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Librarian Charlotte A. Tancin retires
16 September 2025
Charlotte A. Tancin (assistant librarian, 1984–1987; librarian, 1987–2025) has retired after 41 years at the Hunt Institute. Effective 30 September she will be an adjunct research scholar at the Institute. We wish her well and thank her for everything she has done for the Institute and the Library over those years. We will chronicle her many accomplishments in the upcoming fall issue of our Bulletin.
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.
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