Melanie Griffin received an MA in English Literature and an MLIS with a concentration in rare books librarnship from the University of South Carolina. She received her BA in English and in Foreign Languages: Greek and Latin from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. As an Assistant Librarian in Special & Digital Collections, Melanie is curator for popular culture collections, including children's literature and science fiction. Before coming to USF in 2009, Melanie worked as an assistant cataloger at the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library in the Published Materials Division and was a 2008 Junior Fellow in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress.
Articles
Special collections and the new web: Using LibGuides to provide meaningful access (with Barbara Lewis), Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (2011)
Librarians have long struggled to find user-friendly mediums to provide meaningful information to patrons; using...
Transforming special collections through innovative uses for LibGuides (with Barbara Lewis), Collection Building (2011)
Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the utility of Springshare’s LibGuides platform for special...
Postmodernism, Processing, and the Profession: Towards a Theoretical Reading of Minimal Standars, Provenance (2010)
While the ramifications of minimal standards processing for practice are well-documented, the theoretical questions which...
Reviews
Review of Special Collections 2.0: New Technologies for Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archival Collections, Endnotes: The Journal of the New Mmbers Round Table (2010)
Presentations
Transforming Special Collections: A (Lib)Guide to Innovation. Peer-reviewed poster session presented at the American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference. (with Barbara Lewis), Special & Digital Collections (2010)
“Special Collections as Laboratories,” a recent posting on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s The Wired...