Preservation Section Elections 2017

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Slate for the 2017 Preservation Section Election

Vice-Chair/Chair Elect

We have 1 candidate for 1 position.

Eve Neiger

Member-At-Large

We have 3 candidates for 1 position.

Fletcher Durant

Summer Espinoza

Rhonda Rhinehart

Scroll down for the candidate's bios and statements

Vice-Chair/Chair Elect

Eve Neiger
Eve Neiger is an archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Her cataloging and processing work focuses on photographs and other visual material including the papers of 20th century artists. Eve holds a MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information in Preservation and Archives and a BA from Brandeis University. Eve has taught workshops on identification and handling of photographs at the New England Archivists 2015 Fall Symposium and several materials handling workshops at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She has served as a member of the Preservation Section Steering Committee since 2015 as a member of the Communications Committee and most recently as chair of the Program Committee for the 2017 conference program.
 
STATEMENT: As a visual materials archivist and preservation specialist my goal is to increase public exposure to the valuable information stored in archives and special collections by increasing awareness, enabling access, and preserving archival material for future users. Non-paper formats can often be the most intimidating materials for researchers, and even professional archivists, to handle and preserve. With strong outreach on preservation and handling of special materials, we can make something scary and intimidating into something familiar. Simple preservation is easy when armed with good information resources. Through service to the Preservation Section, I’d like to continue serving the archives and library community by building resources and learning opportunities for our members and by spreading the word about the importance of preservation in our everyday work.

Member-At-Large

Fletcher Durant
Fletcher is the Preservation Librarian at University of Florida Smathers Libraries and has served for one year as Member-At-Large for the Preservation Section. His work focuses on the preventive conservation of library and archival materials, the sustainability of cultural heritage, and risk management. He is a trained book and paper conservator and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation. Prior to joining the University of Florida, he was the Preservation Archivist for NYU Libraries and an Assistant Conservator for Special Collection at the New York Public LIbrary. He received his MSIS and CAS in the Conservation of Library and Archival Materials from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Wesleyan University.

Summer Espinoza
I am a newly hired digital archivist at California State University, Dominguez Hills where I am working on digital humanities projects and am beginning the planning phase of building and implementing digital preservation activities. Previous to my work here, I was the director of archives and special collections at a cultural heritage organization with an archive of over 1,200 oral histories of Japanese American World War II veterans and a small special collections program. There, I led a $300,000 CLIR grant project to create a digital library of four contributing organizations. I also created the first ever archives program at the organization and implemented standards and policies of the program as well as engaged in advocacy and outreach activities. During my two years at the organization I also coauthored a second successful NEH grant to digitize 800 of the oral histories.

Rhonda Rhinehart
Rhonda worked for several years on the OhioLINK EAD Task Force, from 2008 through 2015.  This Task Force was instrumental in developing and implementing a free tool in which Ohio cultural institutions can create and contribute finding aids as part of the OhioLINK consortia. It is still going strong today. She has worked at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology (CCHP) since June 2005, when she started her career as an archivist.  Since that time, Rhonda has been promoted to the manager of Special Collections, which includes both in-house preservation and collaboration with professional conservators on a wide variety of materials.