Center welcomes new archivist
The 糖心Vlog传媒LR Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) is pleased to welcome Garret Kremer-Wright as the new Research and Scholarly Communications Archivist. A certified archivist, Kremer-Wright, whose background is in Historic Preservation and Public History, joined CAHC in mid-November 2015.
“I enjoy the Civil War and researching genealogy. I have cursory interest in environmental and business history as well,” offers Kremer-Wright. Several subjects which fall well within the collecting policy of the Center.
Additionally, Kremer-Wright will be the lead archivist for arranging and describing the . The Tucker collection spans over 700 cubic feet and the processing of which is funded in part by a grant from the (NHPRC).
“I’m looking forward to learning about the collections at the CAHC, especially Jim Guy Tucker,” says Kremer-Wright, “Also, I look forward to increasing public awareness of the collections housed at the Center and alerting researchers to new avenues of research that are available in our holdings.”
Says Kremer-Wright, “two things I enjoy about being an archivist is processing collections and assisting researchers with finding information. The satisfaction I get from providing order to an individual鈥檚 papers and having a researcher leave happy, confirms that I have chosen the right profession.”