LU Lone Arranger: August 2010

LU Lone Arranger

"Lone arranger" is archivist-speak for someone who works as a solo professional, rather than as a member of a large team of archivists (a generalist rather than a specialist). In this weblog I will share announcements, responses to reference questions that have come my way, and some of my previously unpublished writings relating to Lincoln University and its Archives and Special Collections, located in The Langston Hughes Memorial Library of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania.

About Me

Name: Susan Gunn Pevar

Location: United States

I was the Special Collections Librarian in Lincoln University of PA’s Langston Hughes Memorial Library from August 15 2005 - August 12, 2010, having served as Archivist Assistant in the same department prior to that, starting in 2000. My advanced degrees are an M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Sciences) from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. (history) from West Chester University (PA), and I am a Certified Archivist (by ACA, The Academy of Certified Archivists). My undergraduate major (Bryn Mawr College) was anthropology.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

My last day in Special Collections

Today is my last day working in Lincoln University’s Special Collections and Archives, as my position of Special Collections Librarian has been eliminated. Hence, this will very likely be my final post. The Langston Hughes Memorial Library building remains closed, as renovations continue, and I remain cautiously optimistic that once the building reopens the decision-makers will have second thoughts about leaving Lincoln’s historic archival records unattended and will decide to hire an archivist to oversee them.

For the coming academic year I will remain on campus, with the title of Assistant Professor in Special Programs, working in the Office of Institutional Research, assisting the grants writer.