Samuel Lemley
he/him/his
Curator of Special Collections
Contact
Office: 409
Hunt Library
4909 Frew Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
The Posner Center for Special Collections
4964 Margaret Morrison Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Sam Lemley administers research, acquisitions, exhibitions, and instruction in the Posner Center for Special Collections, CMU's home for rare books, manuscripts, and early scientific instruments and calculating machines. Lemley holds a PhD in English Literature and an MLIS with a certificate of concentration in rare book and special collections librarianship. Lemley has held research fellowships at the Houghton Library, Princeton University Library, the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
Lemley's scholarly work has appeared in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, The Library, Studies in Bibliography, Shakespeare Quarterly, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyperallergic, and other journals. He also edited a volume on Shakespeare's four Folios (Penn State University Press), published in conjunction with exhibitions mounted at CMU and the Frick Pittsburgh, and in 2025 authored Rare Books & Ancestral Machines: A Handbook to the Posner Center for Special Collections (Carnegie Mellon University Press).