Brenneman (IUPUI DLIS ‘17) attended the 2017 SIA fall workshop and LIS Colloquium: Fostering Archival Connections on campus (https://blogs.iu.edu/dlis/2017/10/10/lis-colloquium-fostering-archival-connections/). Last year she assumed management of the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum archive. Congratulations, Kelley!
On her path to her archives position:
“I started out at Manchester College, now Manchester University as a History Education major. About 4 weeks before student teaching, I decided I couldn’t be a teacher. I ended up graduating with a history degree. Through my connection with the Manchester archivist, I was able to get a yearlong internship in Elgin, Illinois, through my church denomination, the Church of the Brethren. As my time there was wrapping up, I was asked to stay on another 6 months to process a 25 year old collection that had never been touched. When that was winding up, I saw on the Manchester job board an archival fellowship at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum for a digitization project. I kept getting my contract extended at the museum, and when my boss left, I was promoted into his position. I also completed my MLS this August from IUPUI.”
Recent projects:
“In May, we completed our digitization project 6 months early. This project was primarily photographs and employee papers. We get a lot of requests for people wanting to purchase items, so getting everything digitized and out there has been a huge help. We have all the exciting things in the archives digitized, now we are working on the brochures and ads from the car companies.”
Full interview in Society of Indiana Archivists Fall 2017 newsletter: https://societyofindianaarchivists.wildapricot.org/newsletter
Check out the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum and the Virtual Exhibits created with
archival material. http://www.automobilemuseum.org/virtual-exhibit/index.htm
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