Steering Committee Officers, 2015-2016

Chair - Beth Cron

 

Beth Cron is a Records Policy Analyst at the National Archives and Records Administration. She is a member of the Records  Management Policy Section within the Office of the Chief Records Officer. The Records Management Policy Section has produced guidance on social media records, cloud computing, and email archiving applications. Beth is a 2008 graduate of the School of Information at the University of Michigan and she specialized in Archives and Records Management. While in graduate school, she worked at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and served on the board for the SAA Student Chapter. She previously worked at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). She currently serves as the vice chair of the Records Management Roundtable.

 


 


Immediate Past Chair  - Brad Houston


 

 



 

Steering Committee Member - Courtney Bailey

 

Courtney has a master's degree with a concentration in archives and records management from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She has been an SAA member since 2011, and has been working as a records management analyst at the State Archives of North Carolina since 2014.  

 


 


Steering Committee Member  - Hillary Gatlin

 

Hillary Gatlin is the University Records Manager for Michigan State University. In her work for University Archives and Historical Collections, she oversees the university’s records management program, including retention of university records in both paper and electronic formats. She received her MLIS with a concentration in Archives and Records Management from the University of Pittsburgh. Hillary has previously worked as an archival intern at the Andy Warhol Museum and as the Records Management Specialist for George Mason University. Hillary is a board director for her local Mid-Michigan ARMA Chapter and is an active member of ARMA International. She was also a program committee member for the 2015 Michigan Archival Association Conference.

 


 


Steering Committee Member  - Nick Pavlik


 


 


Steering Committee Member-Christie Peterson

Christie Peterson has been Records Management Archivist for Johns Hopkins University’s Ferdinand Hamburger Archives since September 2012. In that role, she is responsible for records management, collection development and accessioning for the university archives, as well as the acquisition, processing, preservation and delivery of born-digital materials in the university archives and manuscripts. She previously worked as an archivist in the Princeton University Archives, as a project archivist with a congressional papers collection at Bates College, and as a graduate student assistant at the Bentley Historical Library. She received her MIS from the University of Michigan. Prior to graduate school, she honed her interviewing and records review skills as an investigator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.


Christie has served as a member of the RMRT Steering Committee for the last year, she was previously a member of SAA’s Annual Meeting Task Force, Appointments Committee (2014) and Program Committee (2012), and she is active in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC).

 


 


Steering Committee Member-  EiraTansey

 

Eira Tansey is the Digital Archivist/Records Manager for the University of Cincinnati. Tansey is responsible for the university's records management program, and for the planning and development of workflows related to born-digital archives and digital preservation of electronic records. She received her MLIS from San Jose State University, and is a Certified Archivist. She has previously worked at the Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University. Tansey was recently elected to SAA Nominating Committee, served on the SAA Communications Task Force from 2012-2013, and was the 2010-2011 Chair of the SJSU SLIS SAA student chapter.


 


 


Steering Committee Member  - Alex J. Toner

I have been active in the archival and recordkeeping profession for five years. During that time I earned my MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh; processed hundreds of distinct collections while supervising graduate students as a NHPRC Project Archivist at the Senator John Heinz History Center; and managed retention schedules, directed digitization projects, and established an electronic records program as the Archives and Records Manager in the Office of the University Registrar at Pitt. On campus, I am a member of the Staff Association Council, a mechanism for shared governance between the administration and staff throughout the University. Additionally, I serve as a board member of The Warren A. Sill Fund, an Ohio nonprofit organization that awards annual scholarships to students at Kent State University. Originally from North West Pennsylvania, I have lived in Pittsburgh for the past five years. Outside the office I’m an avid runner, an ardent reader, enjoy guitar, golfing, and going to baseball games, and try to camp and hike several times a year. Recent vacations have revolved around road tripping; I’d like to travel to every state in the U.S.!


 


 


Newsletter Editor/Steering Committee Member-

Lorette S. Weldon

 

Lorette S. Weldon, information professional,  professor and author of SharePoint without Coding: My Notes for Embedding the Librarian, Volume 1 and Volume 2, and  Librarians using SharePoint, obtained her MLS from University of Maryland. She has articles in Computers in Libraries, Information Outlook, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges’ Trusteeship. She has been a speaker at the Special Libraries Association 2009, Computers in Libraries 2009 and 2010 Conferences.


Lorette has been Webinar Instructor and Board Professionals Newsletter editor for Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, The Records Manager Newsletter editor and Webmaster for the Society of American Archivists Records Management Roundtable for four years.  For two years, she was the chapter archivist for SLA’s Maryland Chapter and webmaster for SLA’s DC Chapter.