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Lynda Kachurek

Head of Book Arts, Archives, and Rare Books
  • Profile

    As Head of Book Arts, Archives, and Rare Books at Boatwright Memorial Library, Lynda Kachurek is responsible for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to materials in the library’s special collections and rare book room as well as providing reference assistance and instruction with those collections.  Additionally, she is currently the liaison librarian for the Department of History and provides collection development and information literacy instruction for that area.  Prior to this position, she worked as Collections Manager and Digital Projects Coordinator for Special Collections and Archives at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Instructional responsibilities have included both undergraduate information literacy courses and graduate student courses on oral history, public history, archival processing, and archival technologies. 

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    • Presentations

      "Partnering with Maker Spaces in Special Collections Teaching," TPS Fest, July 2024

      "Printing at Work: When Librarianship Means Making," RBMS Conference, Bloomington, IN June 2023

      “UR Archives & Rare Books,” Cove Book Club & Briarwood Book Club joint meeting, Sept. 2022

      “Designing a Legacy: Collaborative Donor Relations with the Living Donor,” MARAC Spring Conference, Hershey, PA, April 2018

      “UR’s Rare Books & Special Collections Overview,” UR Chapel Guild Meeting, January 2017

      “UR’s Rare Books & Special Collections: New Additions,” UR Friends of the Library Lunch With a Librarian, January 2017

      Webinar Presenter: “Historian’s Workshop: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom,” LYRASIS Second Friday Series, April 2016

      “UR’s Rare Books & Special Collections Overview,” UR Boatwright Society Board Meeting, February 2016

      “Rev. Wyatt Tee and Theresa Ann Walker Collection at UR,” UR’s MLK Commemoration Service, January 2016

      “Freeing Rapunzel: Congressman Abbitt’s Collection and the Historian’s Workshop,” MARAC Fall Conference, Roanoke, VA, October 2015

      “Richmond Times-Dispatch Town Hall Archives Event,” October 2015

      “Freeing Rapunzel: Rescuing a Forgotten Collection from the Tower, or the Historian’s Workshop in Action,” Virginia Humanities Conference, Marymount College, April 2015

      “Open Sesame! Creating an Academic Archive,” MARAC Fall Conference, November 2013

      “Voices of Change: Disability Rights Activism in 1970s Ohio,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, October 2012

      “The Changing Face of Reference Services: Cooperative Cross-training and Evaluation,” Society of Ohio Archivists Spring Conference, May 2009

      “The 100-Hour Challenge: Using Students as Volunteers in Oral History,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, October 2008

      “Cold War Aerospace Technology Project,” Poster session, Sustaining Military Readiness Department of Defense Legacy Program, July 2007

      “Cold War Aerospace Technology Project Presentations,” WSU Brown Bag Lunch Series, Huffman Prairie Aviation Historical Society, Friends of the WSU Library Board meeting, Wright State University President and Board of Trustees, University All-Staff meeting, 2006-2008

      “’It’s Where it Started’: Conversations with a Centenarian,” Wright State University Graduate Colloquium, May 2006

      “’To Risk Everything in Defense of the Cause’: Religion, Diplomacy, and Don Bernardino de Mendoza’s Ambassadorship to England, 1578-1584,” 25th Annual Meeting, Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, April 1994

    • Memberships

      Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)

      Virginia Heritage / Archives of the Virginias

      Society of American Archivists

      Phi Alpha Theta

    • Professional Experience

      Head, Book Arts, Archives, and Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library (August 2012-Present)

      Adjunct Instructor, Public History and Information Literacy, Wright State University (2009-2012)

      Collections Manager/Digital Projects Coordinator, Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University (Jan. 2008-July 2012)

      Reference Manager, Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University (Oct. 2006-Dec. 2007)

      Project Archivist/Oral Historian, Cold War Aerospace Technology Grant Project, Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University (Oct. 2005-Oct. 2006)

      Archival Intern, Research Division, National Museum of the United States Air Force (May-Sept. 2005)

      Adjunct Instructor of History, Millikin University (1993-1995)

      Graduate Instructor of History, Purdue University (1991-1995)

    • Institutional Service

      A&S Undergraduate Student Academic Integrity Committee, 2019-2021

      Osher Institute Instructor, Fall 2013 – present

      A&S Shared Governance Task Force, Fall 2017-Summer 2020

      Presidential Commission on University History & Identity, Nov 2018 – June 2019

      Concept 30 Planning Committee Member, Spring 2017 - present

      Faculty Learning Community Participant, “The Confident Leader,” Fall 2016 – Spring 2017

      Faculty Learning Community Organizer, “History and Art of the Book,” Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

      UR Compliance Oversight Committee, 2016 – 2021

      Peer Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 2015 – present

      Chair, Modlin Award Committee, April 2013 - present

      Small Member Level Representative, ArchivesSpace Governance Board, 2013 – 2016

      Outreach Committee, Virginia Heritage, 2012 – 2020

      Digital Asset Management Working Group, 2014

      Library Council, 2012 – 2015

      Student Supervisors Team, 2012 – present

      Stacks Working Group, 2012 – present

      Library Assessment Committee, Aug. 2012 – May 2013

  • Publications
    Books

    Co-author, with Dr. Gordon Mork, Test Item File, for Winks, Britton, Christopher, and Wolff, A History of Civilization: Prehistory to the Present, 8th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992

    Assistant Compiler, The Bahamas Index: 1986. Steve Dodge, Compiler/Editor.  Decatur, IL: White Sound Press, 1987

    Journal Articles

    "Uncommon Courses: For the Love of Books," The Conversation, 21 November 2022 https://theconversation.com/this-course-teaches-how-to-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-and-its-pages-print-and-other-elements-of-its-design-190817

    “Back to Class: The Secret Life of Books,” Discover Richmond, June 2019.

    "Unmasking a Pirate," UR Magazine, May 2016 (http://magazine.richmond.edu/silo/article/-/13453/unmasking-a-pirate.html)

    “Help for the Home: Capturing Family Stories,” Wright State University Libraries Access, Summer 2007

    “Conversations with a Centenarian,” Wright State University Libraries Access, Summer 2006

    Book Chapters

    “Beginning at the End,” The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care, Routledge International, June 2019

    Reviews

    “Describing Music Materials: A Manual for Resource Description of Printed & Recorded Music and Music Videos.” Mid-Atlantic Archivist, Summer 2018, 4-5.

    John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money, and the English State, 1688-1793, in The Maryland Historian, (Fall/Winter 1989), XX(2): 62-4