Position at University of Texas

Brooke E. Sheldon, Dean of the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science of the University of Texas at Austin announced today
the formation of a committee charged with conducting a search for a
Director of GSLIS's Preservation and Conservation Studies program. The
Director will succeed Carolyn Harris, who died in January.

Preservation and Conservation Studies, formerly of the School of Library
Service, Columbia University, is the only full graduate program in the
United States for the education of preservation administrators and
conservators for libraries, archives, and historical societies.

The members of the search committee are Gerald Munoff, Deputy Director,
University of Chicago Libraries; James Stroud, Head of Conservation,
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, and
Roberta Pilette and Paul Banks, Senior Lecturers in the Preservation and
Conservation Studies program. The committee is being chaired by David B.
Gracy II, Associate Dean of GSLIS.

Pilette and Banks are serving as Acting Co-Directors of the program
until a new director is appointed.

Applications and nominations for the directorate will be welcomed by the
Search Committee, and can be addressed to Dr Gracy at

    Search Committee
    Graduate School of Library and Information Science, EDB 564
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Austin TX 78712-1276.
    512-471-3821

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