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Sean Quimby
Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania
It is an honor to run for re-election as the membership representative for Very Large institutions on the ArchivesSpace Governance Board. My first term spanned appointments at Columbia, where I served as Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the University of Pennsylvania, where I am now Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the Kislak Center. During my time on the board both universities adopted ArchivesSpace at the campus level, bringing together often very different repositories and approaches to accessioning, collection description, and metadata maintenance. I have been fortunate in both instances to work with very talented archivists on the logistics of implementation while I work to facilitate their efforts at the administrative level. This is precisely the role of a governance board member: not to fix bugs or set development priorities, but to ensure that the ArchivesSpace has clear strategic priorities, is in good financial health, and that the entire AS community is heard.
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