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Mark Greene
Mark Greene is director of the American Heritage Center, University
of Wyoming . The AHC is an 85,000 cubic foot manuscript repository, university
archives, and rare book library, and administers a host of programs including
Wyoming History Day. Under his direction, the AHC is nearing the end of a comprehensive
collection analysis and collecting policy revision, concomitantly implementing
one of the nation’s largest reappraisal and deaccessioning programs.
Mark also designed and implemented, in conjunction with Dennis Meissner of
the Minnesota Historical Society, a comprehensive overhaul of manuscript processing,
enabling the AHC to dramatically reduce what had been a large (but in percentage
terms average) backlog.
Prior to coming to the AHC, Mark was Head of Research Center Programs at The
Henry Ford (formerly Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village). For ten years
Mark was the curator of manuscripts acquisition at the Minnesota Historical
Society (MHS), responsible for donor relations, collection development, and
appraisal. At MHS Mark also worked closely with museum acquisition personnel,
served on the appraisal/accessioning committee for the state archives, and
installed and administered the Society’s first LAN. Mark’s first
full-time professional position (1985-89) was as archivist for Carleton College.
He received his education as an archivist from the University of Michigan,
as part of his MA in US History.
Mark has published twenty peer-reviewed articles and chapters in U.S., Canadian,
British, and Swiss archival publications, on the topics of appraisal and collection
development, business records, congressional collections, privacy in personal
papers, the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act, using university archives
as instructional material, working with under-represented communities, reappraisal
and deaccessioning, the tension between context and content in archival theory,
the relevance of postmodernism to practicing archivists, collecting and preserving
web sites. He developed taught the Midwest Archives Conference’s one-day
workshop on the Fundamentals of Archival Appraisal. Mark chaired the SAA Manuscripts
Repository Section, Congressional Papers Roundtable, and Committee on Education
and Professional Development, served on SAA Council, and was elected a Fellow.
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