L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin

L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin is Coordinator of Manuscripts Unit, Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library where she manages all aspects of accessioning, processing, preservation, description, and reference for manuscript collections. Her responsibilities also include regular bibliographic instruction for collection outreach, reference, and exhibitions. She was promoted to Associate Librarian in July 1995. From 1988 to 1990 she was Project Archivists, Special Collections responsible for all aspects of arranging describing, and exhibition for the papers of Senator John J. Williams.

Johnson Melvin holds an MILS from the University of Michigan, a Certificate for Book restoration and conservation from San Francisco State University, and a BA from Wake Forest University.

Her latest publications include “The end of an Era in Delaware: The Practical Politics of Willard Saulsbury, Jr.,” with Gregory Franseth and Shiela Pardee, In Collections, Vol. XI, and “From Victorian Scrapbooks to Blogs: a Librarian Encounters Lives Revealed,” The magazine of the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, Vol. 3, no. 1.