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News about
the Sutliff Museum and Warren Library Association
Jennifer Sweet accepts Sutliff Museum Assistant Curator position
August 1, 2008
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Jennifer Sweet, of
Warren, has accepted the position of Assistant Curator at the Sutliff
Museum. Miss Sweet’s major focus will be on continuing the museum’s
Collections Management Program, which is building a computer database
of museum holdings. Every item in the museum’s collection must be
accessioned, cataloged, photographed, labeled and described. When all
the holdings have been entered into the database, scholars and
researchers from around the world will have access to them through the
Internet.
A graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Sweet’s Bachelor of
Arts degree is in history and anthropology. Her master’s degree from
Duquesne University, is in history with a concentration in archive,
museum and editing studies. She has done four internships in museums,
working first with the Collections Manager at the
Western Reserve
Historical Society in Cleveland to inventory and catalog the musical
instrument collection. In Pittsburgh's
Heinz History Center, she
worked in the library and archives. There she researched, arranged and
described an archival collection. At the
Carnegie Museum of Natural
History, also in Pittsburgh, she worked in the Anthropology Department
where she arranged, described, photographed and cataloged some of
their collection. Sweet’s most recent internship was at the
Lake
County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois, where she worked at the
front desk and processed memberships using the computer program
Raiser’s Edge.
“Jennifer’s experience in museums and her academic background make her
an ideal candidate for this job,” Sally Thomas, Curator, said. “I look
forward to having her expertise at work on the huge task of
establishing our collection of historic and personal documents from
the Underground Railroad days.”Operated
by the Warren Library Association, the Sutliff Museum is a memorial to
Levi and Phebe Marvin Sutliff and is the repository of hundreds of
letters, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets and other print materials
relating to the Abolition Movement, the Anti-Slavery Society and life
in Victorian times. These materials have been preserved but not made
accessible because of their fragility. When they are a part of the
database, they will be available to interested researchers with no
danger to their safekeeping, according to Mrs. Thomas. “Jennifer Sweet
will make that happen,” she said.
To contact Jennifer Sweet,
phone 330-399-8807, ext. 121, or e-mail
Jennifer.Sweet@sutliffmuseum.org.
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