Thomas J. Wood




Home Address:         1116 S. MacArthur Boulevard     Springfield IL 62704     (217) 528-8595

Work Address:     Archives/Special Collections LIB 144     University of Illinois at Springfield     One University Plaza, MS BRK 140     Springfield IL 62703-5407

 
Experience:

1986-present University of Illinois at Springfield* Springfield, IL

Archivist/Head, Special Collections
 

• Directed operation of UIS Archives/Special Collections
• Supervised operation of Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD).
• Implemented records management procedures for the university
• Compiled and published guides to significant collections
• Directed digitization projects; created digital collections
• Hired, trained and supervised student staff
• Converted finding aids to electronic forms
• Created web pages with guides to collections
• Co-taught graduate-level Archives Management class


*formerly Sangamon State University (to 1995).

1985-86 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL

Acting Assistant University Archivist
 

• Assisted in direction of a large University Archives
• Trained and supervised civil service and student staff
• Provided reference assistance for a wide variety of patrons
• Prepared exhibits
• Created records retention schedules


1984-85 Indiana Commission on Public Records Indianapolis, IN

Records Analyst IV, Archives Division
 

• Provided reference service for a wide variety of patrons.
• Appraised, processed, arranged and described archives collections
• Compiled administrative histories of state agencies
• Prepared archives exhibits


Education:

1981-83 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
 

• M.A., History (19^th Century American concentration).
• Teaching Assistantship


1980-81 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
 

• M.S., Library and Information Science.
• Josie Houchins Fellowship
• American Association of Law Librarians Assistantship


1976-79 Millikin University Decatur, IL
 

• B.A., History (British History concentration).James Millikin Scholar
• James T. Mills History Award
• Co-Editor, Literary Magazine
• Summa Cum Laude


Professional Activities:
 

• Member, Society of American Archivists
• Member, Midwest Archives Conference
• Member, Illinois Historical Society
• Board Member, Sangamon County Historical Society
• Board Member, Sangamon County Genealogical Society
• Board Member, Archivist, James Jones Literary Society

December, 2006: attended ALCTS/Library of Congress Workshop, "Digital Project Management Basics."

October, 2006: appeared in panel "Organizing and Digitizing Local History Collections," Illinois Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

July, 2006: attended CARLI workshop, "It Could Happen to You: Disaster Planning for Libraries and Archives," Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL.

April, 2006: attended CONTENTdm training session at CARLI headqurters, Champaign, IL.

2005: assisted with the review of LSTA digitization grants submitted to Illinois State Library.

2003-04: wrote and directed Library Services and Technologies Act digitization grant from the Illinois State Library, to scan the UIS Archives' collection of oral history memoirs.

2001-03: reviewed grant applications in support of archival/oral history projects for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

2001-2006: editor of James Jones Literary Society Newsletter.

January 1998: gave presentation on genealogical resources in Federal and Illinois State documents at meeting of the Sangamon County Genealogical Society.

November 1997: delivered paper "’This ain’t jawbone, this is for record’: James Jones’s Book Report on the Red Badge of Courage," James Jones Literary Society Symposium, Springfield, Illinois.

November, 1996: chaired panel, "New Research on James Jones from the Handy Writers’ Colony Collection," James Jones Literary Society Symposium, Springfield, Illinois.

December, 1995: delivered paper "’Not Following in the Groove’: the Handy Writers’ Colony and Its Archives," at the Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, IL.

1991-1998: prepared exhibits for the annual symposia of the James Jones Literary Society, Robinson, IL and Springfield, IL.

June 1994 and July 1995: made presentations on local government records for the Genealogical Institute of Mid-America, Sangamon State University, Springfield IL.

May 1992: participated in panel on archival uses of database software at the Midwest Archives Conference meeting in Chicago.

November, 1991: planned and wrote grant proposal for first symposium of the James Jones Literary Society, Robinson, IL.

May 1991: appeared in panel on rural archives at the Midwest Archives Conference meeting in Chicago.

April 1988: conducted archives workshop for members of the Sangamon Valley Academic Libraries Consortium.
 

Publications and Web Pages:

Article, "Small Towns as Political Centers." The American Midwest : an interpretive encyclopedia. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2007.

With Dana Prusaski: created website, Souvenir of Springfield, 1890, 2006

With Dana Prusaski: created website, Polk's Springfield City Directory, 1902, 2005 (scanned entire directory as searchable PDFs).

Contributed James Jones bibliography to the Infography website, 2004: http://www.infography.com/content/346376224116.html

Created website, Lost Springfield: Photographs from Illinois Capital Illustrated, 1898, 2002.

Revised and updated the Guide to the Oral History Collection of the University of Illinois at Springfield as a web publication, 1999:. http://www.uis.edu/archives/contents.htm

"James Jones Papers in the Handy Colony Collection at the University of Illinois at Springfield." Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1998, pp. 189-194. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 1999.

"’Not Following in the Groove’: Lowney Handy, James Jones, and the Handy Writers’ Colony." Illinois Historical Journal 90, 2 (Summer 1997): 82-96.

With Paula Cross, Melissa Bittinger, and Robert Mazrim: Prehistoric and Historic Occupation of Fork Prairie. Kampsville, IL: Center for American Archeology, 1997.

With Robert Mazrim: "Historical Context for the Highway 29 Project: Including Further Examination of Initial Euro-American Settlement Patterns and Upland Transportation Routes in Central Illinois." Athens, IL: Sangamo Research Services, 1996.

With Karen E. Schnell and Linda Tatman: Guide to the Oral History Collection of the University of Illinois at Springfield. Springfield: The University, 1996. 

Book Review: Special Collections, Procedures and Guidelines (A Model Plan for the Management of Special Legal Collections), Christopher Anglim, in Technicalities 13, 8 (August 1993): 12.

" ‘Blood in the Moon’: The War for the Seat of Edwards County, 1821-24," Illinois Historical Journal 85, 3 (Autumn 1992): 143-160.

With Meredith Keating: James Jones in Illinois: A Guide to the Handy Writers’ Colony Collection in the Sangamon State University Library Archives. Springfield: Illinois Issues, 1989.

"Archives and Manuscript Collections at Sangamon State University." Illinois Libraries 69, 8 (October 1987), 597-98.

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