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JPEG of Mahnaz Ghaznavi

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City: Los Angeles, CA

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Archival Collections
  • Continuing Education in LIS
  • Electronic Documents
  • Funding
  • Information Architecture
  • Information Policy
  • Preservation of Collections
  • Records Management

Research Interests

  • Archival Collections
  • Continuing Education in LIS
  • Electronic Documents
  • Information Architecture
  • Information Policy
  • Preservation of Collections
  • Records Management

Mahnaz Ghaznavi

Lecturer

Mahnaz Ghaznavi has held appointments as a records manager for the J. Paul Getty Trust, an archivist for CSU, Dominguez Hills. She has also served as program officer responsible for grant making in the areas of digitization and electronic records management for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and adjunct faculty for UCLA's Information Studies program.

Her experiences managing the day-to-day responsibilities that have come with these various positions have informed, and been informed by, taking part is various digital preservation research initiatives. Collaboration on the Persistent Archives Testbed project, administered by the University of California, San Diego Supercomputer Center, as well the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) project, administered by the University of British Columbia, SUNY-Albany, and UCLA, have helped her to better anticipate the possibilities for the future while managing the present realities of everyday work.

Courses Taught

Education

  • MLIS (Library Science) University of California, Los Angeles (2002)
  • MA (Italian) Columbia University (1992)
  • BA (History) University of California, Los Angeles (1991)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Conservatory Librarian, American Film Institute (2009-)
  • Director for Technology Initiatives, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives (2009)
  • Adjunct Faculty, University of California, Los Angeles (2003-)
  • Records Manager, J. Paul Getty Trust (2003-2009)
  • Archivist, California State University, Dominguez Hills (2002-2003)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Ghaznavi, M. (2009). A review of “Leading and Managing Archives and Records Programs, Strategies for Success” Bruce W. Dearstyne (Ed.). Journal of Archival Organization, 7 (4), 225-227.
  • Ghaznavi, M. (2009, August). Building sustainability into your next grant proposal. Paper presented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
  • Ghaznavi, M. (2007, February). InterPARES 2 Project Policy Cross-domain Research and Findings: Principles Guiding Policy for Creators & Preservers. Paper presented at the meeting of the Government of British Columbia Corporate Information Management Branch.
  • Meagher, L., Ghaznavi, M., Besser, H., Maxwell, T., Suderman, J. (2006, April). InterPARES 2 Written Comments to the Library of Congress Section 108 Committee.
  • Ghaznavi, M., Hubbard, S., Suderman, J., Duranti, L., Preston, R. (2006, October). InterPARES 2 Written Comments to the review committee of ISO 14721: 2003 Space data and information transfer systems -- Open archival information system -- Reference model (OAIS).
  • Ghaznavi, M. (2006, September). Making it work: lessons learned from the design and implementation of the integrated records and archives management program at the J. Paul Getty Trust. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Council on Archives, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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