Barbara
Harkins joined the staff of the Office
of NIH History as Archivist in May 2008.
Previously
employed as Special Collections Librarian
and Archivist at Murray State University,
Murray, Kentucky, Ms. Harkins brings 20
years of library experience working with
special collections and archives in academic
health science collections and university
archives collections.
Previous positions
include serving as archivist and project
manager for an NEH-funded grant processing
manuscript collections using encoded archival
description at Oregon State University
and participating in the initiation of
a digital library using ContentDM along
with ten years as curatorial assistant
at the University of Alabama-Birmingham
Reynolds Historical Library. She received
her M.L.I.S from the University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee.
Her research interests include
history of medicine, archival administration,
digital archival practices including metadata
and content management as well as online
searching methods and behavior. |