Senior Curator
National Public Broadcasting Archives
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
USA
Thomas Connors will be presenting a keynote on The Policy and Politics of Government Information in the George W. Bush Era: A Citizen-Archivist’s Perspective on Wednesday.
Before joining the University of Maryland, Thomas Connors was a consulting archivist for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and served as assistant archivist at the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. He has also worked at Yale University and the University of Vermont in Burlington, northeast U.S.
He has published articles on labour union archives in the U.S., archival appraisal of audiovisual materials, and information policies in American government. He has also presented papers on these subjects at professional gatherings of archivists and records managers. Most recently he addressed the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Washington D.C., on selection for reformatting.
Connors holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and a Masters degree in American Civilization from the Ivy League Brown University <www.brown.edu/>, in the New England city of Providence, Rhode Island. He is an adjunct professor in the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies where he teaches a course on Visual and Sound Materials.
The Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland comprises two major collections documenting the history of broadcasting in the United States: the National Public Broadcasting Archives and the Library of American Broadcasting.
Connors served on the national Council of the Society of American Archivists from 2000 to 2003. He is a founder and co-chair of SAA’s International Archival Affairs Roundtable. In 2006 he was named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists. He is also active in the International Council on Archives (ICA), currently serving on its Executive Board and Management Commission and as coordinator of ICA’s North American branch.
Thomas Connors
Senior Curator
National Public Broadcasting Archives
Third Floor, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland
College Park
MD 20742
USA
Telephone: +1 (301) 405 9160
