Nichols, Margaret F

Oversee the processing of print materials for the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC), including acquisitions, cataloging, retrospective conversion, and record cleanup. Also, oversee RMC’s collection management operations, including reading room circulation, inventories, and stacks management. Serve as functional supervisor of one special collections technical services staff member, and supervise the rare book cataloging of four others; also serve as functional supervisor of one collections assistant. Serve as liaison to other libraries at Cornell on special collections cataloging issues. Serve as liaison between RMC curators and LTS. Conduct training sessions for special collections and LTS staff on special collections processing and the handling of rare materials.

- Bibliographic Standards Committee (Leader, Manuscripts Working Group), Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), American Library Association, 2007-
- Budget and Development Committee, RBMS, 2006- (Chair, 2006-2008)
- OCLC WorldCat Local Special Collections Task Force, 2008
Memberships in professional organizations: Society of American Archivists (2001- ); Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (1997- ); Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, ALA (1991- ; Chair, 2003-2004); American Library Association (1991- ); Modern Language Association (1981- )

Co-curator of the exhibition, “From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell’s James Joyce Collection,” June 9-October 12, 2005, whose online version won a Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award in 2006.

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