Colleen Bradley-Sanders
Associate Professor/College Archivist
Library
Location: 135L Library
Phone: 718.951.5581
Fax: 718.951.4557
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Colleen Bradley-Sanders is the College Archivist at Brooklyn College. She teaches the Introduction to Archival Management Course. Prior to joining Brooklyn College, she was the Director of Information Management for Lindblad Expeditions, a Project Archivist at the Colorado Historical Society and Southern Methodist University, and the Archivist for the New York University School of Medicine's Health Sciences Library.
Education:
M.A., University of South Carolina - 1995 (Archives Administration)
M.L.I.S., University of South Carolina - 1995 (Library and Information Science)
B.A., University of Colorado - Boulder - 1986 (International Relations)
Areas of Expertise:
archival theory and practice, exhibit design, arrangement and description of records, management, digital archives
Books and Publications
"Working Remotely, Working Effectively: Improving Collection Access During a Global Pandemic." Collections. https://doi.org/10.1177/1550190620980735 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
"Sunday Sounds: Preserving the Radio Ministry of Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church." Journal of Archival Organization, 17, no.1-2: pp. 54-65. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
"The YWCA of Brooklyn, Empowering Women Since 1888." New York Archives, 19, no.1: 8-10. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2019
"Using Primary Sources to Achieve Pedagogical Goals in Sociology and Political Science at the Brooklyn College Archives." Collections, 15, no. 2-3: 190-209. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
"Grants for Processing: A Case Study in Grant Writing and Project Management at the Brooklyn College Archives," Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 14, no. 3-4: 111-127. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
"The Brooklyn Listening Project: Oral histories as a tool in socially engaged education" Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 13, no. 2: 143-158. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Bradley-Sanders, C. and A. Rudshteyn. "Brooklyn College and the development of MyLibrary Suite Apps." Developing In-House Digital Tools in Library Spaces. Eds. L. Costello and M. Powers. Information Science Reference. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2017
Review of Donors and Archives: A Guidebook for Successful Programs, by Aaron D. Purcell. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 29, no.1: 67-68. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2017
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Received a CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) Recordings-at-Risk grant for $41,103 to digitize and make available to the public nearly 800 sermons by the longtime pastor of Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, the Rev. Dr. William Augustus Jones, Jr. A contemporary of Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., Jones was a social justice activist who preached world-wide. (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
Received a federal grant for $120,631 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for the purpose of processing the records of the Brooklyn YWCA. The grant paid for the services of a Project Archivist, under the supervision of the College Archivist, for 18 months. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Greetings from Brooklyn: Historic Postcards at Brooklyn College Archives and Special Collections." Annual Conference, Popular Culture Association, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"Research Resources on Italians in the Horn of Africa." Annual Conference, John D. Calandra Italian-American Institute, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Presentation at the ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX, on the project to digitize and make freely available the audio and video recordings of nearly 800 sermons from a prominent African-American minister who was the head pastor at Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist church for over 40 years. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (virtual). Member of a panel discussion on the impact of federal funding for processing or digitizing so-called "hidden collections," and how that funding era has impacted archival institutions and the profession. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2020
"The Brooklyn YWCA Archives." Presented at the Brooklyn YWCA Symposium honoring 100 years of women's suffrage. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
Bradley-Sanders, Colleen and Juliana Magro. "Local History through Organizational Records: the Case of the YWCA." New York Archives Week. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
Professional Leadership
Member, Program Committee, Fall 2021 Hershey, PA Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. 2020-2021. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2021
Member, Student Disciplinary Committee, 2020-2021. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2020
Member, Committee on Academic Integrity, Brooklyn College. 2016-2020. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Member, Honors, Awards and Citations Committee, Brooklyn College, 2015-2016. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Member, Program Committee, 2017 Newark Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. 2016-2017. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2016
Other Professional Activities
"Women in the Archives." Lecture to a Brooklyn Connections class hosted by the Brooklyn College Archives, sponsored by the Brooklyn Historical Society. 2020
2020-2021: In conjunction with Prof. J. Wagner-Webster of Baruch College, act as a strategic partner with ITHAKA S+R's Mellon-funded research project - "Teaching with Cultural Heritage Collections and Materials Online." As strategic partners we will meet with Ithaka representatives and other strategic partners to develop the project, secure IRB approval from CUNY, and identify and secure the participation of ten faculty members, who will be interviewed by Ithaka between February and April 2021. 2020
Taught Introduction to Archival Management (HIST 4100). This is one course in the History Department's Archival Minor program. 2017
