Short Paper Presenters Biographies

Krystal Appiah

Krystal Appiah is a second-year MLIS student specializing in Archival Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has interned at the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, and the Department of Special Collections at UCLA. Her research interests include archival literacy and increasing the use of archives by the public through exhibitions and programming.

Sheelagh Bevan

Sheelagh Bevan is the Assistant Librarian for Reference at the Museum of Modern Art Library. In May 2008, she received her MLIS with a concentration in rare books and special collections from the Palmer School for Library & Information Science. She has a Master's degree with a focus on early modern print culture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in English Literature from Columbia University. As a graduate student, she worked part-time as a rare book cataloger at Biddle Law Library, and later interned in the Department of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library. In 2009, she will be curating an exhibition on the Eluard-Dausse Collection at MoMA Library.

William Hansen

Will Hansen is Assistant Curator of Collections at Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. He received his M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2007 and worked at the Newberry Library from 2003 to 2007.

Jillian Hinchliffe

Jillian Hinchliffe has served as the Curator of Puzzles at Indiana University’s Lilly Library since 2007. She earned her master’s degree from Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, where she specialized in Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship.

Michelle Mascaro

Michelle Mascaro is the Special Collections Cataloger at The University of Akron. Before joining the special collections profession, she worked as a cataloger at Utah State University from Aug. 2004-Aug. 2008. She holds a MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2004) and a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Michigan State University (2002).

Allison Jai O'Dell

Allison Jai O'Dell is finishing her M.L.S. degree in 2009. She currently holds the position as cataloging librarian for The Carmelitana Collection, a specialized library on Carmelite studies in Washington, D.C. Allison fell into the field of rare books librarianship while looking for a career that would make use of the seemingly inapplicable skill of reading Greek and Latin. She is excited about the ways that her previous training in art historical methodology can be applied to codicological studies and book history.

Cristine N. Paschild

Cristine Noriko Paschild is the head of special collections and university archivist at Portland State University. Prior to joining Portland State, she spent seven years at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, most recently as the director of collections management and access. Cris holds a master's degree in English and in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr.

Michael J. Paulus, Jr., is head of the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, the archives and special collections division of the Penrose Library at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Previously, Paulus was a special collections librarian at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include the roles of libraries and archives in academia and the intersection of book history and American religious history. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Rutgers University.

Gregory J. Prickman

Gregory J. Prickman is Assistant Head, Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries. He received his MLS in 1998 from Indiana University and has worked as a rare book librarian and archivist at several Midwestern institutions. He is interested in the ways in which technology can assist and enhance book history, and provide new means of visualizing bibliographic data.