Wilda Logan

Wilda D. Logan 'yar asalin Amurka ce wacce aka fi sani da aikinta na kusan shekaru 40 a cikin sana'ar adana bayanai ciki har da shekaru 33 na aikin tarayya tare da Shirin Horar da Gudanar da Rubuce-rubuce na National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) . Ita memba ce ta Society of American Archivists (SAA), Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), kuma tana da takardar shaidar Archivist tare da Kwalejin Tabbataccen Archivists, inda ta yi aiki a matsayin Regent daga 1991-1994. 

 Ilimi 
A matsayinsa na dalibi a Cibiyar Hampton (yanzu Jami'ar) , Logan da farko ya yi mafarkin zama mai kula da ɗakin karatu. Ta yi karatu a tarihi kuma ta shirya ci gaba bayan kammala karatunta tare da digiri na biyu a kimiyyar ɗakin karatu. A wata hira da Steven D. Booth, mai adana bayanai a ɗakin karatu na shugaban kasa na Barack Obama, ta bayyana kwarewarta ta farko tare da adana bayanai:"A Hampton, ana buƙatar manyan masanan tarihi su rubuta babban rubutun ta amfani da tushe na farko. Don haka an ba mu izini na musamman don yin bincike a Hampton Archives. Yanzu ba za ku iya shiga kawai ba. Dole ne ku sami alƙawari. Lokacin da na tafi saduwa da mai adana bayanai, sunansa shine Mista [Fritz] Malval, ya nuna mini duk nau'ikan rubuce-rubuce game da Hampton, wasu daga farkon abin da aka tsara su ne, har yanzu ina samun hotuna masu kyau a matsayin babban aikinta, har yanzu suna Hampton da sakamakonsa.Bayan ta kammala karatu daga Hampton, Logan ta sami cikakken tallafin karatu a Jami'ar Maryland a College Park don neman Jagorancinta a Kimiyya ta Laburaren. Yayinda take can, ta kasance "ɗaya daga cikin ɗaliban digiri na cikakken lokaci na Afirka guda biyu".  A cikin shekarunta na ƙarshe, akwai damar horarwa a duk faɗin Washington, DC, gami da Smithsonian da Library of Congress, amma Logan ba ta iya samun kowane horarwa tare da tarin Afirka na Amurka ba. Mai ba da shawara ya yi magana da abokan aiki a Jami'ar Howard kuma ya kirkiro horo tare da Dokta Thomas Battle a Cibiyar Bincike ta Moorland-Spingarn a Jami'an Howard. Ta yi aiki a Moorland yayin da take yin wani aikin digiri na biyu a National Archives, kuma lokacin da ta sami digiri, an ba ta matsayin Manuscripts Librarian a Moorlands.
Ayyuka
A matsayinta na mai kula da litattafan rubuce-rubuce a Moorland-Spingarn, tana da alhakin sarrafa wasu manyan rubuce-aikacen Afirka da takardun sirri, gami da na Dokta Charles Drew da Jesse E. Moorland. A shekara ta 1985, bayan ta yi aiki na shekaru bakwai a Jami'ar Howard, ta ci gaba zuwa matsayin mai adana bayanai a National Archives sannan ta zama Shugaba da Mai Kula da Kungiyar Aiki. A matsayinta na mai kula, tana da alhakin Ma'aikatar Aikin Gona, Lafiya da Ayyukan Dan Adam, 'Ilimi, Sufuri, da Ma'aikatu. Ta ci gaba da gudanar da ayyukan shirye-shiryen horar da gudanarwa a Washington, DC kuma ta gudanar da taron RACO na shekara-shekara da kuma taron ARMA na Tarayyar Tarayya. Yayinda take ci gaba da kula da ayyukanta na gudanarwa da kulawa, an kuma sanya Logan a cikin ƙungiyoyi masu banbanci da haɗa kai. A daya daga cikin tawagarta, sun kasance "mai alhakin kasafin kuɗi, rahotanni na aiki, kafa aikin horar da Hispanic Association of College and Universities (HACU), yada damar daukar ma'aikata ta NARA, musamman ga ɗalibai; raba littattafan kyauta na NARA da halartar ayyukan yanki da sana'a da kuma ayyukan aiki don inganta NARA".  Saboda ayyukansu a cikin bambancin da hadawa, an ba Logan da ƙungiyar lambar yabo ta Archivist Achievement Award a duka 2001 da 2002.

Logan ya taimaka wajen bunkasa muhimman manufofi da takardu da yawa ta hanyar NARA "ciki har da bayanan tabbatar da tabbatarwa; kayan horar da gudanar da rikodin; shirye-shiryen taron, takardun labarai, da wallafe-wallafen; takardun bayanan gudanarwa; gudanar da rikodi da manufofi daban-daban da hanyoyin; da rahotanni na kimantawa".

A cikin 2023, an ba Logan lambar yabo ta Distinguished Terrapin Award ga tsofaffin ɗaliban makarantar digiri na Jami'ar Maryland College of Information Studies . 

 Haɗin kai 

 Kungiyar Masu adana Tarihi ta Amurka 
Logan ta zama memba na Society of American Archivists (SAA)  a 1978 kuma ta yi aiki a kwamitoci da yawa ciki har da aiki a Majalisar SAA daga 1998-2001 da kuma nadin ta a matsayin Fellow na SAA a 2006.  Ta hanyar SAA, ita ma memba ce ta Kwamitin Shirin, Kwamitin membobin, Kwamitin Nominating, Kwamitin Matsayin Mata, Kwamitin Bincike da Ci gaba na Ƙungiya, Kwamitin Nazarin Wasanni na Kolonial, Kwamitin Bambancin, Kwamitin Ilimi da Ci Gaban Kwararru, Kwamitin Zaɓin Shirye-shiryen ARL / SAA daga 2013-2016, da Kwamitin Daraktocin Gidauniyar SAA a cikin 2016, wanda aka amince da shi ta hanyar kuri'ar Majalisar SAA. Ta taimaka wajen gano African-American da Third World Archivist Roundtable, yanzu Archivists & Archives of Color Roundtable, inda ta yi aiki a matsayin co-shugaba a shekarar 1998. 

 Masu adana bayanai da Tarihin Round Color Table 
Akwai batutuwa da yawa a SAA game da bambancin, ko rashin shi. A tarihi, ba a sami sa hannun 'yan tsiraru da yawa a cikin SAA don haka "mutane suna magana game da mu kuma yin yanke shawara a gare mu kamar dai ba mu wanzu ba".  Logan, tare da wasu, sun taimaka wajen kirkirar Minorities Roundtable a cikin 1987 (yanzu Archivists da Archives of Color), kuma wasu sun fara magana game da wasu ayyukan SAA kuma sun fara buga wata takarda. Bayan rashin amincewa daga SAA game da tallafawa takardar labarai, Dokta Thomas Battle ya ba da shawarar cewa Jami'ar Howard za ta rufe farashin kuma ma'aikatan za su buga da rarraba takardar kyauta. Ana samun takardun labarai ga duk wanda ke da sha'awar batutuwan tarihin, rubuce-rubuce da tarin mutane masu launi. A cikin shekara guda, sun koma SAA tare da lambobi da ke tabbatar da shahararsu tsakanin 'yan Afirka na Afirka ba kawai. Daga baya aka yi amfani da wasikar a matsayin abin koyi ga Roundtables na gaba, kodayake an ci gaba da tallafawa ta hanyar Jami'ar Howard da Dokta Thomas Battle. "Yana da mahimmanci a gare mu rushe waɗannan shingen kuma ina son in yi tunanin cewa mun yi hakan. "  Ta hanyar Minorities Round Table, Logan ya kuma taimaka wajen kafa Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award.

A cikin 2018, Wilda ta sanar da ritayar ta daga National Archives and Records Administration. Ƙudurin Majalisar na girmama Wilda Logan a ranar 17 ga Agusta, 2018 ya kammala kamar haka:"Wilda wakili ne na canji wanda ke da tasiri mai karfi da jagora a kan sana'a da kuma masu adana bayanai a duk faɗin ƙasar ta hanyar kokarin da take yi na daukar ma'aikata, jagoranci, da kuma shirya masu adana tarihi da yawa don shiga cikin sana'a kuma a cikin SAA, musamman masu adana kayan tarihi na launi da ma'aikatan NARA; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED cewa Majalisar Society of American Archivists ta gane da kuma godiya ga Wilda Logan saboda iliminta, ƙwarewa, sha'awar, da kuma Gidauniyar SAA, da SAA.

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