2011 Annual Meeting Presentations

2011 STHC Program Presentations

National Institute of Standards & Technology, Information Technology Laboratory: Digital Preservation Initiatives. Slides as PDF
Kenneth Thibodeau (NARA, retired)

“A History of Cancer Care at the University of Virginia, 1901-2011” -- A UVa Health Sciences Library Historical Collections Production." Slides and notes as PDF
Joan Klein, University of Virginia Health Sciences Library

Joan is the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections at the University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. She is also an Assistant Professor for Medical Education in the University of Virginia School of Medicine in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities. Joan has been the director of Historical Collections at UVa’s Health Sciences Library since 1982, the year the position was first created. Before 1982 she worked in Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library. Joan received a B.A. in English from Gettysburg College and an M.S.L.S. from The Catholic University of America. She is active in many regional and national professional organizations. She was the recipient of Society of American Archivist’s 2003 Waldo Gifford Leland Award for excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice. She was a member of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee (1995-2000), which prompted the apology by President Clinton to survivors of the Study, 16 May 1997. She directed Historical Collections’ UVa History of Cancer Care Project, which culminated this year in the publication of a book and creation of a website.

“From Boxes to Bytes: Digitizing the Papers of Samuel A. Goudsmit.”  Slides and notes as PDF
Melanie Mueller, American Institute of Physics

Melanie earned her M.L.S. from the University of Maryland in 2005. While at the University of Maryland, she worked at the Library of American Broadcasting and the National Public Broadcasting Archives. She is the Associate Archivist at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, where she has worked since 2005.