preservation education symposium: speaker bios Jeannette A. Bastian Jeannette A. Bastian is Assistant Professor and Director of the Archives Management Concentration in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Her research interests are focused on archives in colonial/post-colonial contexts, relationships between archives and collective memory and archives education. She has published in archives journals and is the recent author of "Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its History and Found Its Archives," published by Libraries Unlimited in 2003.
Michèle V. Cloonan Michèle V. Cloonan is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College. Prior to that she was Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. Over the past twenty years, she has written widely in the areas of preservation, book trade history, and bibliography. Her most recent publications have concerned the preservation of digital media. Before she began her teaching career, she worked as a book conservator at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and started the preservation program at Brown University. While a professor at UCLA she took a one-year leave of absence and was the Curator of Rare Books at Smith College. Dean Cloonan has held a variety of offices in the American Library Association, served on the board of the American Printing History Association, and has served several terms on the Advisory Committee of the Northeast Document Conservation Center. She has also served on the editorial boards of Libraries & Culture and Library Quarterly. Her honors and awards include the Robert Vosper/IFLA Fellows Programme award, the Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center of Creative Arts. She holds degrees from Bennington College (AB), the University of Chicago (AM), and the University of Illinois (MS, PhD). She has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University, the Universities of Illinois, Rhode Island, and Alabama, and Smith College.
Paul Conway Paul Conway joined the executive management group of the Duke University Libraries in August 2001. Paul provides leadership for all of the libraries' technology programs and services. His particular focus is the development of the Digital Library @ Duke as a comprehensive program of services and tools for the provision and preservation of digital resources for the Duke University community. Prior to coming to Duke, Paul headed the Preservation Department at Yale University Library for nine years. He began his career in 1977 as an archivist on the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library. From 1988 to 1992 served successively as the Preservation Program Officer for the Society of American Archivists and as an Archives Specialist at the National Archives and Records Administration. He has a Masters Degree in History and a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies, both from the University of Michigan.
Jean Ann Croft Jean Ann Croft received her MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh and studied preservation management under the watchful eye of Sally Buchanan in 1997. In 1997, she became the Interim Head of Preservation in the University Library System and was appointed the permanent department head in 2000. Serving as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Information Sciences and teaching the "Introduction to Library and Archival Preservation" course offered every fall term has provided her with every opportunity to assist in mentoring students that are exploring the possibility of pursuing a career in the preservation field. Furthermore, she submitted a review article on the literature of preservation published between 1999 and 2001 to Library Resources and Technical Services, which was published in the April 2003 issue.
Karen F. Gracy Karen F. Gracy holds an M.L.I.S. (1995) and a Ph.D. (2001) in Library and Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She also earned an M.A. in Film and Television Critical Studies from UCLA in 1995. Her dissertation, entitled: "The Imperative to Preserve: Competing Definitions of Value in the World of Film Preservation," was directed by Dr. Michèle V. Cloonan. She was hired as Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science in 2001. Dr. Gracy teaches in the areas of preservation management and archival administration, including courses in digital preservation, archival arrangement and description, digital preservation, and moving image and sound archiving. In addition to supporting the teaching mission of the Department, another of her charges is to revise and strengthen the preservation management specialization. In 2002, she introduced a new curriculum which provides students the opportunity to choose from four different tracks: preservation of paper-based media, archival preservation, preservation of electronic media, and preservation of moving images (view at http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlis/academics/specializations/preservation_management.html).
Elizabeth Yakel Elizabeth Yakel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information in the Archives and Records Management specialization. Her major research focus concerns access and accessibility to archival materials. This research combines methodologies from Archives, Library and Information Science, and Human |