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News: Robin Chandler appointed Online Archive of California (OAC) Manager 

News about the STHC Roundtable's former Chair, Robin Chandler, 
forwarded to STHC-L from the UC-EAD listserv.  Instead of forwarding 
the attachment that the message mentions, I pasted the file's text to 
the end of this posting.

Congratulations, Robin -- it'll be good to have a strong voice for 
Sci/Tech/Health Care historical collections at the helm of one of the 
California Digital Library's core services!

Russell Johnson

P.S.:  The homepage for the California Digital Library is 
 ; for the Online Archive of California look at 
<http://www.oac.cdlib.org/>


--- Begin Forwarded Message ---
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:43:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Beverlee French 
Subject: Fwd: Chandler appointed OAC Manager
Sender: uc-ead@library.berkeley.edu

TO:    Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections
         Collection Development Committee
         SOPAG
         OAC Working Group
         OAC Participants
         Heads of Special Collections
         UC Archivists Council
         Bibliographer Group Chairs

FROM:  Beverlee French,  CDL Director for Shared Content

I am very pleased to announce that Robin Chandler will join the CDL as 
the Online Archive of California Manager on May 8, 2000.  Attached is a 
full announcement that highlights her successes and will also appear in 
the next CDLInfo.  Robin is currently Head of Archives and Special 
Collections at the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management and 
she is serving as chair of the UC Archivists Council.   Please join me 
in welcoming Robin Chandler to the CDL.

I would also like to take this opportunity to call your attention to a 
summary that I wrote in preparation for the recruitment, "Online 
Archive of California Transition 1999-2000" which is at 
www.cdlib.org/libstaff/sharedcoll/oac .  It reviews the progress and 
status of the OAC and some of the challenges ahead.

Chairs of HOSC and UCAC, will you please forward to your respective 
groups if they are not all on uc-ead.   Thank you.

--- End Forwarded Message ---

TEXT FROM ATTACHMENT:

Robin Chandler named Online Archive of California Manager	

The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce that Robin 
L. Chandler will assume the new position of Online Archive of 
California Manager on May 8, 2000.  A core component of the CDL, the 
Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource 
that facilitates and provides access to primary source materials such 
as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, 
museums, archives, and other institutions across California.  As OAC 
Manager, Ms. Chandler will lead the CDL in building and managing the 
OAC within a collaborative framework.  

Robin Chandler brings a breadth of experience and a record of 
leadership within the archivists' community to this position.  She has 
participated in advancing the OAC, particularly as a member of the OAC 
Working Group and Chair of the UC Archivists Council.  Ms. Chandler is 
currently Head of Archives and Special Collections at the UC San 
Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management, where she has 
developed and managed the digital Tobacco Control Archives.  She has 
held a number of other progressively responsible positions in museums 
and archives, starting with an internship at the Smithsonian and 
including Archivist and public services librarian for the Stanford 
Linear Accelerator Center.  She has been active in the Society of 
American Archivists and the California Society of Archivists and has 
numerous publications, presentations, and successful grants to her 
credit.  Her BA is from UC Davis in Art Studio and Art History, her 
MLIS from UC Berkeley with emphasis in Archives Management.  She also 
holds an MA in American History from San Francisco State University.  

Please join us in welcoming Robin Chandler to the California Digital Library.


March 28, 2000
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