Preservation Librarian Appointed

Media contact: Chelcy Boyer , tel. (919) 515-3585

The NCSU Libraries has appointed Jamie D. Bradway as Preservation Librarian, effective immediately.

Jamie Bradway will provide professional oversight for the full scope of preservation services in the NCSU Libraries. Through preventative maintenance, conservation treatment, and disaster planning and response, Preservation Services ensures that the Libraries? collections are preserved for the future. A state-of-the-art preservation lab, with traditional and digital preservation capabilities, opening March 12, 2007 in the newly renovated East Wing of D. H. Hill Jr. Library, will soon further enable these functions.

For the past four years, Bradway has served as Conservation Services Manager at NCSU Libraries, supervising binding, shelf preparation and conservation operations. In this role he managed personnel and budgets, served as Preservation liaison to public and technical services departments, and performed conservation repairs to circulating and special collections. Bradway came to the NCSU Libraries from the Bookstore at the University of Montana, where as Campus Representative, he worked with professors to create coursepacks, obtain copyright permissions, and manage production and inventory to meet students? needs.

Bradway will earn the Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University at the end of this semester. He holds the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with emphasis in Comparative Religion and History, from the University of Montana, where he graduated with High Honors. Bradway has participated in a variety of preservation-related conferences and workshops; he recently represented North Carolina Central University at the Digital Preservation Management Workshop at Cornell University in order to assist NCCU in developing the curriculum for a course on this topic.