Katy Rawdon recently joined the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University Libraries as Coordinator of Technical Services. She will oversee accessioning, cataloging and finding aids for new and existing SCRC collections.

Katy joins Temple from the Barnes Foundation, where she worked as the Director of Archives, Libraries and Special Collections for more than ten years. Katy’s presentations and publications include “‘Art is no trivial matter:’ The Barnes Foundation Archives and Library,” (Art Libraries Journal, 33 no. 1, 2008) and  “Dr. W. C. Williams and Dr. Albert Barnes: A Correspondence and an Archive”  (panel presentation, the Modern Language Association Annual Conference, 2009).

She received her Masters in Library Science with an Archives Management Concentration from Simmons College and a BA in Art History and Women’s Studies from Smith College.