John Drobnicki
John Drobnicki is currently Professor & Head of Reference
Services at href="http://www.york.cuny.edu/">York College of
The City University of New York.
He has an M.A. in History from St. John's
University (where he taught briefly), and an M.S. in Library Science from Queens College/CUNY. He
received the David Cohen Multicultural Award from the Queens College
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies in 1993, and
previously worked for the
Queens Borough Public Library.
John became interested in Holocaust-denial in 1990 after reading
an article by librarian John Swan, who was a passionate defender of
intellectual freedom, which mentioned the controversy surrounding
David McCalden
(aka
Lewis Brandon)
and his attempts to exhibit Holocaust-denial materials at a California
library during "Banned Books Week."
John is the co-author of "Holocaust-Denial Literature in Public
Libraries," which was published in Public & Access
Services Quarterly, Vol. I, No. 1 (1995) and based on his library
science
research project,
as well as several
bibliographies relating
to Holocaust-denial literature in the Bulletin of Bibliography. He
reviews books for American Reference Books
Annual,
Library Journal, and
Choice, and has also
contributed articles and reviews to
Polish Review, OAH Magazine of History,
the Polish-American Journal, College & Research Libraries
News, and various genealogical publications. Several of his articles
are available online via his web
page.
He is a member of the
American Library Association, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America,
Association for
the Study of Nationalities,
Polish American Historical Association, American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Polish
Genealogical Society of America. Aside from history and genealogy, John is also interested
in classical music, especially guitarist Pepe
Romero, and composer Joaquin Rodrigo.
He can be reached at
drobnicki@york.cuny.edu.
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