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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
As the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries (NYPL), Mr. Ferriero was part of the leadership team responsible for integrating the four research libraries and 87 branch libraries into one seamless service for users, creating the largest public library system in the United States and one of the largest research libraries in the world. Mr. Ferriero was in charge of collection strategy; conservation; digital experience; reference and research services; and education, programming, and exhibitions.
Among his responsibilities at the NYPL was the development of the library's digital strategy, which currently encompasses partnerships with Google and Microsoft, a Web site that reaches more than 25 million unique users annually, and a digital library of more than 750,000 images that may be accessed free of charge by any user around the world.
Before joining the NYPL in 2004, Mr. Ferriero served in top positions at two of the nation's major academic libraries, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and Duke University in Durham, NC. In those positions, he led major initiatives including the expansion of facilities, the adoption of digital technologies, and a reengineering of printing and publications.
Mr. Ferriero earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from Northeastern University in Boston and a master's degree from the Simmons College of Library and Information Science, also in Boston. After serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War, he started in the humanities library at MIT, where he worked for 31 years, rising to associate director for public services and acting co-director of libraries.
In 1996, Mr. Ferriero moved to Duke University, where he served as University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs until 2004. At Duke, he raised more than $50 million to expand and renovate the university's library and was responsible for instructional technology initiatives, including overseeing Duke's Center for Instructional Technology.
As Archivist of the United States, Mr. Ferriero will oversee the National Archives and Records Administration, an independent Federal agency created by statute in 1934. The National Archives safeguards and preserves the records of the U.S. Government, ensuring that the people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage. The National Archives ensures continuing access to records that document the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience.
Its 44 facilities include the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, the National Archives at College Park, 13 Presidential libraries, and 14 regional archives nationwide. The National Archives also publishes the Federal Register, administers the Information Security Oversight Office, the Office of Government Information Services, and makes grants of historical documentation through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Among the National Archives' approximately 9 billion pages of materials that are open to the public for research nationwide are millions of photographs, maps, and documents, thousands of motion pictures and audio recordings, and millions of electronic records. Every subject relating to American history is covered in the records of the National Archives: Revolutionary War pension files, landmark Supreme Court cases, international treaties, legislative records, executive orders, public laws, records relating to all U.S. Presidents and the papers of Presidents Hoover through George W. Bush.
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I would like to take a minute to thank a few of the people who now or in the past have made myrootsplace possible. Without their contributions we would not have our tree and archives.
Judy Longley (cousin-friend) - for her dedication to myrootsplace, dedication to genealogy and its correctness, and financial support.
Judy Coffey (cousin-friend) - for her diligence in working with me on the Shinn Book and History that we intended to publish but instead put online in the form of a public family tree.
Eunice Aldrich Robison - aka Coyotelady - for her unique friendship and support for both myrootsplace and myself.
James Shinn (my brother) - for his research on our Shinn line - without him handing over his research to me 15 years ago, i'd of never gotten bitten by the genealogy bug.
Marvin Marsh (1st Cousin) - Marvin traced my moms and his moms side of our family and when he passed his work was also passed to me. His dedication will never be forgotten.
Cheryl McDonald, Marylin Suter, Charles Lewis, Wayne Lewis, Frank Sloat & Cheryl (our Ducky) for their hard work and dedication to the site and archives.
I sure I've missed a few so thanks to the many other contributors and members!
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