Welcome back, Seahawks! We're continuing our Faces of Randall series with a feature on another of our newer hires:

Name: Nicole Yatsonsky

Title: Library Specialist in Special Collections

What that means: Nicole handles the archives collections as librarians do with books and patrons. She organizes and catalogs documents that are important to the SENC/Wilmington area so that researchers can find and use them. This includes things like letters, photos, articles, and more.

Favorite book: Her favorite all-time book is The Great Gatsby. More recently, she read American Predator, which is the true story of the attempt to catch serial killer Israel Keyes, who evaded law enforcement for over a decade.

Favorite place in the library: Port City Java, because the seats still feel like the old library furniture from when she was here for undergrad.

If you could instantly learn any one (real) skill, what would it be and why?:
Nicole would choose to learn Portuguese; she’s half Brazilian, and it would be nice to be able to talk to her family members in Brazil who don’t speak English. She hasn’t been to Brazil yet because she wants to learn the language before she goes; she actually speaks some Spanish, which has interfered with her Portuguese.

About Nicole:
Nicole just started working here at Randall a year ago (happy anniversary!), but she attended UNCW as a student from 2006-2009. Wilmington is her absolute favorite place, and she’s very excited to be back here and to have found this job. However, before Wilmington she lived in LA for six years, and while there was an extra in an episode of Glee. She’d been working part-time then and was a big Glee fan and looking for free entertainment, so when the opportunity arose she took it, appearing in the background of a regional competition as an audience member.

BONUS:
Documented evidence of Nicole existing in the same place as JEFF GOLDBLUM:
https://500px.com/randalllib/galleries/nicole