People Involved
Patrick Olson
Project Manager and Visiting Assistant Professor
Patrick is an alum of our own Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Before joining us, he spent four years working in the rare book trade. In his free time, he enjoys climbing mountains and skiing down them.
Linda LaPuma Bial
Linda taught both the beginning and advanced cataloging courses at the UIUC GSLIS for fifteen years, having previously worked as a cataloger for both academic and public libraries. Now retired, her work on the Mellon project has brought her full circle, back to the RBML where she did a one-year practicum when she was a GSLIS student herself. She is a Lead Cataloger on the Q & C Project.
Adam Doskey
Adam is a cataloger in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a masters degree from UIUC's Graduate School of Library and Information Science; his professional interests include Malcolm Lowry, book history, and provenance studies.
Kit Moore
Kit is a rare book cataloger who received his degree from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC, in 2005. He is also one of central Illinois' leading collectors of outré/psychedelic/avant garde/outsider musics, cult cinema and pop culture ephemera. Kit is a Lead Cataloger on the Q & C Project.
Laura Koehn
Laura is a recent graduate of the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science and also holds a Certificate in Special Collections through the Midwest Book and Manuscript Studies program at GSLIS.
Daryl Green
Daryl Green is a current student of the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He also has a M. A. in Medieval Studies from the University of York and has professional interests in late medieval manuscript production and early printing.
Alvan BregmanCurator of Rare Books and co-author of the cataloging policies for the project. A crusader for better access to the collections, Alvan also uncovers hidden treasures and catalogs them on a regular basis.
Curator of Special Collections, who is corralling literary manuscript collections, archives, and other "special" collections to make them more accessible through rational processing, finding aids, and collection level records.
Cataloging Specialist in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Renee has worked on uncataloged materials alongside the Mellon grant-sponsored catalogers, concentrating on oversize materials, Bibles, and John Milton.
Dennis
SearsPublic Programs Manager and Curatorial Specialist, Dennis keeps this website running, while also contributing to the general efforts to make all our collections more accessible.
Jane runs Public Services in RBML, insuring that patrons can find what they are looking for. Our Quick & Clean Rare Book Cataloging Project is increasing her business-and she is pleased with the new customers!
The Principal Investigator for this grant/project and Head of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library who cracks the whip and finds the funding to keep our Quick & Clean Rare Book Cataloging Project going. She also enjoys looking over the catalogers' shoulders to admire the wonderful books they are describing.
