I am an archivist to share the importance of preserving historical and cultural artifacts.
I am a librarian to educate present and future generations.

Please feel free to contact me.
Email: ruth.slagle8@gmail.com

While conducting archival research as an undergraduate, I realized that I could turn what I enjoyed most, researching history and sharing with others, into a career path. As an archivist or a librarian I will have the opportunity to make history tangible through highlighting elements of personal stories through time. I want to be a part of sharing with the present what happened in the past.

Spinning on a Walking Wool Wheel, at Old Sturbridge Village

Welcome and please explore the website I have created to display the research and work I have done with the Sleeper Collection and other projects. When I first started volunteering in Asbury University's Archives and Special Collections during junior year, I never dreamed that it would turn into a two-semester independent study, then become a career choice. In the summer of 2013, I had just finished an amazing and awesome internship at Old Sturbridge Village, a living history museum, so I was very pleased to use my experience when conducting research about the Sleeper and Booth families. Towards the end of my senior year, Suzanne Gehring, Head of Archives and Special Collections, and I were invited to the KLA Joint Spring Conference to present. ~ Ruth Slagle

Presenting my Sleeper Collection research in Asbury Archives

Asbury University owns the Sleeper Family Collection of 19th century letters, essays, clippings, publications, and diaries donated to the institution in 1940-41 by John Fremont Sleeper and preserved for historical reference. Interested researchers may contact the Archives for more information.

Visit them at www.asbury.edu/archives
Email: archives@asbury.edu

Created and Maintained by Ruth Slagle

Graduate Coursework
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LIS 490 Intro to Technology in LIS
LIS 501 Information, Organization and Access  
      Combat Veterans Struggle with PTSD: There is HOPE poster
LIS 502 Libraries, Information, and Society
      The Disciplining of the Victorian Woman and India through Jane Eyre
LIS 507 Introduction to Bibliographic Metadata
      Coursework included creating original records
LIS 548 Library Buildings
LIS 580 Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship
        Rare Book Thieves - the Why of Stealing
LIS 581 Administration and Use of Archival Materials
       Arrangement, Appraisal, Review of two NEH Grants, S.P. Atkinson Monument Company Finding Aid, Webber Family Collection Finding Aid
LIS 582 Preserving Information Resources
       NEH Grant Proposal Project Title: General Preservation Assessment for the Classics Library Collection of the Ancient Near East Squeezes and Maps Collections
LIS 590 AV Audiovisual for Libraries and Archives
      Silent Mountain Heritage Museum
LIS 590 EDI Exhibit Design & Installation
LIS 590 GEL Genealogy and Library Reference Services
       Application for Marriage License, Family Group Sheet, Analysis of Censuses for 1920, 1930, & 1940, Genealogy Research for Escambia County, Florida: A Locality Guide
LIS 590 MM Medieval Manuscripts
       Book of Hours - Hours of Bancharaid, Illumination for the Book of Revelation, St. Hildegard of Bingen OSB Exhibit: The Visions that Changed the World
LIS 590 SPL Collection Development for Special Collections
       Collection Development Analysis of Georgia State University, Review of Wm. Reese Co. 311 American Women Catalog
LIS 591 Practicum - at the Law Library of Congress
Metadata project with Statues at Large Congresses 1-10 (1789-1810)

Undergraduate Related Coursework
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ENG 232 British Literature II
       Doubt and Grief in Tennyson's In Memoriam
ENG 261 American Literature I
        Encompassing Grief
HIS 200 Leadership in History
HIS 201 U.S. History to 1865
HIS 298 American Civil War
HIS 320 Ancient History
HIS 321 History of Christianity
        Traditions of the Church
HIS 322 Medieval Civilization
        Witch! Let's Throw Her in the Bog
HIS 323 History of Early Britain
       The Islandness of Britain in the Government
HIS 325 Origins of France
       Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister 500-900
HIS 327 Renaissance & Reformation
        The Grim Reaper Pays a Visit
        Luther Changes the World
HIS 350 Survey of Non-Western Civilizations
        Foot Binding in China
HIS 375 Study of History
      White Women Captives of the Native Americans: 1754-1874
HIS 393 Seminar of the Crusades
       The English Home-Front during the Third Crusade
HIS 491 Sleeper Family
       The Personal Papers of the Sleeper Family
HIS 491 Booth & Sleeper Families
       Bringing Hidden Treasures into the Light: Discovering Civil War Letters in an Archives Backlog
SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 212 Introduction to Anthropology