Mary Boone Bowling

Mimi Bowling has been a consulting archivist since 2004, working with clients in academic and cultural institutions, business and government. She began her archival career as an undergraduate at the Western Reserve Historical Society, and was subsequently on the staff of Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She was Archivist and Supervisory Museum Curator of the Edison National Historic Site (a unit of the National Park Service, now the Thomas Edison National Historical Park) and was, for thirteen years, Curator of Manuscripts at The New York Public Library. She is on the adjunct faculty of Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science.  She holds a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University and an M.L.S. from Columbia University.

Ms. Bowling has been an active member of the Society of American Archivists since 1974 and is a frequent speaker and workshop instructor on various archival topics.  Her involvement in the field of archival security arose out of extensive first-hand experience in the prosecution of the theft of manuscript and archival materials; in consequence, she and Richard Strassberg of Cornell University developed the SAA Security Workshop and have presented it around the United States for over a decade.