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19 August 2009

Eight SLIS alumni and students work at NASA Ames Research Center in Summer 2009

Eight SLIS alumni and students are working at NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain View, California, this summer.   From left to right are Lisa Sewell, April Gage, Jillian Slater, Sarah Bates, Jessica Pryde, Beverly McLeod, Mary Ellen Petrich, and Sjuli Senn van Basel Wagemans.

Gage, the Ames archivist, is being assisted by Slater this summer.  Bates is a Data Archive Project intern for the ALSDA (Animal Life Science Data Archive).  Petrich is working on a retrospective cataloging project at the Ames Life Sciences Library. Sewell, Pryde, and van Basel Wegemans are staffing the temporary library of the International Space University's Space Studies Program hosted at NASA Ames this summer, under the supervision of McLeod, the Ames library manager.

Dr. Pat Franks elected vice content editor for business archives section of American Archivists

Dr. Pat Franks was elected vice content editor for the business archives section of the Society of American Archivists at their Annual Conference held in Austin, Texas, August 11-16, 2009.

Franks will serve as vice editor for the 2009-2010 term and move into the position of editor for the 2010-2011 term. The Business Archives Section is comprised of employees of corporations, businesses, non-profit organizations and associations, who administer and provide access to non-current records from a historical and archival standpoint.

The Business Archives Section produces a Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada .

Dr. Franks is a SLIS associate professor and teaches classes in archives and information retrieval.

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