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James Roth
James Roth is Head of the Archival Processing Unit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Part of his duties include overseeing the arrangement and description of collections, including the reduction of the backlog of unprocessed collections; the editing and conversion of oral history transcripts; and managing the scanning and creation of metadata for digital collections. He received a BA in History from Johnson State College in 1995, completed a MA in American History from the University of New Hampshire in 1999, and an MSLS, specializing in Archives, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000.
He has published articles, given presentations, and taught classes and workshops. He is a past recipient of the Theodore Calvin Pease Award (2001), and has published articles in American Archivist, Prologue, and The Hemingway Review. James has covered the fundamentals of a wide range of archival activities including appraisal, acquisitions, arrangement, description, reference, and access. As an Adjunct Faculty member at Simmons College (2007), he taught LIS 438-Introduction to Archival Methods and Services. He has taught basic archives workshops for New England Archivists (2006) and the New Hampshire Archives Group (2005).
James has served SAA in a variety of capacities as member, then chair (2005), of the Colonial Dames of America and Donna Cutts Scholarship Committee (2003-2005); Key Contact for Eastern Massachusetts (2003-2005) and District 1 Representative for the Membership Committee (2005-2007); Vice Chair/Chair of the Membership Committee (2007-2009); Vice Chair/Chair of the Description Section (2007-2008); and has served on the Dues Increase Communications Plan Task Force (2007-2008). He also is involved with the New England Archivists, and is currently a member of the Education Committee (2001-2007).
When he is not singing and dancing on tables to amuse his colleagues and interns at work, James loves spending all his free time with his two daughters and wife, going to the park, singing lullabies, hoping against hope that the kids will go down at a reasonable hour.
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