Mary Morganti Takes Off
Supervising Archivist Mary Morganti announced her resignation from The Bancroft Library to accept a position as Director of Research Collections at the California Historical Society (CHS) in San Francisco. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mary, but at the same time leaves Bancroft with the very difficult task of replacing her. She has been at Bancroft since 1990, both processing and managing the processing of hundreds of manuscript and archival collections. Morganti played a key role in the reorganization of Bancroft Technical Services and has been intimately involved in helping Bancroft to move into the electronic age by designing the templates for Bancroft finding aids both before and after the development of the Encoded Archival Description. She has helped to plan and carry out grant-funded projects both in Bancroft and elsewhere on campus. She supervised the creation of catalog records for manuscript and archival collections; and supervised at any one time ten to fifteen staff members, interns, and students in these activities.
After receiving her B.A. from California State College, Sonoma, and her Masters Degree in Library Science from UC Berkeley, Mary worked for two years as a manuscripts librarian at, appropriately, the California Historical Society. She has also held archival positions at the Social Welfare History Archives (University of Minnesota), Utah International, Inc., a mining and construction company, Wells Fargo Bank, and the California Nurses Association, all three of the latter in San Francisco. We shall miss Mary, and we wish her well in her new position.
Volume 20
Spring 2002
Table of Contents
From the Director: Bancroft's New Building?
Students Examine Original Documents
Edward P. and Elliot Reed Letters
