Paloma Celis Carbajal

Paloma Celis Carbajal, serves as the Curator for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies Collections. She is responsible for the development of the collections in these areas in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Prior to joining The New York Public Library, she served for over 12 years as the Bibliographer for Ibero-American Studies and Romance Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, she founded and developed the most comprehensive cartonera book collection and created the Cartonera Publishers Database. She has published, presented and organized conferences on this topic. Paloma holds an M.A. in Spanish Literature and M.A. in Library Studies, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.