Moore, a Ph.D. candidate in the OSU History Department, is assisting the curator. Some time this season, American Experience, a program of the Public Broadcasting Service, will broadcast an hour-long documentary about Richard E. Byrd. Glenn is not a polar explorer. However, the University Archives, which in collaboration with the Byrd Polar Research Center and the OSU Libraries manages the Byrd Archival Program will be responsible for the Glenn Archives, in cooperation with OSU s Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy. An archivist for this program will be hired in the next months.
Photographs are the most frequently requested items in the historical collections.
Currently, the Archives is undertaking a project to scan photographs to CD-ROMs for the purpose of facilitating access. Also represented are the Byrd Polar Research Center and the OSU Libraries. The Archives is currently hosting two researchers from Australia who are using the Wilkins collection. At the publisher s request, the Byrd Polar Research Center and the Department of Geography have agreed to take on the editorial duties for the journal, Polar Geography . The new editor will be Kees van der Veen, assisted by associate editors, Ellen Mosley-Thompson and John Rayner.