Dr. David B. Gracy II

Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise

Positions Held--Administrative

School of Information (formerly Graduate School of Library and Information Science), University of Texas at Austin

The Center for the Cultural Record, Director, 2000-2004

• Launched and guided the first inter-field center established by the School. Fields included in the Center were: Archival and Records Enterprise, Preservation and Conservation Studies, and Museum Studies.


• Duties included: Directing Preservation and Conservation Studies Program, developing the Museum Studies concentration, stimulating and facilitating inter-field research projects, and fund raising.

Principal Investigator, Russian History Online, Carnegie Corporation of New York

• Grant, 2003, to create a history course on the Nikita Khrushchev administration, built around image resources of the Krasnogorsk Russian State Film and Photograph Archives.

Preservation and Conservation Studies, Interim Director, 1999-2000

• Responsible for administration of this program, one of five study tracks of the School, jointly funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University with an annual budget of approximately $450,000, and comprised of four faculty members, one administrative staff position, and approximately 30 students.


• Duties included: Overseeing the budget, supervising the administrative staff, coordinating planning for program direction and future grant requests, managing relations with both the profession at large and the program’s advisory bodies.

Associate Dean, 1991-1995

• Responsible for assisting dean in administration of this School of up to 500 students, 18 full-time faculty, nearly a dozen FTE adjunct faculty, and nearly 20 FTE support staff, with an annual budget of more than $1.5 million.


• Duties included: Scheduling classes, supervising the office staff and the Media and Information Processing laboratories, coordinating development activities, and assisting the dean in managing the affairs of the School.

Texas State Archives

Director, 1977-1986

• Responsible for administration of the division of the Texas State Library charged to gather, preserve, and make available the permanently valuable records of state government, as well as personal papers and institutional records that are a vital part of Texas' documentary heritage.


• Duties included: supervision of staff of up to 30 employees, interpretation of division programs to the public, administration of budget in excess of $450,000, advising governmental and private entities throughout the state on establishment and maintenance of archival programs.

Southern Labor Archives and University Archives, University Library, Georgia State University

Archivist, 1971-1977

• Established two archival programs: the University Archives for maintenance of university records, and the Southern Labor Archives as a center for research on organized labor throughout the South.


• Duties included: recruiting, training, and supervising staff of 9, establishing all procedures, promoting the archival program within the university and to units of organized labor from Virginia to Mississippi, travel gathering material for the Southern Labor Archives. Given special Distinguished Service Award from the Organized Labor and Workmen's Circle of Atlanta.

Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University

Archivist, 1966-1971

• Directed program for administration of university records and collecting, preserving, and making available personal papers and records of organizations from throughout West Texas and Eastern New Mexico.


• Duties included: directing staff of 6-12 employees, travel collecting materials for the archives, developing procedures manual, overseeing day-to-day operation of the archives staff.

University Archives, The University of Texas [Austin]

Library Assistant, 1961-1963

• Arranged and described holdings, assisted patrons in research room.

Texas State Archives

Archival Assistant, 1959

• Arranged and described holdings, assisted patrons in research room, and assisted in editing volume III of The Indian Papers of Texas.

Positions Held--Editorial

Libraries & the Cultural Record (formerly Libraries & Culture)

Editor, 2005-

• Responsible for editing and publishing the 40-year-old journal that began as the Journal of Library History, then changed its name to Libraries & Culture as it broadened its scope from library history alone to the history of libraries within their broader societal environment. Initiated and accomplished changing the name to Libraries & the Cultural Record to reflect a yet broader focus on the historical relationships of the fields of libraries and librarianship, archival and records enterprise, preservation administration and conservation of library and archival materials, and museums and museum administration coalescing into the Information domain.


• Duties include: Selecting all content for the journal, supervising a half-time Managing Editor, part time graduate assistant, and volunteer assistants, working with two boards to enhance the academic and informational contribution of the journal, and developing a marketing campaign to introduce the new focus of the journal.

Georgia Archive (subsequently Provenance)

Founding Editor, 1972-1976

• Established, edited, and designed and managed publication of this, the second journal serving the archival profession in the United States. Georgia Archive received an Award of Merit from the Society of American Archivists, 1975.

Texas State Historical Association

Editorial and research staff, 1963-1966

• Served as Editorial Assistant on the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and as Associate Editor of The Junior Historian; conducted research on entries for the Handbook of Texas.

Studies in History (Student Publication, Department of History, Texas Tech University)

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Volume 1, 1971

• Created and designed this journal, solicited and edited content, and oversaw publication. The principal purpose of the journal was to give History graduate students experience in publishing scholarly articles.

Texas Military History (Quarterly of the National Guard Association of Texas)

Editorial Assistant, 1963

• Responsible for editing and proofing all contents of the publication. When editorial funds were cut, I was promoted to the editorial board.

Grants

Principal Investigator

• Carnegie Foundation of New York grant in support of Russian History Online, a project to produce a course on the Khrushchev Period of Soviet History, rich in moving image material, mounted on the web, for delivery in Russia, 2003-

Projector Administrator

• National Endowment for the Humanities grants in support of the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-

Honorarium and expenses for research and writing of book Moses Austin: His Life, Beretta Foundation of San Antonio, TX, 1978-1982.

Project Administrator (Initial)

• National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant to Society of Georgia Archivists, 1976-1977, to produce a slide/tape presentation on the importance of archives to the citizens of Georgia.

Project Administrator

• Rockefeller Foundation grant to Southern Labor Archives, 1976, to establish an annual meeting--the Southern Labor History Conference--of persons interested in the history and present of organized labor in the South.

Fellowship from American Association for State and Local History and National Endowment for the Humanities, 1975, to attend Seminar on Historical Publications.

Research grant

• Georgia State University Foundation, 1971, to complete work on article, "Selling the Future: A Biography of William Pulver Soash."

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