Archivist Rodney Obien Joins Mason Library Faculty

From Irene Herold, Mason Library:

Rodney Obien will be joining Mason Library’s faculty as the archivist starting July 1, 2009. He comes from nine years as the curator of special collections and archives at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, is the membership secretary for New England Archivists, and lives in a 200-year-old farmhouse in Canterbury, New Hampshire. His publications include co-editor of the book History of Woodbury & Company (2007) and co-editor of Illustrating Dickens: Selected Works from the Robert D. Fellman Collection (2002), an exhibit catalogue. His recent presentations include “Meet Theo: Theo Brown Diaries Digitization Project” at the Mid-Atlantic Digital Libraries Conference in 2008. He was the curator for the exhibition Visions of Valencia: Photographic Works of Andres Minguez Lujan in 2008. He earned his MLS from Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., did additional graduate work at SUNY Buffalo in art history, and earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Virginia Wesleyan College.