Edward J. Valauskas

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Edward J. Valauskas (born October 3, 1950) is an American librarian, educator, and editor-in-chief of the academic journal First Monday.

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Career

Valauskas has taught at the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University; International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland; Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; UC Berkeley Extension; University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies; and, Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. [1] In 2016, he was elected as Director-at-Large to the Board of Management of the International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services in Torun. [2]

Edward has worked in a variety of libraries, including those on the campuses of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago as well as special libraries at the Charles E. Merriam Center for Public Administration (MCL) in Chicago; Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Laboratory in Texas; and, United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland (UNOG). Most recently, he was curator of rare books at the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden. He was the curator of the traveling exhibit, Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery. The exhibit opened on 1 April 2004 at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. and has since appeared at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Milton Hershey School Art Museum in Hershey, Pa., Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center, and Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio. [3]

Edward has used a variety of rare herbals from the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden for lectures on Renaissance science as reflected in the Harry Potter series. These talks, entitled "Harry Potter's Herbology", have occurred at the Chicago Botanic Garden. [4] and elsewhere.

Editing and publishing

Valauskas is the founder and current editor-in-chief of First Monday. [5]

From September 2011 to December 2015, Valauskas wrote a monthly column, entitled "Stories from the Rare Book Collection", about rare books in the Lenhardt Library at the Chicago Botanic Garden. This column was supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. [6]

Valauskas is also the author or editor of several books related to the Internet and computing, including The Internet for Teachers and School Media Specialists (with Monica Ertel; New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996), Internet Initiative: Libraries Providing Internet Services and How They Plan, Pay, and Manage (with Nancy R. John; Chicago: ALA Editions, 1995), Internet Troubleshooter: Help for the Logged-On and Lost (with Nancy R. John; Chicago: ALA Editions, 1994), and, Macintoshed Libraries (with Bill Vaccaro; Cupertino, Calif.: Apple Library Users Group, 1987–94, six editions). He has also written a large number of papers and articles for magazines and journals.

Paleontological work

Valauskas collects books on paleontology, especially books written for young readers about dinosaurs. A portion of his collection formed an exhibit at the University of Virginia entitled The Boy Who Never Grew Up: Dinosaur Books & Realia from the Collection of Edward J. Valauskas in 1998. [7] A large number of these books and related materials were donated to Special Collections at the University of Chicago Library. [8] "Bibliosaurus! Dinosaurs in the Popular Imagination" opened in Special Collections at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library on January 2, 2024 and closed April 19, 2024. [9] The exhibit was based upon materials from Edward's on-going donations to Special Collections as well as additional items on loan from the private collection of his brother, Charles Valauskas. Edward has a considerable interest in paleontology and is attempting to visit many of the Lagerstätten in the world. [10] He has climbed to Cambrian Burgess Shale exposures in British Columbia, Canada; hunted fossils with his wife Nancy R. John in the Jurassic limestone exposed in quarries around Solnhofen and Eichstätt, Germany; and, as a youngster collected concretions with fossils of Late Carboniferous age at Pit 11 and the Mazon Creek area in Illinois (as well as in the Late Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation in McNairy County, Tennessee and around the Silurian reef exposed in the Thornton Quarry in Thornton, Illinois). [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Emily McElroy, 2003. "An interview with Edward J. Valauskas", Serials Review, volume 29, number 4, pp. 305–310.
  2. ↑ "Board of Management". The International Center for Information Management Systems and Services (ICIMSS). Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  3. ↑ Plants in Print exhibit schedule, at http://www.plantsinprint.org/. See also p. 8 of the Newsletter of the Council of Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, number 95 (November 2004), at http://www.cbhl.net/newsl_archives/newsl95.pdf Archived 2010-07-18 at the Wayback Machine .
  4. ↑ "Harry Potter's Herbology Class with Rare Books". YouTube. February 24, 2010. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Editorial Team: Edward J. Valauskas". First Monday . Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  6. ↑ "Stories from the Rare Book Collection". Chicago Botanic Garden. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Rare Book School Rotunda Exhibitions since 1995". Rare Books School. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Expanding Sources: Recent Additions to Special Collections". The University of Chicago Library. December 20, 2019. Archived from the original on February 21, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  9. ↑ https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/about/news/bibliosaurus-dinosaurs-in-the-popular-imagination/
  10. ↑ "Lagerstätten". Illinois State Museum. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
  11. ↑ Edward J. Valauskas, 2004. "Lessons from the Silurian", First Monday, volume 9, number 5, at http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1150/1070.
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