Personnel and Staff

  • Brad Westwood
  • Department Chair
  • Area specialty: Modern manuscripts, managing cultural repositories (archives, libraries, museums & historical societies) and 19th and 20th-century architecture.
  • Office: 1113 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-8727
  • E-mail: brad_westwood@byu.edu
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  • Susan Corrigan
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Office: 1130 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-6374
  • E-mail: susan_corrigan@byu.edu
  • Maggie Gallup
  • Curator
  • Area specialty: Rare Books
  • Office: 1110 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-6276
  • E-mail: maggie_gallup@byu.edu
  • Norm Gillespie
  • Paraprofessional Manuscripts Processor
  • Office: 1106 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-2985
  • E-mail: norm_gillespie@byu.edu
  • Gary Gillum
  • Adjunct Curator
  • Area specialty: 20th and 21st Century Mormon Americana (printed materials)
  • Office: 5524 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-6118
  • E-mail: gary_gillum@byu.edu
  • David Layton
  • Collections & Workflow Manager
  • Area specialty: physical management of holdings, management of dept. workflow, and committee officer to the Conservation/Diagnostic Committee and INDI Committee (Integrated Digital Special Collections Web Based Workflow)
  • Office: 1191 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-1179
  • E-mail: david_layton@byu.edu
  • Visit David's Intranet Wiki: https://intranet.lib.byu.edu/intranet/index.php/David_Layton
  • Cory Nimer
  • Manuscript Cataloger and Metadata Specialist
  • Office: 1108 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-6091
  • E-mail: cori_nimer@byu.edu
  • Russ Taylor
  • Supervisor of Reference Services, Curator
  • Area specialty: Reference, Yellowstone Collection, and American Literature (printed)
  • Office: 1122 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-2932
  • E-mail: russ_taylor@byu.edu
  • Tom Wells
  • Curator
  • Area specialty: Photograph Archives, 19th- and 20th-century photographic and photomechanical materials
  • Office: 1161 HBLL
  • Phone: (801) 422-4170
  • E-mail: tom_wells@byu.edu