[SOA] Ohio University Libraries Receives Grant to Reveal Hidden Collections, Hire Project Archivist

[Janet Carleton]

Archives Receives Grant to Reveal Hidden Collections, Hire Project Archivist
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/newsblog/?p=889

Ohio University Libraries has received a grant from the National 
Historical Publications and Records Commission 
(http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/), part of the National Archives and 
Records Administration, to process and raise awareness of important 
primary source materials residing in the Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn 
Center for Archives and Special Collections 
(http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/).

The grant provides the Libraries with $116,514 over the next two years, 
primarily for personnel and student employee expenses. As a result of 
the grant, Holly Deakyne has been hired as the new Project Archivist for 
the Mahn Center. Deakyne will oversee the project to process and make 
thousands of linear feet of valuable manuscript and University Archives 
collections discoverable through ALICE, OhioLINK, and WorldCat. Kelly 
Broughton, Assistant Dean of Research and Education, said that this 
project will allow public access to a wealth of material that has been 
hidden to the general public.

Broughton said that Deakyne's past experience with a variety of 
institutional archives and her technical skills made her the perfect 
candidate to help make this project a success. Prior to her job at OU, 
Deakyne was a project archivist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 
New York City. She graduated from Florida State University in 2002 with 
a BA in Art History and a minor in Museum Studies. She continued her 
education at the Pratt Institute in New York City where she graduated 
with a MS in Library and Information Science in 2008.
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Janet M. Carleton - carleton at ohio.edu - 740.597.2527
Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Women's & Gender Studies Librarian
Alden 237, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio
Digital Initiatives - http://media.library.ohiou.edu/
Library - http://www.library.ohiou.edu/