What kinds of careers do archival students engage in after graduation? The alumni profiles below offer a sampling of the diverse and interesting careers our former members are currently pursuing.
Georgette Mayo Georgette Mayo is the Interim Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston. Mayo has worked as a processing and reference archivist at the Avery since 2006. She graduated from the University of South Carolina’s joint master’s program in Library Science (MLIS) and Public History (MA), with a concentration in Archival Management in 2005. A Phi Beta Kappa, she holds a BA degree in African American Studies (2002) from the same institution. Mayo currently serves as Director for the South Carolina Archival Association. Her essay “Parallel Missions: Susan Dart Butler and Ethel Martin Bolden, South Carolina’s African American Pioneer Librarians,” is included in the forthcoming book, South Carolina Women: Their Life and Times, Vol. III, published by University of Georgia Press. Mayo relishes her dual career of being a parent to Olivia Taylor (16), Zora Iman (14) and James the IV aka “Jazz” (11). Find out more about Ms. Mayo's work and the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at www.cofc.edu/avery Carolyn Runyon
Carolyn F. Runyon is the Archivist for Digital Development and University Records at the Ball State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections. A 2008 graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, Carolyn served as the William Davis Melton University Archives graduate assistant at the South Caroliniana Library while earning her MLIS. As part of her assistantship she produced a digital collection, designed an online exhibit, processed a large collection, and helped research a book on Carolina Gamecock football in addition to assisting researchers. As the Archivist for Digital Development and University Records at Ball State University Libraries, Carolyn serves on several working groups regarding the Digital Media Repository, Cardinal Scholar Institutional Repository, metadata standards revision, digital asset management, digital asset visibility, and web development. Furthermore, Ms. Runyon has spearheaded efforts to develop and make available the first DACS-compliant EAD finding aids and been successful in implementing the use of Archivists’ Toolkit collection management software in Archives and Special Collections. Carolyn is currently involved in a project to systematically gather metrics on Ball State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections online resources use, bibliographic instruction, and instructor support. For more information, visit http://cfrunyon.iweb.bsu.edu/. Stephanie Stewart Stephanie Stewart serves as the Moving Image Archivist for the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with Wilson's moving image holdings since 2007. Prior to this position, Stephanie completed a joint archives administration program in library science and public history at the University of South Carolina in 2006 and completed the L. Jeffrey Selznick program in film preservation at the George Eastman House in 2007. Her essay on H. Lee Waters, "Movies of Local People and Useable Past: Mill Town Treasures and Transcendent Views," appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of the The Moving Image. Lori Schwartz Lori Schwartz is Special Projects Archivist at SC Political Collections of the University of South Carolina. (What is SC Political Collections? See: http://www.sc.edu/library/scpc/) Her most time-consuming “special project” has been the processing of the Senator Ernest F. Hollings Papers, the provision of reference to the retired U.S. Senator, and digitization of a small segment of his collection. She is a member of the Steering Committee of SAA’s Congressional Papers Roundtable, serves as Chair of the Archives and Special Collections Roundtable of the SC Library Association, and is a devoted attendee of SC Archival Association conferences and workshops. Schwartz and her colleague, Dorothy Hazelrigg, are currently working on final revisions to “MPLP Revisited: An Alternate Viewpoint,” which has been accepted for publication in The American Archivist spring 2010 issue. She holds a MA in Public History and a MLIS from the University of South Carolina. |