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Greg Bailey is the University Archivist and Clements Curator at Texas A&M University. He has served in these capacities since January 2014. As University Archivist he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the university archives and related collections and serves as the primary spokesperson for Texas A&M history on behalf of the Libraries. As Clements Curator he is responsible for the papers of two term Governor William P. Clements. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Mr. Bailey was the University Archivist and Records Manager at Stephen F. Austin State University for three years. He received his BA in History with minors in Geography and Political Science from Eastern Illinois University and holds an MLS from Indiana University with a Specialization in Archives and Records Management. Mr. Bailey currently is serving on the College and University Archives Section Steering Committee and has served as a mentor in the SAA Mentoring Program the last two years. He also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Brazos County Historical Commission, Vice-Chair of the Brazos County World War I Centennial Committee, and as Lead Contact in the Bryan/College Station area for the Texas World War I Centennial Committee.
Howdy! (As we say here in Aggieland) I am excited about the opportunity to serve as the Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the College and University Archives Section Steering Committee. Over the last year I have enjoyed my time on the C&U Section Steering Committee and it has made me want to continue to work in this community, and to learn about the challenges facing others at academic institutions around the United States and how we can help them. I have had to opportunity to work as a University Archivist for six and half years at two universities in my career. These positions have given me experiences that I would like to share with the college and university archives community. I also would love to have the opportunity to learn from this community as well. I have served as a mentor in the SAA Mentoring Program, worked the Career Center at the SAA Annual Meeting, am hoping to further my engagement and participation in SAA and my growth as an archivist through this opportunity.
Engseth is Curator, Immigration History Research Center Archives and Head of the Migration and Social Services Collections within Archives and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. There she works with four archives (the Immigration History Research Center Archives, the Kautz Family YMCA Archives, the Social Welfare History Archives, and the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives) and roles include donor relations and fundraising, collection development, staff and budget supervision, instruction, outreach, digital and publishing projects, and exhibit curation. Previously, she worked in other C&U archives and special collections including UW-Milwaukee, North Park University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is active in SAA, and previously served on this section's Steering Committee and as Nominations Committee Chair. Other activities and service include with Midwest Archives Conference and Twin Cities Archives Round Table, and she is occasional adjunct faculty with the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's School of Information Studies, her alma mater. Her most recent class is a comparative study abroad which always includes onsite interaction with C&U archivists. Some of her current interests include equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work, community archives/ists, digital humanities, the personal archiving or data management needs of our campus communities, and professional development.
As a career-long C&U archivist and section member, I am keenly aware of two things: how much I've learned from my colleagues and how I would like to return the support by serving as your Vice Chair/Chair Elect. I've worked in a variety of institutional settings, from small private to large public, and as a lone arranger to places with many, specialized colleagues. I celebrate the variety among us in our section, and it is due to our collective experiences that we can offer so much to each other.
If I am elected, I will continue the collaborative work of recent leadership, and support member connections and communication including our excellent new blog, Academic Archivist. I will concentrate on listening to the members and representing you accurately when working with SAA and other sections. In addition, I would like to connect our conversations where appropriate to SAA's current Goals and Strategies and draw upon the rich experiences of campus-based work in order to advance these goals. As one of the largest sections, we have a valuable role to play in SAA, with much to contribute.
Thank you for the opportunity to run for election to Vice Chair/Chair-Elect!
Liz Beckman has been the Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at George Mason University's Special Collections Research Center since December 2016. She started at George Mason as the Processing Coordinator in Special Collections in November 2014. Prior to this, she held internships at a variety of organizations, including the American Association of University Women, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the United Way of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh. Liz earned her BA in history from Kenyon College and her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.
Archivists in college and university settings play a number of roles and serve a wide array of researchers, but we are unique in introducing students to unpublished material at a formative time in their educational lives. I am particularly interested in and passionate about documenting student groups, and I hope to increase student, faculty, and community investment in archival work. I believe that we need to break down the visible and invisible barriers that may prevent our users from taking advantage of what is available to them. As a member of the College and University Archives Section Steering Committee, I hope to encourage discussion from a wide range of institutional perspectives so that we can learn from each other and implement strategies to make archives an indispensable part of higher education.
I have been an Archives Librarian at Elon University since 2015. I create and maintain intellectual access to our collections, as well as contribute to the outreach, marketing, promotion, and use of the materials held in our Archives and Special Collections Department. Prior to working in the archives, I was an instruction librarian at Elon and at Gardner-Webb University. I received a MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1997, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992.
I am an active member of the North Carolina Library Association and the Society of North Carolina Archivists. I am currently serving on the Nominating Committee for SNCA, and am the Past Chair of the College and University Section of NCLA. From 2013-2015 I was a member of NCLA’s Executive Board, as well as a member of the Planning Committee for NCLA’s 61st Biennial Conference. I participated in NCLA’s Leadership Institute in 2012. I have also served on the Communications Committee of the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (2005-2006), and was president of the LIS Alumni Association of UNC-Greensboro from 2010-2012.
As a new member of the archival profession, I am excited about the possibility of becoming further engaged in the archival community, as well as serving my fellow archivists through SAA. Although I have only been an archivist for a relatively short time, I have twenty years’ professional experience as an academic librarian, and have served in leadership roles in several library organizations. I have brought this experience and enthusiasm to my new position, and I believe I will make an effective member of the Steering Committee. In this capacity I would like to serve the College and University Archives community. Thank you for your consideration!
Christy Fic is the University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Shippensburg, she worked as a contract processing archivist for the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. Christy holds an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, an MA in Applied History from Shippensburg University, and a BA in Anthropology & Sociology from Lafayette College. Christy has previously served SAA as a Steering Committee member of the Students and New Archives Professionals (SNAP) Roundtable. She is active in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) as a member of the organization's Web Team and has just been elected to serve on the Scholarship Committee. Christy also holds positions in the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA), as Co-Chair of the Archives & History Committee, Secretary/Treasurer of the Preservation Roundtable, and a member of the leadership team for the South-Central Chapter.
One of the greatest services that the College and University Archives Section provides its members is support. I've experienced a strong support system of college and university archivists in my home state of Pennsylvania as a member of the Keystone Library Network. I have learned the importance of having colleagues to ask questions of, provide answers to, and collaborate with. In the College and University Archives Section, we harness the power of a much larger network. As a member of this Section, I have benefited greatly from the collective wisdom of the group. I would like to have the opportunity to give back to this Section by serving on the steering committee in order to support our members as they seek answers together and look for ways to collaborate in shared endeavors. While our individual job responsibilities may vary, we share common goals and interests as we strive to provide the constituents of our campus communities with the best resources and services. I am interested in fostering those commonalities and providing C&UA Section members with opportunities for growth and development. Thank you for your consideration.
I am the Technical Services Archivist for University Archives at Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where I have been since 2014. In this position I am responsible for the arrangement and description of University Archives materials, including physical and digital collections of all sizes; as a member of the Rubenstein Technical Services Management Team, I also work with staff across Technical Services and the library to plan and implement projects, develop workflows, standardize practice, create and revise documentation, and form and improve policies. Previously, I was the Processing and Digital Archivist at Seton Hall University from 2012-2014, where I initiated a comprehensive inventorying project, created and documented new workflows for processing collections and finding aids, and was closely involved with creation and revision of policies and procedures in the Archives. In 2011 I received my MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I also worked as the William R. Ferris Processing Librarian for the Southern Folklife Collection and a Graduate Assistant in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives. I have served SAA as a member of the Steering Committee for the Description Section and a member of the Theodore Calvin Pease Award subcommittee, as well as serving in regional organizations including MARAC (Program Committee Fall 2013) and SNCA (Program Committee 2017).
The College and University Archives Section is the meeting place for a large percentage of the membership of SAA, and provides an important opportunity for collaboration on getting work done. Having worked in both large and small institutions, I have found this section to be a valuable resource for practical and professional information and support, so I would be delighted to serve on the Steering Committee, contributing my own experience to help the group as a whole. I am very interested in contributing to initiatives that will assist us in doing our work and in consistently fulfilling our professional values. I am excited by the chance to grow further as a professional while working for the community, and see this as a great way to be a part of an engaged SAA.
As University Archivist at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Noah works to acquire, arrange, and describe official University records and other materials of value for documenting the history and functions of the institution. His research interests include digital humanities, digital curation, and archival instruction.
Noah holds an M.S. in Information Science and a B.A. in History from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Prior to joining the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga library faculty in July of 2016, he worked for several units of the library at his alma mater including the Modern Political Archives, the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project, and the Digital Production Area.
It would be an honor to serve as a steering committee member for the College and University Archives Section of SAA. I have been a member of this organization for nearly five years, joining as an undergraduate history student aspiring to become an archivist. Having begun my professional career in earnest as University Archivist at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I believe the time has come for me to give back to SAA, and I would love to do so by serving on the College and University Archives Section Steering Committee. In particular, the prospect of contributing regular content to the Academic Archivist blog excites me, and I believe that the many of the ongoing projects at my institution—which include the creation of a hierarchical organizational structure and large scale inventorying, processing, digitization and descriptive work—will serve as outstanding conversation topics and will foster section-wide discussion and the exchanging of ideas. Thank you for your consideration.
I have an MLIS from San José State University, and a BA in History from Smith College. I am the Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at California State University, Long Beach, where I oversee the management of all of the University's Special Collections and University Archives. I was involved with the RFP process for the CSU system's adoption of a Unified Library Management System, and I current serve on the CSU System's Systemwide Technology Initiatives Management (STIM) Committee.
I am very interested in serving on the C&U Section’s steering committee. College and University Archives face many challenges, as we address the information needs of our diverse students, faculty, and staff. We come from institutions with various levels of staffing, equipment, and funding, and we have collections that can span centuries or decades. Many of our commonalities include what our patrons increasingly expect of us, which includes increased digital access to materials. I would like to get more involved in the C&U Section as we address these newer challenges, while we continue to manage our legacy collections and maintain our institutions' pasts.
Professor Karen Jamison Trivette is the current Head of Special Collections and College Archives (SPARC) in the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a part of the State University of New York (SUNY); she has held this position since 2008 and is its first incumbent. She holds a Master of Library Science degree with a concentration in Archives and Records Management from the University at Albany (New York) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from UNC-Chapel Hill (North Carolina). She has worked primarily in art libraries and art archives (including the Albany Institute of History and Art; the Clark Art Institute Library; and the Museum of Modern Art Archives) except for an over three-year post at the New York State Archives where she primarily advised practitioners on archives and records management matters. She edited the publication Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style (2015), which was sourced completely from SPARC holdings, and has presented at many conferences, both national and international in scope. She recently wrote the forthcoming article for Art Libraries Journal entitled, "Historical Holdings and New Dimensions: The Special Collections and College Archives at the Fashion Institute of Technology-State University of New York" and co-authored a chapter on the life of pioneering fashion forecaster Tobé Coller Davis. In 2013, she was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship and in 2016, she was elected Vice President/President-Elect of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc; her term as President begins June 2017. She currently serves SAA on the editorial board of its journal, American Archivist.
I am delighted to run for a position on the Steering Committee of SAA's College and University Archives (C&UA) section. Beta Phi Mu (BPM), the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society, has the following motto: Aliis inserviendo consumor, meaning, “Consumed in the service of others.” As a member of BPM, I hold this not only as my chosen motto but also as my chosen practice. Over the last fifteen (15) years in the field, I have served many different constituencies in many different settings; none has given me greater pleasure than serving my own colleagues in the archives field. If elected, I will serve the committee and its section with enthusiasm, curiosity, and diligence while thinking critically and creatively to get the good work of the C&UA section done. I would be honored to serve my C&UA section colleagues as a Steering Committee member and very much appreciate your vote!
Bryan Whitledge is the Archivist for University Digital Records at Central Michigan University, where he has worked since 2011. During his time at the Clarke Historical Library, he has worked with reference, digitizing and reformatting, and digital preservation. He holds a Bachelor's degree in political science and a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois (2011), where he worked in the University Archives in a variety of capacities from 2006 to 2011. For the past three years, he has served on the leadership of the SAA Security Section and in 2016 he worked with the leadership team to establish the Archives Security blog, offering information and resources about crimes against archives and cultural heritage objects.
I welcome the opportunity to serve as a member of the Steering Committee of the College and University Archives Section. I have been fortunate to spend the entirety of my career in higher education archives and I have benefited greatly from the skills and knowledge passed onto me by mentors and colleagues in the field. Like any good archivist or information science professional, I intend to keep sharing what I have learned with others and I believe that the Steering Committee offers someone like me an excellent opportunity to serve. At its heart, archives is about connecting researchers with resources, and I believe that the College and University Archive Section and the Academic Archivist blog are excellent venues for connecting college and university archivists to information of relevance to them. I look forward to this chance to work with a great team of engaged archivists to continue pushing the discipline further in the right direction and contributing to this wonderful community of knowledge within the Section and within SAA.
Eric Willey is currently employed at Illinois State University as a Special Collections and Formats Cataloger. In this role he spends half his time in archival processing for Special Collections, and the other half cataloging monographs, serials, DVDs, and other materials. He has previously held a position at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, worked at the Wisconsin Historical Society as a Project Assistant with the McCormick-International Harvester Collection, and provided reference service for local and county government records as part of the Illinois IRAD program. His hair has never looked as good as it did in this picture again, and likely never will.
I began my archival service in graduate school at UW-Madison, as a member of the SAA Student Chapter. Since then I have gradually increased my responsibilities through service to SAA (on the Theodore Calvin Pease and Waldo Gifford Leland Award Subcommittees) and Midwest Archives Conference (as a member of the MAC 2016 Program Committee and editor of the MAC Newsletter). I have found this extremely rewarding, and now I would like to further increase my responsibilities by working within a section, but there are a lot of very worthwhile and active sections to choose from in SAA. What excites me about the College & University Archives Section is the same thing I have grown to enjoy about working in a university setting: a wide variety of constituents bringing many different viewpoints and a variety of concerns to the table. As a steering committee member it would be my goal to work with other members of the committee and section to make this group a valuable resource for all archivists, whether that be through sharing information, networking opportunities, or promoting the accomplishments of members. Thank you for your consideration.
