It seems like I’m always glancing backwards…in time.
Hello, I’m Lisa Pasquinelli Rickey, MA, MLIS, CA.
I started this blog as part of a scripting course for my MLIS degree and decided to keep it as a place to blog about professional things. My professional interests include archives and manuscripts, libraries and library science, local history, genealogy, preservation, digitization, history, public history, oral history, photographs and photography, and anything else you can think of that amounts to “documenting and sharing the past.”
I am the archivist and one of the local history reference librarians at the Dayton Metro Library (Dayton, Ohio), a position I have held since 2008. This position involves processing manuscript and photograph collections, digitizing collections and making them available online, preserving and repairing materials, and serving at the local history reference desk. (Learn more about my professional work experience.)
I have a BA in History & Latin, BS in Info Technology, and an MA in public history (archival administration). I completed my Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) in May 2011. (Learn more about my education.)
In my spare time, I am usually hanging out with my husband, Matt. We have 1 dog and no children. In the past few years, we have completed several major remodeling projects in our home. I also enjoy photography (check out my Flickr) and genealogy, and I dream about visiting Italy again soon.
To learn more about my education, professional work experience, etc., please visit the other areas of this site.
Disclaimer: This blog is likely to contain entries pertaining to materials I find at work (both out of an interest or curiosity regarding the items themselves and an interest in promoting my institution and its collections). Even so, the statements and opinions posted here are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views or endorsements of my employer(s) or affiliations.
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I can be contacted by email at : lisarickey2008 [at] gmail [dot] com.
This page was last edited on August 28, 2012.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and CONGRATS on getting your MLIS degree recently! =)
Ms. Rickey:
Thank you for your article on Luther B. Bruen. I have been seeking information on him for the last 25 years and now my personal mystery has been solved. I have been in possession of the Bruen family bible for at least 25 years and have never been able to get any information about him and now thanks to you I know the answers to some of questions that I have had about Major Bruen.
Once again thank you
Bob
Dear Ms. Rickey,
Thank you for the information about Dr. John G. Affleck, who had a close connection to James Dudley Gray – who learned medicine from him in hte 1840s, in Somerset, Belmont County, and who also was a printer, and beame involved in publishing a newspaper The Belmont Farmer. This was one of at least 4 papers Affleck was involved in, but it seems quite hard to find extant examples of his writing, even though many refer to his erudition, fine library, and literary talent. If there is a souce that draws together some of Aflleck’s writins, I would love it see it. What ogt me intereste in this are a series of letters from Gray (mentioned above) to a cousin, and which I inherited in a roundabout fashion. They remain unpublished, but I am going to change that – and Affleck is an important character in the tale.
All this is quite a change for me, as my previous publications have all been on technological history, including one about to come out on the history of the assembly line with MIT Press.
I go on too long. Thank you for the blog.
Best wishes
David E. Nye
Thank you so much for your comments! I’ve just sent you an email with more info.
what year did you post the picture of Edward Tullibardine Affleck, from what CDV did you get it?
I’m not sure I understand your question.
The photo of Edward Tullibardine Affleck that I posted on my blog — http://lisarickey.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/a-tale-of-two-howards-part-12-edward-affleck/ — came from the Martin’s Ferry Historical Society (this page : http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohmfahs/cw-affleck.htm) and was used with permission.
The photo itself wasn’t dated on their web site, but judging by the look of it (a carte de visite) and from what I know about Edward (that he was born in 1843 and how old he appears in the photo), I’d say the picture was probably from the late 1860s or the 1870s.
Does that help?