Experience

Texas Woman's University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Special Collections

  • Sep 2010 - Present

  Consult with faculty and library staff to assure Woman's Collection holdings are up-to-date and pertinent to the University’s curriculum. Identify future goals, prepares annual achievement statements, and oversee all basic functions of the special collections. Administers the historical collections of the university, including the Woman’s Collection, the University Archives, the Cookbook Collection, the Oral History Project, Women Airforce Service Pilots Archive, Women Military Aviators Collection, Texas State PEO Archive, Whirly Girls International Collection, and the Photograph Digital Project, providing care, preservation, accessioning, and inventorying of gifts and purchases, donor relations, reference service, and legal contracts transferring materials to TWU. Directs the process of identifying collection development areas and obtaining historical materials such as manuscripts and books to add to the University’s research collection. Assists in fundraising efforts for the Woman’s Collection, recommends expenditures of interest income from the WASP Endowment, the Woman’s Collection Endowments, the Elizabeth Thomas Endowment, and others. Show less