Whitney Pape

Whitney Pape is the NEH Preservation Librarian at Brown University, managing the preservation programs for general and special collections, as well as the NEH Preservation Endowment to preserve humanities collections at Brown. She received her MLIS and Endorsement of Specialization in Preservation Administration from the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and previously served as the Special Collections and Preservation Librarian at Oberlin College Library. She has co-chaired the Preservation Administration and the Preservation and Reformatting Section Discussion Groups and Chaired the Books and Paper: Methods, Materials, Standards Committee for the Preservation and Reformatting Section of ALA. Her article "Funding for Library Preservation: Endowments as Income Streams," co-authored with Eric C. Shoaf, was published in Advances in Librarianship in 2004. She is currently teaching the course "Introduction to the Preservation of Library Materials" for the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.