[Libs-Or] OLA Quarterly Author Showcase | Iris Godwin & Alla Powers, OIT | Developing Special Collections of Interest to Local Communities

[OLA Communications Committee]

Iris Godwin is the Head of the Special Collections and University Archives
and Alla Powers is the Special Collections Librarian at the Oregon
Institute of Technology. Please download and read their latest
article, “Developing
Special Collections of Interest to Local Communities,” here:
http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_4


For several years, Iris was Head of the Technical Services Department. She
received her B.A. in history from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and
an MLIS from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with an emphasis on
archives and special collections. In February of 2018, she earned the SAA
Archives and Description Certificate. She currently serves on the Alliance,
Unique and Local Content Team and chairs the Archival Collection Management
Standing Group.


Alla Powers: My experience in the library world goes back to 1988. In my
home country, Russia, I worked in academic and public library settings. In
the United States I briefly worked in the Klamath County Library, and in
2004 I began my career in the Oregon Tech Library. Right from the start I
was involved in both patron service and collection development, adding
metadata to the scanned photographs for the Klamath Waters Digital Library.
And so my love for digital content was born. Since then I expanded my
experience by working with several digital collections. The work in the
Special Collections is very versatile and challenging, and involves
learning new skills. For example, mastering EAD encoding for creation of
Finding Aids for the Archives West website.



Thank you,

Charles Wood

OLA Quarterly Coordinator
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