Library Associates Wolford and MacDonald join the Special Collections Research Center

We are very pleased to announce that this fall semester two new Library Associates, Taylor Wolford and Phillip MacDonald, have joined the Special Collections Research Center.

The Library Associates program provides graduate students with valuable experience in a leading research library, working closely with librarians on significant special collections projects. Library Associates will examine patterns of documentation, produce finding aids, perform archival processing, and be introduced to issues relating to digital collections and other current topics in the field. 

Taylor Wolford has recently begun graduate studies in the Public History and Library Science Archival Program, a joint program through NC State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has been a Special Collections Archival Processing Intern at the New Hanover County Public Library where she conducted extensive research on World War I history and oral stories in order to process a collection based on the life of a military veteran. As a student intern in the NCSU Libraries, Wolford gained experience in archival processing, preservation, and finding-aid development. She also assisted with research inquiries and public outreach events. Currently, Wolford has an Archival Processing and Outreach Internship at the Outer Banks History Center.

Wolford earned the Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from NC State University, with minors in Psychology and Classical Studies. 

Phillip MacDonald is in the Master of Science in Library Science program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has experience in the arrangement and description of collections and in digital preservation. He is currently assisting with the digital preservation of the Frank Clyde Brown Collection at Duke University Libraries. From the 1920s through the 1940s, Frank Clyde Brown, an English professor at Duke University, amassed one of the largest collections of field recordings native to North Carolina. MacDonald is digitizing and restoring the recordings and examining primary documents within the Frank Clyde Brown collection such as letters, photographs, and receipts for an eventual exhibit.  

MacDonald earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in History, cum laude, from NC State University.