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Meet
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Member
May 2007
Kevin
Cherry
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 Kevin
Cherry is an instructor in the College of Education's Department of
Library Science and Instructional Technology (LSIT) at East Carolina
University. He teaches a variety of courses, including Foundations
of Library Science, History of Books and Libraries, Seminar in Public
Libraries, and a special topics research Seminar. A number of his
students in the special topics course explore special collections
issues, especially digitization of cultural heritage materials.
Kevin is a member of Joyner Library's Digital Editorial Board at ECU
and the chair of the Advisory Board of North Carolina ECHO (Exploring
Cultural Heritage Online). He is the former Consultant for Special
Collections at the State Library of North Carolina where he was also
the first project manager of NC ECHO. Before working at the State
Library, he was the local history librarian at Rowan Public Library
in Salisbury, NC, and served on the Legislative Research Commission
on the Digitization of State Records. He is a member of the Historical
Society of North Carolina, chair of the Advisory Board of the Federation
of North Carolina Historical Societies, and a former chair of the
Friends of the Archives. He also serves on the Executive Board of
the North Carolina Library Association and is on the Council of the
American Library Association. His research interests include the use
of online cultural heritage materials by the schools and the use of these materials to enhance cultural heritage tourism.
Kevin grew up on a tomato farm in Denver, NC, and attended the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a B.S. in Biology, an
M.A. in History, and an M.S.L.S.,concentrating in archives and cultural
heritage materials. He is currently a PhD student in the School of
Information and Library Science at UNC-CH.
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