 |
 Elizabeth
W. Adkins, CA
Elizabeth Adkins is the Director of Global Information Management
(GIM) at Ford Motor Company. In this role, she is leading a company-wide effort
to consolidate the management of records and information, audiovisual assets,
and archives services within GIM. The vision is a Ford culture in which information
assets are shared, fully organized, integrated and accessible.
- In 2006-2007, Elizabeth
serves as President of the Society of American Archivists.
Elizabeth began her
career as a corporate archivist in 1981, when she was hired to organize and
catalog the records of the chairman of Laird Norton Company,
a Seattle-based company with interests in real estate and the forest products
industry. After completing that project, she established a Laird Norton corporate
archives program. In 1986, she left Seattle to become Archives Specialist
at Kraft Foods, and was promoted to Archives Manager at Kraft in 1987.
Ford
Motor Company recruited Elizabeth to fill the position of Manager of Archives
Services in December 1996. She revived a dormant company archives
and transformed it into an organization serving the company's business needs.
She forged alliances inside and outside of the company, including a working
partnership with the Benson Ford Research Center at The Henry Ford (formerly
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village), the outside repository that houses
early Ford records. These initiatives have resulted in collaborative processes
to protect, manage and leverage Ford's information assets.
Elizabeth holds a
B.A. in history from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an
M.A. in history from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. She has taken an active role in the leadership of the Society
of American Archivists (SAA), North America's largest and oldest national
archival professional association, including serving as treasurer from 2000
through
2003, and is the former chair of the SAA Business Archives Section. She is
a past president of the Academy of Certified Archivists, and serves on the
Steering Committee of the Section on Business and Labour Archives of the
International Council on Archives. In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of the
Society of American
Archivists. This permanent distinction is the highest honor that SAA can
bestow on its individual members and is awarded for outstanding contributions
to the
archival profession.
|
|
