From 2007-2009, I was one of the two first Gerald H. and Victoria C. T. Read Graduate Assistants appointed in the Kent State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives.
The merit-based award includes a stipend plus a tuition scholarship. It is given to a full-time library school student interested in special collections and archives who exhibits a high level of scholarship and academic excellence. Read more about the Read family’s generous gift here and here.
Announcing the exhibit I curated and mounted for Special Collections and Archives at Kent State University: The Life and Work of True Crime Historian Jonathan Goodman.
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As a graduate assistant in the university archives, I interviewed and transcribed oral histories about the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State.
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As a graduate assistant, I appraised and processed the papers of a former Professor of School Psychology. This was Kent’s first archival collection to receive minimal processing. Includes research materials on the impact on children of divorce, maternal employment, and father involvement.
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As a graduate assistant at Kent State, I arranged and described the records for a six volume critical edition of the works of America’s first novelist. The collection includes an unpublished manuscript on Brown. The materials are richly described at the item level.
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A sampling of the online finding aids I worked on as a graduate assistant in Kent State University’s Special Collections and Archives.
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Read the speech I delivered at the dedication of the Gerald H. and Victoria C. T. Read Special Collections Classroom and Processing Center at Kent State University.
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On Thursday, April 24, Anthony G. Edwards will deliver a lecture entitled “The Creation of Manuscript Fragments: The Life and Works of Otto Ege.” I prepared Kent State’s Ege manuscripts for display at this event.
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Robin is currently the Outreach + Public Services Archivist at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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