Artifacts come to life at Illinois Wesleyan University! As the University's Archivist, I help cultivate interest in IWU's history among alumni, students, faculty and administrators by arranging and providing access to university records in physical and digital formats. I also have curatorial responsibilities for Special Collections and have working with a variety of campus offices on our records management program. Additionally, I am the library's liaison to History and Nursing/Health and provide group and individual research assistance and instruction sessions in these areas. My research interests include the impact digital collections are having on scholarship as well as the role archives play in documenting under-served communities. The contents of this Web site may be used in accordance with Creative Commons (CC) permissions listed at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Articles
Women’s Health Guides, Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources (2010)
The fight for equal rights for women may be over a hundred years old, but...
Working within the Spectrum: Employees with Asperger Syndrome in Our Library, ILA Reporter (2009)
People on the high-functioning end of the Autism spectrum, such as those with Asperger Syndrome,...
Archives and Native American Genealogy: A Researcher’s Perspective, Part 2, MAC Newsletter (2009)
This is the second and final part of an article containing an interview with Barbara...
Archives and Native American Genealogy: A Researcher’s Perspective, MAC Newsletter (2008)
This is the first of a two-part article containing an interview with Barbara Madison, a...
Books
Website Records Management: An ARMA International Guideline (2009)
This guideline explores how information posted on websites may constitute records. It offers records and...
Contributions to Books
Records Management at Illinois Wesleyan University (with Christina J. Zamon), The Lone Arranger: Succeeding in a Small Repository (2012)
Author and lone arranger Christina Zamon uses a deft touch to address a comprehensive range...
Presentations
Collecting Campus Culture: Collaborations and Collisions (with Stephanie Davis-Kahl), Society of American Archivists (2011)
[Note: This poster was revised by Meg Miner from an April 2011 work presented by...
Collecting Campus Culture: Collaborations and Collisions (with Stephanie Davis-Kahl), Association of College & Research Libraries Fourteenth National Conference (2011)
This presentation will discuss the catalyst, development and implementation of The Ames Library's institutional repository...
Gems from IWU’s History, "Back to College," Illinois Wesleyan University Homecoming 2010 (2010)
This presentation was made at the request of the Alumni Office, Illinois Wesleyan University.
The Work and Words of Early Women at IWU, Panhellenic Tea: The Chicago Alumni Board and The Greek Alumni Network (2010)
This presentation draws on facts from well-known IWU history sources and brings to light other...
Going Green to Save Some Green (with Chris Sweet), Illinois Association for College & Research Libraries 2010 Spring Conference (2010)
In a time of shrinking endowments and reduced budgets can libraries really hope to make...
Unpublished Papers
IWU Records Management Overview (2007)
This white paper intends to inform the campus community about the need for a records...