Meet Us Monday - Jaro Szurek

 

Of all the resources the Samford University Library makes available to its users, among our most important and valuable are our people! Our #MeetUsMonday series offers a weekly glimpse behind the scenes by spotlighting the various people who work tirelessly every day to proactively support the University's mission by providing scholarly resources, research and information services, a welcoming environment, and collaborative alliances to promote learning and teaching.

Jaroslaw Szurek

Chair, Cataloging

Cataloging & Metadata Librarian

Music Librarian

Liaison Librarian for:
School of the Arts

MS Information Science, State University of New York at Albany

MA Musicology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Joined Samford in 2003

• What do you like best about working here in the library? The collegiality.
  
  
• What do you do on your commute to and from Samford? Listen to music.
  
  
• If you didn't work here in the library, what and/or where would you like to be doing? Traveling around the world, especially visiting some places that are off the beaten path. 
  
  
• What are some of your interests outside of work? Travelling, reading, playing the classical guitar.  
  
  
• What is your favorite book? The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
  
  
• Who is your favorite author? Dostoevsky, Hermann Hesse.
  
  
• Do you have any favorite podcasts? Ecolinguist on YouTube.
  
  
• Who is one of your heroes and why? Nikola Tesla - a still underrated genius.
  
  
• What app is your favorite discovery? PictureThis - a plant identifier.
  
  
• What’s the one thing people likely don’t know about you, but should? I often go by Jarek (not Jaro) when I talk to many people outside of the library, which is the more common version of my name in Polish.