Samuel Lemley

Senior Librarian

University Libraries

BIO

Sam Lemley is Curator of Special Collections and Director of the Posner Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Virginia and an MSLIS with a certificate of concentration in rare books and special collections librarianship from the Palmer School. Lemley has held fellowships at Princeton University Libraries, The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology (Smithsonian), The Houghton Library (Harvard University), Oak Spring Garden Library, and Rare Book School.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director
    Carnegie Mellon University, Posner Center for Special Collections, Pittsburgh, United States1 Feb 2026 - present
  • Curator of Special Collections
    Carnegie Mellon University, Libraries, Pittsburgh, United States1 Mar 2020 - present
  • Affiliate
    Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Early Modern Print, Networks, and Performance (CMU English), Pittsburgh, United States2022 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD, English Literature
    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States2020
  • MSLIS, Library & Information Science
    The Palmer School (LIU), New York, NY, United States2014
  • BA
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States1 Jan 2012

LANGUAGES

  • Italian
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • Latin
    Can read

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 4 Quality Education