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Germain Bienvenu

Public Services Librarian

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Germain Bienvenu

Public Services Librarian

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Experience

General Librarian, LSU Special Collections Public and Research Services, 2020 - Present
Library Associate III, LSU Special Collections Public and Research Services, 2001-2019
Academic Adviser, LSU Academic Center for Athletes, 1993-2001
Graduate Assistant, LSU Academic Center for Athletes, 1988-1993

Instructor of English, St. Joseph Seminary College, 1984-1987

Education

Louisiana State University, PhD, English, 1995
University of New Orleans, MA, English Language and Literature, 1985
Northwestern State University of Louisiana, BA, English Education, 1981

Research Interests

Louisiana Histories, Cultures, and Literatures

Camille Boechler

Assistant Processing Archivist

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Kylee Burgess

Graduate Assistant

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Keerthi Chandrashekar

Processing Archivist

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Keerthi Chandrashekar

Processing Archivist

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Experience

Processing Archivist, LSU Libraries Special Collections, 2022–Present
Digital Collections / Web & IT Intern, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2021–2022
Graduate Archives Assistant, University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections, 2018–2019

Education

Drexel University, Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), 2022
New York University, Bachelor of Arts - Economics, 2012

Research Interests

Blues Music Studies
Anthropology / Folk Studies

Conscious Description
Critical Librarianship
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Library Programming

Meredith Contreras

Special Collections Outreach & Events Coordinator

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Gina Costello

Associate Dean, Technology & Special Collections

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Manuscript Collections

Gina Costello

Associate Dean, Technology & Special Collections

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Responsibilities

Gina Costello oversees the technology initiatives and special collections units in the LSU Libraries. Her responsibilities in technology initiatives include strategic direction and oversight of the website, application/software development, systems and desktop support, digitization, and digital scholarship. She manages a special collections department of 20 faculty and staff and is responsible for endowments of nearly $6 million. She was previously head of the Digital Services Department where she was responsible for the digitization of materials found in the Libraries and for collaborative digitization efforts within and outside the Libraries. She serves as the LSU Libraries contact for the Louisiana Digital Library (LDL). From 2009-2015, she was Project Director or co-director of the Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project through the Library of Congress.

Experience

Co-Principal Investigator, “…And 25 of our closest friends: The Louisiana Digital Library as Community-Focused Data,” January 2020-June 2021. Collections as Data: Part to Whole, Mellon Foundation re-grant. Funded $49,845.
Proposal author and Project Manager, Digital Scholarship funding support, 2016-2020. LSU Center for Computation and Technology and Office of Research & Economic Development. Funded $95,000.
Proposal author and Project Manager, “Digital Signage and Wayfinding in LSU Libraries” award from LSU Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee, March 2018-July 2019. Funded $30,800.
Proposal author and Project Manager, “Equipment for LSU Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Lab” award from LSU Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee, November 2015-June 2016. Funded $29,793.
Co-Principal Investigator, Project Ceres grant, “Louisiana Digital BibliAGraphy: 100 Years of LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1888-1898.” August 2014-July 2015, $3,400.
Co-Author and Technical Partner, Mississippi Department of Archives and History National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program grant. September 2013 - August 2015, $95,470 (LSU sub-award).
Project Director, NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grant. September 2013 - August 2015, $210,000.
Co-Project Director, NEH-funded “Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past.” May 2013-April 2015, $194,152.
Co-Principal investigator, Louisiana Agricultural Center Sugar Research Station-funded digitization of The Sugar Bulletin and other resources. Funded 2012-2014, $6,240.
Project Manager, Louisiana Board of Regents-funded “Building Digital Resources for Research: Creating a Digitized Collection of United States Army Corps of Engineers Publications and Related Historical Materials for Access and Preservation.” 2012-2013, $86,800.
Project Director, NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grant. Funded September 2011 - August 2013, $285,000.
Project Manager, Louisiana Sea Grant sponsored project to develop image and map collections in the Louisiana Digital Library. March - December 2010, $9,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries-funded project to digitizeLouisiana Conservationist and associated titles. July 2010 - July 2011, $3,120.
Co-Project Director, NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grant. July 2009 -June 2011, $351,380.
Project Manager, Louisiana Board of Regents-funded "Louisiana Historical Newspapers: Preservation and Access." 2006-2008, $400,000.
Co-Principal Investigator and Project Manager, Louisiana Sea Grant College-funded project to digitize the Percy Viosca historic photograph collection. April-December 2007; $9,898.
Co-Author and Project Manager, Baton Rouge Area Foundation-funded project to digitize Margaret Stones watercolors collection. August 2006-January 2007, $8,900.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Educational Leadership & Research, Higher Education Administration, Louisiana State University (LSU), anticipated 2022
Master of Arts, Applied Research, Measurement & Evaluation, LSU, anticipated 2022
Master of Science, Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2004
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Education, Mississippi College, 1997

Presentations

“Exploring Leader-Follower Duality and Role Identity in Library Middle Managers.” ALA Core Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 8, 2021.
“Online Practitioner-Oriented Graduate Programs: Are they meeting the needs of new professionals?.” Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 6-8, 2019.
“Evolving Statewide Digital Libraries,” with Jason Battles, University of Georgia. Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), St. Louis, MO, April 8-9, 2019.
“Leading 21st Century Digital Design in 20th Century Library Spaces,” with Dr. Donald Gilstrap, University of Alabama. Designing for Digital Conference, Austin, TX, March 4-6, 2019.
“Evolving Leadership in Academic Librarianship and Challenges to a Sustainable Workforce.” LSU Curriculum Camp, Baton Rouge, February 22, 2019.
Moderator, “Sustaining Digital Humanities Centers” panel discussion. Digitorium, Tuscaloosa, AL, October 4-6, 2018.
“Digital Projects & Digital Libraries” Louisiana Library Administrators Fall Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, November 3, 2017. [Invited talk.]
“Peer-to-peer Learning to Advance Digital Preservation” with Barrie Howard, Library of Congress. Digital Library Federation annual forum, Pittsburgh, PA, October 25, 2017.
“Success through Collaboration: LSU Libraries and Graduate School Theses and Dissertations Migration Project.” Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference (SMIRC), Hattiesburg, MS, April 13, 2017.
“Digital Preservation: From Identifying Content to Providing Access” .5 day pre-conference workshop. Louisiana Library Association Conference, Lafayette, LA, March 7, 2017.
Deep South Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Workshop, September 19-23, 2016, Jackson, MS. In collaboration with the Library of Congress [Workshop organizer.]
"Digital Libraries Research and the Future of the Louisiana Digital Library” with Rachel Tillay, Tulane University. Louisiana Library Association Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 9, 2016.
“Proposal Development in the Arts & Humanities” panel discussion for LSU Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED), March 12, 2015.
“Digitization Basics” at Louisiana Federal Depository Library Council meeting, Lafayette, LA, November 14, 2014.
“Digital Project Management Basics & Beyond” with Rachel Tillay, LSU Libraries. LOUIS User’s Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, October 16, 2014.
ORED sponsored Data Management workshops with Bill Armstrong, LSU Libraries. Spring and Fall 2014.
“Sweetening the Deal: A Digitization Partnership Between LSU Libraries and the LSU AgCenter Sugar Research Station” with Cristina Caminita, LSU Libraries. Louisiana Library Association Conference, Lafayette, LA, March 27, 2014.
“Digitization Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary, Cross-Profession Discussion” [Panelist.] Society of American Archivists Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 17, 2013.
“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned: Ways to Maximize your Learning Potential in Tough Economic Times” with Kelly Blessinger at ACRL/LLAMA Spring Virtual Institute - “Doing Well by Doing Good”: Entrepreneurial Leadership for Librarians, April 21-22, 2010.
“Oral Histories from ‘Analog’ to Louisiana ‘Digital’ Library at LOUIS User’s Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, October 21-22, 2010.
"Digital Archiving and Digital Project Management” at Association for Conservation Information Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, July 16, 2009.
“Creating and Managing Online Exhibits” Pre-Conference workshop (half day) at Rice University, Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Conference, Houston, TX, May 21, 2008.

Publications

Blessinger, Kelly and Gina Costello “The Effect of Economic Recession on Institutional Support for Tenure-Track Librarians in ARL Institutions.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 37:4 (2011): 307-311. Costello, Gina R. “Digitization and Access of Louisiana Oral Histories: One Oral History Center’s Experience in the Digital Realm” In K. Ng and J. Kucsma (Eds.)
Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned from Small and Medium-sized Digitization Projects (2010) New York, NY: Metropolitian New York Library Council.
Costello, Gina R. and Alice Daugherty “Analysis of Job Responsibilities of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Human Resource Professionals” In E. Pankl, D. Theiss-White and M. Bushing (Eds.), Recruitment, Development, and Retention of Information Professionals: Trends in Human Resources and Knowledge Management (2010) Hershey, PA: IGI Publishing.
Costello, Gina R. “Louisiana Coastal Wetlands and Louisiana Coastal Grey Literature: Vanishing Treasures.” Publishing Research Quarterly 23:1 (2007): 19-29. Reprinted from The Grey Journal.

Service

Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
American Library Association (ALA) Core committee chair, member
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Association (RBMS)
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Community Representative
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant review panelist, 2007, 2015, 2021
Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant reviewer, 2018
National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant reviewer, 2015

Barry Cowan

Assistant Processing Archivist

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Jennifer Abraham Cramer

Director, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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Jennifer Abraham Cramer

Director, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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Experience

Director, T Harry Williams Center for Oral History, LSU Libraries Special Collections, 2004-present
Media Review Editor, The Oral History Review, Oxford Journals, 2010-2017
Assistant Director, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, LSU Libraries Special Collections, 2002-2004

Editor, T Harry Williams Center for Oral History, LSU Libraries Special Collections 2000-2002
Various Positions, University of Southern Mississippi

Education

MA (Anthropology) University of Southern Mississippi
BA (History) Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi

Research Interests

The Intersection of Trauma and Oral History (see article)
Veterans History
Dynamics of community collaboration
Environmental History (see co-authored article)

Anne Edwards

Facilities Manager, Hill Memorial Library

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Rachel Guilbeau

Graduate Assistant

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John Guillory

Digital Services Technician

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Leah Wood Jewett

Special Collections Exhibitions Manager

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Leah Wood Jewett

Special Collections Exhibitions Manager

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Education

Louisiana State University, Master of Arts, Anthropology, 2003
Louisiana State University, Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, 1993

Research Interests

Campaigns and Elections: Louisiana

Margaret Stones Research Materials

The Legacies They Built: Honoring Pinkie Gordon Lane, Lutrill and Pearl Payne, and Julian T. White

Alia Kempton

Special Collections Outreach and Instruction Librarian

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Alia Kempton

Special Collections Outreach and Instruction Librarian

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Experience

Outreach and Instruction Librarian, LSU Special Collections, 2022 – present
Research and Instructional Services Assistant, Wilson Special Collections, UNC, 2020 – 2022
Composition Instructor, University of Oregon, 2019 – 2020

Archivist, Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore, 2018 - 2019

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), 2022
University of Oregon, Master’s in Folklore and Public Culture, 2020
Metropolitan State University of Denver, Bachelor of Arts, Independent Study, 2018

Research Interests

Critical librarianship and pedagogy
Curiosity and learning
Educational psychology and brain based learning
Trauma informed librarianship and teaching

Culturally responsive teaching
Anti-racist librarianship and teaching

Kelly Larson

Special Collections Head of Research and Public Services

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Kelly Larson

Special Collections Head of Research and Public Services

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Experience

Head of Research and Public Services, LSU, 2023-Present
Reference and Instruction Librarian, Daytona State College, 2023
Archivist, Stetson University, 2018-2023
College Archivist and Reference Librarian, The Sage Colleges, 2016-2018

Education

Louisiana State University, Master of Library and Information Science, 2015
Louisiana State University, Bachelor of Arts – History (Minor Field: Asian Studies), 2013

Research Interests

Information Behavior and the Creative Process
User Experience Design for Libraries

Universal Design for Learning
Accessible Archives and Disability Studies
Primary Source Literacy
Oral History

Matthieu McIntosh

Graduate Assistant

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Michelle Melancon

Assistant Processing Archivist

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John Miles

Curator of Books and Head of Instruction

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Special Collections Rare Books

John Miles

Curator of Books and Head of Instruction

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Responsibilities

John Miles is responsible for the curation of the printed material in Special Collections, including the McIlhenny Natural History Collection, the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, and the Rare Book Collection. He also oversees and coordinates instruction for Hill Memorial Library.

Experience

Associate Librarian, Curator of Books and Head of Instruction, Special Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries. (2018-present)
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Memphis. (2015-2018, on leave academic year 2015-16)
Professional-in-Residence, Hill Memorial Library and the Department of English, Louisiana State University. (2015-2016)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Memphis. (2009-2015)
Visiting Instructor, Department of English, College of St. Rose. (2008-2009)

Education

PhD, English, Duke University. (2009)
MA, English, University of Arizona. (2002)
BA, English and Biology, Trinity University. (1998)

Presentations

Selected Conference Presentations:

“‘Singular regard unto the simple truth’: Bradford, Plymouth, and the Success of the Declension Narrative.” Religion and Politics in Early America, St. Louis, MO, March 1-4, 2018.
“‘The Title of an History’: Increase Mather’s Transatlantic Historical Project.” Society of Early Americanists Special Topics Conference. London, England, July 17-19, 2014.
“‘A true, if a slight, impression’: Rewriting the Revolution in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s The Linwoods.” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Conference. Oxford, MS, February 20-22, 2014.
“‘Where a past did not haunt’: Native American Erasure in Morrison’s A Mercy.” Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference. Savannah, GA, February 28-March 2, 2013.
“Mary Rowlandson and the Historians: Writing the West into Massachusetts Bay.” Western Literature Association Annual Conference: High Plains Drifting. Spearfish, SD, September 30-October 3, 2009.

Publications

Representative Scholarly Essays:

“Thomas Morton and the Critique of Puritan Intolerance.” Colonial Era to the 19th Century in American Literature. Ed. Laura A. Leibman. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2016. Web.
“Science Fiction and Fantasy.” In A History of Virginia Literature. Ed. Kevin Hayes. New York: Cambridge UP, 2015. Print.
“Captured by Genre: Mary Rowlandson’s Western Imagination on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier.” In Before the West Was West: Pre-1800 Western American Literature. Eds Amy Hamilton and Tom Hillard. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2014. 109-153. Print.
“‘It’s all f***ing amalgamation and capital, ain’t it?’: Deadwood, the Pinkertons, and Westward Expansion.” In The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire. Eds. Paul Stasi and Jennifer Greiman. New York: Continuum, 2012. 62-82. Print. Co-author Jeffrey Scraba.

Scholarly Editing:

Academic advisor and editor. “Mary Rowlandson.” Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Ed. Richard Layman. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2017. Web.

Selected Book Reviews:

Review of T.J. Tomlin, A Divinity for All Persuasions: Almanacs and Early American Religious Life. Early American Literature, 50:3 (November 2016). Print.
Review of Phillip H. Round, Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880. Journal of Ethnic American History, 32:3 (Spring 2013). 110-1. Print.

Research Interests

Early American literature
History of the book

American studies
Print culture
Pedagogy

Hans Rasmussen

Head of Special Collections Technical Services

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hrasmuss@lsu.edu

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Christina Riquelmy

Rare Book Cataloger

225-578-6533

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Danielle Stoulig

Head of Archival Processing

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Manuscript Collections

Danielle Stoulig

Head of Archival Processing

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Experience

Assistant Librarian, Head of Archival Processing, LSU Libraries Special Collections, 2021-present
Librarian I, Children’s Department, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, 2019-2021
Assistant Curator, de Grummond Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, 2011-2019
Manuscripts Processor, de Grummond Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, 2006-2011

Education

University of Southern Mississippi, Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), 2006
University of Southern Mississippi, Bachelor of Arts – History, 1998

Kristina Sutherland

Acquisitions and Processing Associate

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Zach Tompkins

University Archivist

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University Archives & University History

Contact me for donating archives and records pertaining to the history of LSU.

Zach Tompkins

University Archivist

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Experience

University Archivist, Louisiana State University, 2019 - Present

Education

Louisiana State University, Master of Library and Information Science, 2013

Louisiana Tech University, Bachelor of Arts, 2008

Research Interests

University history
Student life

Chairity Waugh

Special Collections Cataloger

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Chairity Waugh

Special Collections Cataloger

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Experience

Special Collections Cataloger, Hill Memorial Library, 2022 - Present
Technical Services Librarian, LSU Veterinary Medicine Library, 2018-2022
Technical Services Librarian, Ascension Parish Library, 2006-2018

Reference Librarian, Ascension Parish Library, 2005-2006

Education

Louisiana State University, Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), 2005
Louisiana State University, Master of Education (M.Ed.), 2003

Caroline Ziegler

Conservation Coordinator

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Caroline Ziegler

Conservation Coordinator

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Responsibilities

Hello! I help preserve the paper and book items at Hill Memorial Library. I create custom housing for unusual pieces which sometimes requires invention, and I stabilize fragile materials so that they can be handled by patrons or digitized. I offer training for proper handling techniques.

I also have a background in artists' books and printmaking.

Experience

Conservation Coordinator, LSU Libraries, 2019-Present 

Studio Manager, Michelle Pressler Jewelry, 2016-2018 

Production Manager, Michelle Pressler Jewelry, 2011-2013 

Conservation Intern, American Philosophical Society Library, 2007 

Education

Louisiana State University, Master of Library and Information Science (MILS), 2024 anticipated 

Louisiana State University, Graduate Certificate in Archival Studies, 2024 anticipated 

The University of the Arts, Master of Fine Arts – Book Arts & Printmaking, 2008 

Louisiana State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts – Printmaking, 2006 

Presentations

"Promoting Your Collection With Zines: A Workshop and Showcase," Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Annual Meeting. Virtual, 09/27/2021.

"New Acquisition: 1863 Louisiana Volunteer Corps D'Afrique Muster Roll" https://youtu.be/I-wwAfIXlg4

Service

Association of College & Research Libraries - Louisiana Chapter, 2021-Present

College Book Art Association

LSU LGBTQ+ Faculty & Staff Caucus, 2018-Present

Society of Southwest Archivists, 2022-Present

Research Interests

Special Collections Preservation & Conservation 

Critical Cataloging & Archival Description 

Teaching with Artists’ Books 