University Project
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SUSAN HAMBURGER
Bellefonte, PA 16823
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EDUCATION
Ph.D.
1994
Florida State University
American History
M.A.
1985
Florida State University
American History
MLS
1976
Rutgers University
Reference and Technical Services
A.B.
1975
Rutgers University
EnglishReturn to top of pageEMPLOYMENT
1/94-present Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian
10/93-7/94 Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Manuscripts Cataloger (grant project)
10/92-9/93 University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Manuscripts Cataloger (grant project)
9/89-10/92 Virginia State Library and Archives
Richmond, VA
Archivist and Head, Description Section
2/81-9/89 Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Associate University LibrarianReturn to top of pageCONTINUING EDUCATION
2003 Rare Book School, University of Virginia
"Publishing EAD Finding Aids" course
2000 Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Architectural Records: Preserving and Managing the Documentation of Our Built Environment" course
1997 Rare Book School, University of Virginia
"Implementing Encoded Archival Description" course
1995 Rare Book School, University of Virginia
"Visual Materials Cataloging" course
1994 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, Madison, WI
1994 Rare Book School, University of Virginia
"Collecting Travel Literature" courseReturn to top of pagePRESENTATIONS"Oliver Spits Out a Finding Aid: Evaluating Software to Use with a Database." In session, "Open Source Tools for Collection Management and Web Delivery." Society of American Archivists, Chicago, Illinois, August 30, 2007.
"Just Say No to Google: Finding Archives and Manuscript Collections on the Web" in session "Unstable Sources: New Approaches to Historical Methodology." American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 5, 2007.
"Thanks for Your Photos and Plow Now What?: Preserving Local History Materials in Small Public and Academic Libraries." Pennsylvania Library Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 15, 2006.
"Moving Beyond APPM to a Global Standard: Using DACS for Cataloging and Finding Aids" in session "The Evolution of Archival Descriptive Standards in the Digital Age." Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Morristown, New Jersey, October 28, 2006.
"Sponsoring Workshops," in the session, "Workshops: Sponsoring, Organizing, Teaching, and Attending," paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Semi-Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 21, 2006.
"When They Said Sit Down, I Stood Up: Springsteen s Social Conscience, Activism, and Fan Response," paper presented at Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium, West Long Branch, New Jersey, September 9, 2005.
"Archival Name Authority in a Library Setting," in the session, "Making a Contribution: Archives Catalogers Participation in NACO and SACO," paper presented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 20, 2005.
"Rejected Manuscripts in Publishers' Archives: Privacy vs. Access," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Archives Association of Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 2, 2004.
"Planning a Barcoding Project," in the session, "The Joys of Barcoding : Managing Collections in an Automated Environment," paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Semi-Annual Meeting, Gettysburg, PA, November 1, 2003.
"And They're Off! Horse Racing in the Sunshine State: Jacksonville and Tampa in the Early Twentieth Century," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, May 2001.
"How Researchers Search for Manuscript and Archival Collections," paper presented at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 28-September 3, 2000.
"SGML to XML to HTML for Displaying EAD Finding Aids." Digital Library Federation's Forum on Digital Library Practices. Washington, D.C., July 17-18, 1999.
"Controlled Vocabulary, Standardized Terminology, or Keyword Searching: Access to Archival and Manuscript Collections via EAD Finding Aids on the Web." Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries division of the American Library Association pre-conference, "Border Crossings: Exploring New Territories for Special Collections." Montreal, Canada, June 21-24, 1999.
"Control vs. Chaos: Controlled Vocabulary, Standardized Terminology, or Keyword Searching; Access to Archival and Manuscript Collections via Finding Aids on the Web." Association of Canadian Archivists/Archives Association of Ontario Conference '99. London, Ontario, June 3-5, 1999.
"How I Spent My Summer Vacations: Using Traditional and Unusual Research Collections To Write about Horse Racing," in the session, "Riders Up!: Documenting Horse Racing in Archives." Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Semi-Annual Meeting. Saratoga Springs, New York, May 8, 1998.
"Archival Publications at the Regional Level: The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 1972-1997," paper presented at the semi-annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Wilmington, Delaware, November 1997.
"'The Wild and Foolish Excitement That Took Away So Many Students': Penn State and the Civil War," paper presented to the Central Pennsylvania Civil War Roundtable and Centre County Historical Society, December 1996.
"Bob White, Bob White: The Sport of Quail Hunting in Leon County, Florida," paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Auburn, Alabama, May 1996.
"Sending Children to War: Agricultural College of Pennsylvania Students in the Civil War," paper presented at the annual conference of the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1996.
"Teaching Tenant Farm Children: Rural Education in Leon County, Florida in the Early Twentieth Century," paper presented at the annual conference of the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1996.
"Violet Oakley: Pennsylvania's Premiere Muralist," paper and slide presentation at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Historical Association, Lewisburg, PA, October 1995.
"From Under a Rock: Organized Crime's Involvement in Florida's Horseracing," paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Long Beach, CA, May 1995.
"The King's Daughters As Angels of Mercy: Tallahassee's Hospitals, 1894-1971," paper presented at the annual conference of the Florida Historical Society, Tallahassee, Florida, May 1995.
"The Controversy Over Pari-Mutuel Betting in Florida, 1925-1931," paper presented at the annual conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 1994.
"On the Land for Life: The Black Tenant Farmers on Tall Timbers Plantation, Leon County, Florida," paper presented at the annual conference of the Southern Historical Association, Norfolk, Virginia, November 1988.
Return to top of pagePUBLICATIONSCo-author with Jeannette Mercer Sabre. "A Case for Item-level Indexing: The Kenneth Burke Papers at The Pennsylvania State University." Journal of Archival Organization 6:24-46 (Nos. 1-2, 2008) Available online as .
"When They Said Sit Down, I Stood Up: Springsteen s Social Conscience, Activism, and Fan Response." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 9: 182-202 (No. 1, 2007)
Co-author with Jane Veronica Charles. "Managing Collections in an Automated Environment: The Joys of Barcoding." Journal of Archival Organization 4: 7-30 (Nos. 3/4, 2007)
Co-author with Ann Copeland, John Hamilton, and Ken Robinson. "Cataloging and Digitizing Ephemera: One Team s Experience with Pennsylvania German Broadsides and Fraktur." Library Resources and Technical Services 50:186-198 (No. 3, 2006) Available online at http://plinks.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&hid=1&sid=6f380420-1878-4a89-9245-e920e92f01d5%40sessionmgr4
"Jimmy Winkfield." 22-page biographical essay in book, Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes. (University of Arkansas Press, Fall 2006)
Architectural Records: Arrangement, Description, and Preservation. Technical Leaflet No. 11. Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 2004.
"How Researchers Search for Manuscript and Archival Collections." Journal of Archival Organization 2 (Nos. 1/2, 2004): 79-102.
"Horse racing," " Oliver Lewis," "Willie Simms," and "Jimmy Winkfield" essays in Historical Dictionary of African Americans in Sport. Edited by David E. Wiggins. (M.E. Sharpe publishers, 2004)
"Ray Bradbury," "James Dickey," and "Bob Dylan" biographical essays in Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century. Edited by John Powell and Derek W. Blakeley. (Greenwood Press, 2004).
"Asbury Park," "Farmingdale," "Freehold," "Howell Township," "Lakewood Township," "Long Beach Township," "Middletown Township," and "Ocean Grove," essays in Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Rutgers University Press, 2004).
"Alexander Farkas," biographical essay in American National Biography online version. (Oxford University Press, 2003).
"Thomas Alva Edison," "Stephen C. Foster," and "William Lloyd Garrison" biographical essays in Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. Edited by John Powell and Derek W. Blakeley. (Greenwood Press, 2001).
"Life with Grant: Administering Manuscripts Cataloging Grant Projects." American Archivist 62 (Spring 1999): 130-152.
"We Take Care of Our Womenfolk: The Home for Needy Confederate Women in Richmond, Virginia," chapter in Before the New Deal: Southern Social Welfare History, 1830-1930, ed. by Elna Green (University of Georgia Press, 1999).
(Co-author with Martin Goldberg) "The Challenge to Change; Creating Diversity in Libraries." C&RL News 59: 840-842 (December 1998).
Biographical essays in American Book and Magazine Illustrators to 1920 volume of Dictionary of Literary Biography (Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1998)
"Elizabeth Shippen Green"
"Violet Oakley"
"Jessie Willcox Smith"
Biographical essays in American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999)
"Louis Bamberger"
"Barron Gift Collier"
"George Hammell Cook"
"Charles Louis Fleischmann"
"Lewis Ginter"
"John Gorrie"
"Gazaway Bugg Lamar"
"John Leeds"
"William L. McKnight"
"Henry Perrine"
"Joseph A. Rosen"
"Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane"
"Isidor Straus"
"Jesse Isidor Straus"
"Harry Payne Whitney"
"John Hay Whitney"
"Stock Car Racing in Rural America," essay in Encyclopedia of Rural America (ABC-CLIO, 1997)
"Musical and Narrative Recordings," chapter 47 in The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research, ed. by Steven E. Woodworth (Greenwood Press, 1996)
"Tallahassee's Hospitals, 1894-1971." Apalachee 198*-****-**: 68-82 (1991).
"Special Collections, The Florida State University Library," chapter 20 in
A Guide to the History of Florida, ed. by Paul S. George (Greenwood Press, 1989).
"On the Land for Life: Black Tenant Farmers on Tall Timbers Plantation." Florida Historical Quarterly 66 (1987): 152-59.
"The 1968 Tallahassee Riots Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr." Apalachee 1980-1983 9 (1984): 57-66.
Book, audio, and video reviews in
History
Civil War Times
History News
International Journal of the History of Sport
Journal of Sport History
Oral History Review
Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter
Southern Historian Librarianship
Collection Building
Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services
Library Journal
Library Resources and Technical Services
Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship
Science fiction columnist, Library Journal, January 1996-December 1997
Book reviewer for Centre Daily Times newspaper, November 1997-2001
Return to top of pageWEBSITES CREATED
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
http://www.marac.info
History of the Book and Printing [Web site is no longer available]
Penn State Center for the History of the Book
http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/histofbook/
Pennsylvania State University. Agricultural Extension Service. County Extension Agent Collection, 1912-1988
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/psua/agcountyagents/pamap2.htm
The Heinz K. and Bridget A. Henisch Collection of the History of Photography
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/rbm/collections/henisch.htm
Return to top of pageHONORS
Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
Return to top of pageMEMBERSHIPS
Academy of Certified Archivists
Association for Documentary Editing
Florida Historical Society
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
North American Society for Sport History
Society of American Archivists
Southern Association for Women Historians
Southern Historical Association
Tallahassee Historical Society
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