Visit Smith.edu
Popular Searches:
Systems and Discovery Librarian
Contact & Office Hours
Neilson Library 309
Education
M.L.I.S., University of Oklahoma
Ph.D, Louisiana State University
M.A., Oklahoma State University
B.A., Oklahoma City University
Brandon is a member of the Collections, Discovery & Systems group, supporting the library’s digital infrastructure as well as its discovery layer. He works to ensure that search and discovery function seamlessly across library services to help patrons find the information they need quickly and intuitively.
Before coming to Smith, Brandon was a Digital Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University and an Associate Professor of English at Oklahoma City University. He maintains an active research agenda in Jewish Studies and interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies and is the co-creator of the Victorian Jewish Writers Project, a digital collection focusing on Anglo-Jewish writing during the long nineteenth century.
Discovery Team, Five Colleges Discovery Committee
Katzir, Brandon, and Lindsay Katzir. 2023. “Tracing Social Connections in the Victorian Jewish Writers Project.” Literature Compass: e12741. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12741.
“00LOCKed Out: Using Cloud Environments in Data Workshops,” Midwest Data Librarian Symposium, South Bend, Indiana, October 2022.
Katzir, Brandon. 2022. “The Role of Rhetoric in Style: Victorian Style Guides.” Rhetorica 40: 297-321. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2022.40.3.297.
“Digitizing Victorian Jewry,” North American Victorian Studies Association, Vancouver, March 2022.
Katzir, Brandon. 2021. “Walking the Even Tenor of Our Ways: Liberty and Tradition in Isaac Leeser’s 1841 Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights.” Jewish History 35: 135-151. DOI: 10.1007/S108350021-09418-Y.