New Maintenance Culture Project Director
We are excited to announce Elena Cordova is joining Myriad as the new Project Director for Maintenance Culture!
Maintenance Culture’s previous Project Director, Annie Peterson, is leaving Myriad for a position as Head of Preservation and Conservation Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Annie will remain in the Project Director role through the end of 2022, and Elena will start in January 2023.
We’re doing our best to make this transition with minimal disruption for everyone involved in Maintenance Culture. Elena, Annie, and Frances are working together to transfer knowledge, and everything in progress is very well documented. We anticipate it will be a smooth change.
About Elena
Elena (she/her) has an extensive background in institutional libraries and archives, with particular specializations in museum-based collections, fine arts materials, historical manuscripts, and material culture. She has worked previously at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She also worked as a Preservation Specialist at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, and as a freelance archival consultant providing services to a wide range of state, regional and local institutions based throughout New England, as well as private clients. She holds a Master’s Degree in Design History and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center, as well as a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the Pratt Institute.
Elena Cordova, new Maintenance Culture Project Director
Maintenance Culture has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
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