Pamela Darling
Pamela Darling | |
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Born | Pamela W. Darling August 31, 1943 Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education | Northwestern University (BA) Columbia University (MLS) |
Occupation | Librarian |
Pamela W. Darling (born August 31, 1943) was an American
Overview
Pamela Darling stressed the importance of
Significance to preservation
As the preservation specialist for the
Darling also developed a method to prioritize preservation activities that she included in the manual. She created a grid containing four boxes to help determine which actions should be given the highest priority. Actions that have high impact and are easy to put into practice are put into Box 1; actions that are easy to put into practice but have little impact are put into Box 2; actions that have high impact but are hard to do are put into Box 3; and actions that are hard to do and have little impact are put into Box 4. According to Darling, the highest priority should be given to the actions in Box 1 since they have the highest impact and can be easily done. The actions in Box 3 should be accomplished because of their high impact. The actions in Box 2 and Box 4 could be eliminated since they both would have little impact.[5]
Education and career
Pamela W. Darling was born August 31, 1943, in Lake Forest, Illinois. She graduated from Northwestern University in 1965, with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and from Columbia University in 1970–71, with a Master's in Library Science. She started her career at the Library of Congress in 1971, and became an Executive Assistant in the Process Department in 1972. She was the Head of the Preservation Program Office at the New York Public Library from 1973 to 1974. From 1974 to 1980, Darling was the Head of the Preservation Department for the Columbia University Libraries. She became the Preservation Specialist for the Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies in 1981.[6]
Selected bibliography
- Darling, Pamela W. "Call To Action." Library Journal. 101.20 (15 November 1976): 2342.
- Darling, Pamela W. From Problems Perceived to Programs in Practice: The Preservation of Library Resources in the U.S.A., 1956-1980. American Library Association, 1981.
- Darling, Pamela W. "Preservation Epilogue: Signs of Hope." Library Journal.104.15(1 September 1979): 1627.
- Darling, Pamela W. "Preservation: a National Plan at Last?" Library Journal. 102.4(15 Feb. 1977): 447–449.
- Darling, Pamela W., and Duane E. Webster. Preservation Planning Program: An Assisted Self-Study Manual for Libraries. Association of Research Libraries, 1993.
- Darling, Pamela W. "Preservation: Today on a Shoestring, Tomorrow...?" Library Journal. 105.7(1 April 1980): 781–785.
- Ogden, Sherelyn. "Considerations for Prioritizing." Preservation Leaflets. 2007.
References
- ^ Darling, Pamela W. "Preservation: Today on a Shoestring, Tomorrow...? Library Journal. 105.7(1 April 1980): 783-784.
- ^ Darling, Pamela W. "Call to Action." Library Journal. 101.20(15 November 1976): 2342.
- ^ Darling, Pamela W., and Duane E. Webster. Preservation Planning Program: An Assisted Self-Study Manual for Libraries. Association of Research Libraries, 1993, v, vii, xi.
- ^ "More About the ARL Project." Abbey Newsletter. 3 Aug. 2004. <http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/an/an05/an05-1/an05-112.html> (27 May 2007)
- ^ Ogden, Sherelyn. "Considerations for Prioritizing". Northeast Document Conservation Center. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ Lee, Joel M., Editor. Who's Who in Library and Information Services. Chicago: 1972, 112.