Archivist Lisa Vallen has joined the UC Merced Library to work with UC Cooperative Extension Offices in Merced, Ventura, and Humboldt to assess, preserve, and provide access to these records and materials.
Lisa has her Masters of Science in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a certificate in special collections. While at the University of Illinois, Lisa helped preserve their physical collection, digitized theses and dissertations, and processed part of the H.G. Wells Collection. She has her BA in art history and politics from Lake Forest College. Lisa spent the summer of 2015 studying French Museology at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris.
Lisa is a co-creater of the Mushiboshi Project, where they are researching ethnographic preservation practices and looking at how libraries can apply these low tech options to their own stewardship and promote their use to the general public.
