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Shan Sutton

Shan SuttonShan Sutton

Head of Special Collections,
University of Pacific Library,
Stockton, California

Phone: 209-946-2945

email: ssutton@pacific.edu

 

Biography:

Shan Sutton is many things, including: music aficionado (an affliction honed on tour with the Grateful Dead), sports fan (especially Arizona basketball, Cincinnati Reds baseball, and Arsenal football), disc gold player (aka frisbee golf), microbrew enthusiast (Nimbus supporter), and vegan freak.  Married, wih cats.

Degree info, work experience:

Shan Sutton is Head of Special Collections at University of the Pacific Libraryin Stockton, California.  He previously served as an archivist in Special Collections at the University of Arizona Library, senior archivist at the New Mexico State Archives, and librarian at the New Mexico State Library.  Sutton has a master's degree in library science from the University of Arizona, and a master's degree in humanities from Wright State University.

Class teaching:

Introduction to Archives

Research Interest:

Current interests include the integration of archival research into undergraduate curricula, and the role of digitization in expanding access to archival collections.

Publications:

  • "Digitizing California History: Issues of Selection and Description." Microform & Imaging Review.  Accepted for publication in 2008.
  • "Staffing the Dream Archive: A View from the Other Side of the Reading Room Desk." College & Research Libraries News, October 2007.
  • "Archival Perspectives on Jazz History: The Brubeck Collection and Paul Desmond Papers." Jazz Education Journal, October 2006.
  • "Beyond the Reading Room: Integrating Primary and Secondary Sources in the Library Classroom." Co-authored with Lorrie Knight. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2006.  This article was selected by the ALA Library Instruction Roundtable as one of the top 20 library instruction articles of 2006.
  • "Bringing the Borderlands to the Web: The Arizona-Sonora Documents Online Project." The Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2005.
  • "Navigating the Point of No Return: Organizational Implications of Digitization in Special Collections." Portal: Libraries and the Academy, April 2004.
  • "Notorius as the Noonday Sun: Alexander Welch Reynolds and the New Mexico Territory, 1849-1859." Co-authored with Weymouth T. Jordan and John D. Chapla.  New Mexico Historical Review, October 2000.
  • "The Deadhead Community: Popular Religion in Contemporary American Culture." Chapter in the book Deadhead Social Science: You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Want to Know. Edited by Rebecca G. Adams and Robert Sardiello.  Altamira Press, 2000. The chapter is an abridged version of my Master of Humanities thesis.

Presentations:

  • "Making the Connections: Integrating Primary Source Materials into Mainstream Library Instruction," Co-presenter with Lorrie Knight. LOEX (Library Orientaion Exchange) Annual Conference, 2005.
  • "How Low Should You Go?: Descriptive Practices in Digitization," Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists Annual Meeting, 2004.
  • "The Arizona-Sonora Documents Online Project," Invited public lecture at El Colegio de Sonora (College of Sonora), Hermosillo, Mexico, 2003.
  • "Encodes Well with Others: The Essentials of EAD Collaboration," Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Conference, 2002.
  • "Planning Collaborative EAD Projects: Two Models from the Southwest," Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists Annual Meeting, 2001.
  • "Planning EAD? Think Collaboratively!" poster session, Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference, 2001.
  • "Online Access to Archival Collections at the New Mexico State Archives," New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference, 2000.
  • "Uncle Sam's Profiteers: Economic Rackets Operated by U.S. Army Soldiers in Santa Fe, 1849-1851," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, 2000.
  • "Opening the Vaults Wider: Expanding Electronic Access to New Mexico's Archives," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, 1999.
  • "Opening the Vaults: The NEH Archival Cataloging Project in Santa Fe," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, 1997.