Christopher M. Raab
Archives
and Special Collections Librarian
(Associate Librarian)
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
Franklin & Marshall College
Archives
and Special Collections
Franklin and Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Tel. (717) 291-4225
Fax. (717) 291-4160
Email craab@fandm.edu
Historiated Initial, 15th Century Dutch Book of Hours
Education
B.A. May 1990, Carnegie
Mellon University - History
M.L.S. August 1992, University
of Pittsburgh - Library/Archival Science
C.A.S. August 1993, University
of Pittsburgh - Library/Archival Preservation
Recent Continuing Education
•Digitization/Web/XML
Database Driven Web Sites, July 26, 2001 - LITA Institute Albany,
NY
Introduction to Digitization, August 27, 2001 - SENYLRC Newburgh,
NY
Introduction to Scanning, August 28, 2001 - SENYLRC Highland, NY
Introduction to Metadata, May 3, 2002 - SENYLRC Newburgh, NY
Copyright for Digital Projects, June 26, 2002 - SENYLRC New Paltz,
NY
Digital Preservation, July 17, 2002 - SENYLRC New Paltz, NY
Ingeniux CMS Workshop, XML Web Training, Fall 2004 - F&M
Photoshop Elements Workshop, Fall 2004 - F&M
Readex Digital Institute, October 5-7, 2005 - Readex, Chester, VT
XML and Libraries, October 28, 2005 - LITA Institute Philadelphia, PA
NITLE DSpace User Community Meeting, June 14-15, 2007 - Hartford, CT
Maratech/MIV Training, Collaborate With MIV, February 12, 2008 - NITLE
Maratech/MIV Training, Lead and Teach With MIV, February 25, 2008 - NITLE
Learning Times/Elluminate Speaker Orientation Session, April 15, 2008
- ACRL
•Special Collections Administration/Management
Raising More Money: Building Lifelong Donors, August 29, 2002 - Albany
Chapter/AFP Albany, NY
Rare Book Cataloging, July 27 - August 1, 2003 - Rare Book School, University
of Virginia
Exhibit Cases that Preserve, December 9, 2003 - CCAHA/College of Physicians,
Philadelphia, PA
Successful Supervision, Supervisor training course (12 contact hours),
Spring 2004 - F&M
Intro. to History of Bookbinding, July 12 - July 16, 2004 - Rare Book
School, University of Virginia
Connections Quality Service Program, Customer service training course
(9 contact hours), July 2004 - F&M
Working With Challenging People (Succ. Supervision Adv. Session), Fall
2005 - F&M
Taking Corrective Action (Succ. Supervision Adv. Session), Fall 2005 -
F&M
Intro. to History of Typography, July 24- July 28, 2006 - Rare Book School,
University of Virginia
SEPLA Conference "Library As Place", December 1, 2006 - King
of Prussia, PA
Advanced Seminar in Special Collections Administration, July 30- Aug 3,
2007 - Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Coaching and Managing (Succ. Supervision Adv. Session), November 2007
- F&M
Effective Performance Reviews (Succ. Supervision Adv. Session), February
2008 - F&M
Professional Experience
1994-1997 - Cedar Crest College - Interlibrary Loan Associate [full-time]
1997-1998 - Cedar Crest College - Reference Librarian [part-time]
1997-1998 - Allentown Public Library - Reference Librarian [part-time]
1998-2000 - Assistant Librarian, SUNY New Paltz - Reference Librarian
[full-time]
2000-2002 - Senior Assistant Librarian, SUNY New Paltz - Electronic Resources
Librarian [full-time]
2002-2007 - Franklin and Marshall College, Archives and Special Collections
Librarian [full-time]
2007-present - Associate Librarian, Franklin and Marshall College, Archives
and Special Collections Librarian [full-time]
Fellowships & Memberships
• 1993 UMI Preservation Fellow - University of Pittsburgh - University
Microfilms Incorporated
Award to pursue certificate of advanced study in library and archival
preservation
• Member, MARAC (Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference)
• Member, ACRL/DVC (Association of College and Research Libraries/Delaware
Valley Chapter)
Grants
• 1999/2000 New York
State Discretionary Grant for the Conservation and Preservation
of Library Research Materials
$12,688 award to fund the preservation reformatting of 430 historic
New Paltz photographs
• 2000 New York Library Association ASLS/Ridley's Book Bindery Student
Internship Grant
$1,000 award to fund a library school graduate student intern at the
Sojourner Truth Library
• 2002 PA Library Services and Technology Act/NetShare
Grant
$15,000 award to fund digitization of the Reynolds Family Papers,
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• 2006 Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant
$8,000 award to fund digitization of the Lancaster Journal newspaper,
1816-1836.
Digitization
• SUNY
New Paltz Postcard Collection, Image AXS Pro Software (2001)
• Reynolds
Family Papers - Digital Collection, Cumulus Software (2003)
• F&M
College Reporter Student Newspaper, 1915-2001, Olive Software
(2004 -
• Lancaster
County Digitization Project - LCDP, Olive Software (2004 -
• South
Netherlands Book of Hours, Digital Library of Illuminated Manuscripts
(2005)
• Content
Cooperative Pilot Member, OCLC Digital Archive/Open WorldCat
(2006-07)
• Scholars
Square F&M DSpace Institutional Repository, NITLE DSpace
Pilot Service, (2007 -
Presentations
• "Documenting New
Paltz History: A Cooperative Effort" - with Eric Roth, Huguenot Historical
Society - ENY/ACRL Spring Conference - Schenectady County Community College,
Albany, NY - May 19, 2000
• "Organizing a Public School District Archive" - Pearl
River Alumni Association - Pearl River Union Free School District, Pearl
River, NY - September 29, 2000
• "Find it Fast, Find it Full-Text, Find it FREE?" - Information
Literacy Fair 2000 - Sojourner Truth Library, SUNY New Paltz - November
14, 2000
• "Electronic Reserves @ SUNY New Paltz" - with Darlene
Alessi, Anna Badillo, Nancy Nielson, Barbara Petruzzelli, and Tamm Sissac
- SENYLRC/SUNY New Paltz, SUNY New Paltz - January12, 2001
• "Huguenot Street's Educational Legacy" - with Eric Roth,
Huguenot Historical Society - SUNY New Paltz Alumni Reunion Weekend -
SUNY New Paltz - July 7, 2001
• "Preservation Awareness Workshop" - with Matthew Pfisterer
(Student Intern), SUNY Albany - Sojourner Truth Library, SUNY New Paltz
- August 6, 2002
• "Special Collections: Library Session with Christopher
Raab" – International Round Table, “German-American and
French-Canadian Almanacs in the 18th and 19th Century” - Franklin
and Marshall College - April 2, 2004
• "Preserving and Processing Archival Collections"
- with Heather Tennies (Lancaster County Historical Society) - Franklin
and Marshall College - April 5, 2004; March 3, 2008
• "Handbound Chapbooks, Unique Artists' Books, and Other Inspiring
Bookworks" - Part 2 of 3, Fall Book Making Workshops - Franklin and
Marshall College - October 25, 2004
• Poster Presentation "Lancaster
County Digitization Project: the Birth of a Digital Cooperative"
- ACLCP & ACRL/DVC Joint Conference, March 18, 2005
• Web
Presentation "Digitization Projects: Internal Development vs. Outsourcing
Production" - Palinet & Olive Software, November 30, 2005
• Poster Presentation "Getting On Target:
Collaborative Solutions to Digitization for College Library Special Collections"
- ACRL 13th National Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 31, 2007
• "Digitizing Campus Newspapers" - with
Sue Kellerman (Penn State University) - PaLA CRD Spring Workshop, June
8, 2007
• Web Presentation with Stacy Nowicki, Kalamazoo
College, "Creating an IR: Planning and Policies" - NITLE DSpace
Virtual User Community Meeting, March 26, 2008
• Web Presentation "Recognizing Opportunities
for Library Leadership (R.O.L.L.)" - ACRL/LAMA Joint Spring Virtual
Institute, April 29-30, 2008
Publications
• Raab, Christopher. "The First Four Score and Five:
New Paltz Higher Education, 1828 - 1913," Observer Magazine
, XIX, no.1 (Fall 2000): 10 -19.
• Raab, Christopher. "From Normal School to College of
Education: New Paltz Higher Education, 1914 - 1961," Observer
Magazine , XIX, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 6 -17.
• Raab, Christopher. "Discovering Huguenot Street's Educational
Legacy: The New Paltz Academy, Part 1 of 2," On Huguenot Street
, 3, no.1 (March 2001): 10 -11.
• Raab, Christopher. "Discovering Huguenot Street's Educational
Legacy: From Academy to Normal School, Part 2 of 2," On Huguenot
Street , 3, no.2 (June 2001): 14 -15.
• Raab, Christopher and Roth, Eric. "Documenting New Paltz
History: A Case Study in Library-Museum Cooperation," College
& Undergraduate Libraries , 8, no.2 (2001): 103 -112.
more...
• Raab, Christopher. "From College of Education to State
University: New Paltz Higher Education, 1962 - 2002," Observer
Magazine , XX, no.2 (Fall 2002): 4 -15.
• Raab, Christopher. "Barr None" Franklin and Marshall
College Magazine, no.37 (Summer 2003): 22-23. more...
• Raab, Christopher. "Digital News You Can Use" The
Readex Report, 1, no.1 (Spring 2006). more...
• Raab, Christopher. "You Name It!" College &
Undergraduate Libraries , 13, no.3 (2006): 125 -126.
more...
• Raab, Christopher. "Fackenthal's Tiles" Franklin
and Marshall College Magazine, no.48 (Autumn 2006): 22-25. more...
• "Web Exclusive - Has Archiving Changed Because of the Internet?,
A Question and Answer Session with F&M's Archivist Christopher Raab"
Franklin and Marshall College Magazine, no.49 (Winter 2007):
28. more...
• Raab, Christopher. "Collaborative Solutions to Digitization
for College Library Special Collections" College & Undergraduate
Libraries, 14, no.4 (2008): (forthcoming)
Programming
• "To Hide in Plain Sight, Re-discovering 19th Century Fore-edge
Book Painting" with archivist John Ansley - Spring 2003 Friends of
the Library Event, F&M
• "Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: the
U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842" with author Nathaniel Philbrick
- Fall 2003 Friends of the Library Event, F&M
• Friends of the Library Book Sale, Franklin and Marshall College
- December 1-7, 2003
• "Friends Reading Group and Reception with writer Ellen Gilchrist"
- Spring 2004 Friends of the Library Event, F&M
• "Stitching Together the New Republic: Needlework
and Books" with Dr. Louise Stevenson - Fall 2004 Friends of the Library
Event, F&M
• Friends of the Library Book Sale, Franklin and Marshall
College - November 29-December 3, 2004
• "Moravian Tiles: Working in an Anti-Industrial Aesthetic
in Post-Modern America" with ceramist Adam Zayas - Spring 2005 Friends
of the Library Event, F&M
• "The Old F&M and the New" with Dr. David Schuyler-
Fall 2005 Friends of the Library Event, F&M
• Friends of the Library Book Sale, Franklin and Marshall College
- November 28-December 2, 2005
• "The Magnificence of a Chaos: Guide Books to Rome" with
Kathleen M. Spencer- Spring 2006 Friends of the Library Event, F&M
• "William Troxell, Thomas Brendle, Clarence Rahn, and the
Construction of Modern Pennsylvania German Ethnicity" with Dr. William
Donner- Fall 2006 Friends of the Library Event, F&M
• Friends of the Library Book Sale, Franklin and Marshall College
- November 27-December 1, 2006
• "F&M College Library 500,000th Book Celebration"
with Provost Steiner and President Fry, Spring 2007-Friends of the Library
Event, F&M
• "The Changing World of Book Collecting Thru the Eyes of a
Country Bookseller" with John Kinsey Baker III '76, Fall 2007-Friends
of the Library Event, F&M
• Friends of the Library Book Sale, Franklin and Marshall College
- November 26-30, 2007
• "The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: Making it a Book Again"
with Mr. Richard Kuhta, Spring 2008-Friends of the Library Event, F&M
Preservation
• NEDCC/Sojourner
Truth Library Preservation Survey - Special Collections, SUNY New Paltz,
Spring 2002
• Franklin and Marshall College Libraries Disaster Plan - Major
Revision, Fall 2003 - Update, Fall 2006
Exhibits
• "Early New Paltz Diplomas conserved by the Friends
of the Sojourner Truth Library" - Homecoming Alumni Reunion, October
13-15, 2000, Sojourner Truth Library Exhibit Hall, SUNY New Paltz
• "The Birth of a Book: Where do books come from?" - with
Ronald G. Knapp, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, January 2002,
Sojourner Truth Library Exhibit Hall, SUNY New Paltz
• "Franklin and Marshall College Timeline" -
in honor of the Inauguration of President John Anderson Fry, 14th President
of Franklin and Marshall College, Spring 2003, Roschel Center for the
Performing Arts more...
• "20 Treasures from the Archives and Special Collections"
- in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Shadek-Fackenthal Library,
Fall 2003, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal Library more...
• "From Collection to Publication: Recent Scholarship from
the Archives and Special Collections, 1999-2003" - Spring 2003, Main
Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "Panoramas from the Past: 1915-1945" - a selection of
panoramic photographs from the Archives and Special Collections - Spring
2004, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "And Now He Belongs to the Ages" - a selection of Lincolniana
from the Archives and Special Collections - Fall 2004, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal
Library
• "From Clasps to Cosway: Celebrating Five Centuries of Historic
Bookbinding Styles" - Spring 2005, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal
Library
• "Stage
to Stardom: A Selection of Famous Actresses from the Alexander Corbett
Collection of Theatre Memorabilia" - Fall 2005, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal
Library
• "Benjamin Franklin: The First Liberal Arts Student?"
- in support of the F&M "Franklin Experiment", January 19,
2006, Rothman Gallery, Phillips Museum of Art more...
• "Modern
Medievals: Moleiro Facsimiles from the Special Collections" - Spring
2006, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "Otto
F. Ege: Master of the Bible Leaves" - Fall 2006, Main Lobby, Shadek-Fackenthal
Library
• "Out of
Sorts: A Short History of Typography" - Spring 2007, Main Lobby,
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "Arbeite
und hoffe: The Press at Ephrata Cloister" - Summer 2007, Main Lobby,
Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary" – Fall 2007,
Main Floor (Rear), Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "Roger Tory Peterson" – Fall 2007, Main Floor
(Rear), Shadek-Fackenthal Library
• "A Miniature History of Miniature Books" – Spring
2008, Main Floor (Rear), Shadek-Fackenthal Library
Advisory Committees
• Member, OCLC Partners
Program - Extended WorldCat Tele-Conference
Committee, Dublin, OH; San Francisco, CA (Public Libraries); Chicago,
IL (School Libraries); Southeastern NY (Academic Libraries) - 2001
• Member, SUNY New Paltz
Presidential Search Committee, Library Faculty Representative - 2002 more...
• Member,
SENYLRC (Southeastern New York Library Resources Council) Digital Advisory
Task Force (Southeastern New York) - Highland, NY - 2002 more...
• Invited
Member, Library Committee, James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation
of Wheatland - 2005 - present
• Invited Member, NITLE
DSpace Users Community Meeting Planning Committee, NITLE, 2008 –
present
• Invited Member, Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference (MADLC)
Planning Committee, 2008 – present