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 Lynn Holdzkom
Lynn (Roslyn) Holdzkom received a BA in English from the University
of Washington in 1974 and completed her MLS in 1989 at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked in banking; for an ERIC clearinghouse
in linguistics and the Linguistics Society of America; and for the West Virginia
Women’s Commission, where she served as fiscal officer and editor of
Commission publications and coordinated a West Virginia Humanities Foundation-sponsored
project that made over 40 presentations on women’s issues to groups all
over the state. She was an instructor in English at the University of Constantine
in Algeria, 1974-1976.
Lynn began working in the Technical Services Section of
the Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in
January 1987 and has been there
since, except for a brief time spent as university archivist at the University
of Washington in 1997. At UNC-Chapel Hill, she started as assistant technical
services archivist, chiefly processing manuscript collections and supervising
student workers. She was instrumental in implementing MARC cataloging and Encoded
Archival Description markup of finding aids in the Department and in establishing
the Department’s web presence. She is now assistant curator, head of
technical services, and departmental cataloger. She co-presented “Archival
Cataloging as a Component of Description,” a two-day workshop offered
through the SAA, to archival and library groups across the country, 1999-2003,
and served on the SAA committee that produced Describing Archives: A Content
Standard (2004). She also teaches archival description at the School of Information
and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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