Hi All, My dean, Paul Constantine, asked me about whether I'd be interested in something about this briefly but that's the last I heard of it. I did not apply for this directly--though I'm glad it's happening--so I have no idea about the details. I'm guessing that since it lists labor collections, I'll be working closely with the person, however!
Best, Conor
Conor M. Casey
http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/ MA, MLIS, CA
http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/
Labor Archivist
Labor Archives *of* Washington, University *of* Washington Libraries Special Collections
*http://laborarchives.org http://laborarchives.org/*
Mail: Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98133-2900 Allen Library South, Basement/B81D 206.685.3976 mobile 415.728.1819 fax 206.543.1931
http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Monika Sengul-Jones <jones.monika@gmail.com
wrote:
I'd bet that Conor Casey is the contact for this since he is the Labor Archivist librarian in special collections, which is the focus for the unpaid Visiting Scholar position at UW.
Monika
Sent from my mobile phone possibly using voice control, please pardon errors
On Jul 14, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lane, I wasn't aware that this position was planned at all. We have contacts at the UW libraries and at Wiki Ed but they seem to have planned this without us being in the loop. That said, I'm glad that UW and Wiki
Ed
arranged for this position. Pinging Jake and Sage to see of they will let us know the contact people for this position at UW and Wiki Ed, off-list
if
necessary.
Thanks, Pine
On Jul 14, 2015 7:50 AM, "Lane Rasberry" lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Note the UW position- do we know this contact?
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