Roslyn Holdzkom

Lynn (Roslyn) Holdzkom received a BA in English from the University of Washington in 1974 and completed her MLS in 1989 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked in banking; for an ERIC clearinghouse in linguistics and the Linguistics Society of America; and for the West Virginia Women's Commission, where she served as fiscal officer and editor of Commission publications, and coordinated a West Virginia Humanities Foundation-sponsored project that made over 40 presentations on women's issues to groups all over the state. She was an instructor in English at the University of Constantine in Algeria, 1974-1976.

Lynn began working in the Technical Services Section of the Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in January 1987 and has been there since, except for a brief time spent as university archivist at the University of Washington in 1997. At UNC-Chapel Hill, she started as assistant technical services archivist, chiefly processing manuscript collections and supervising student workers. She was instrumental in implementing MARC cataloging and Encoded Archival Description markup of finding aids in the Department and in establishing the Department's web presence. She is now Head of the Special Collections Technical Services Department, where she manages archival processing, creates archival catalog records, and supervises the cataloging of rare and unique materials.

She co-presented “Archival Cataloging as a Component of Description,” a two-day workshop offered through the SAA, to archival and library groups across the country, 1999-2003, and served on the SAA committee that produced Describing Archives: A Content Standard (2004). She is an instructor for the SAA Describing Archives: A Content Standard workshop and the MARC According to DACS workshop and has taught archival description at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.