcomes a New Persons

Gwen Persons has joined the Transportation Library as a Library Assistant. She is primarily responsible for indexing in the TranWeb database, the Transportation Library's index of transportation and law enforcement periodicals. In addition, she uploads the same records to Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS), the national transportation index at the Transportation Research Board.

Gwen recently graduated from Kalamazoo College with a BA in Greek Classics. She also received the Ancient Greek Award, and graduated with honors for her senior thesis titled, "From Girl to Woman : The Role of the Parthenos in Ancient Attic Religious Ritual."

Gwen can be reached at 7-3967 or g-persons@northwestern.edu.

(Photo by Mary Bradley)