Meredith Evans (mai adana bayanai)

Meredith Rachelle Evans mai adana bayanai ce, masanin tarihi kuma malami kuma darektan Jimmy Carter Library and Museum a Atlanta .  Ayyukanta suna mai da hankali kan kwarewar Afirka ta Amirka a Amurka, gami da takardun bayanan ajiya daga majami'un Afirka ta Amirka da ke yankin Atlanta, da kuma adana kafofin sada zumunta daga zanga-zangar kare hakkin bil'adama na baya-bayan nan kamar na tashin hankali na Ferguson a Ferguson, Missouri bayan harbi na Michael Brown .

 Ilimi 
Evans ta halarci Friends Seminary kuma ta sami difloma ta makarantar sakandare a shekarar 1990. A Abokai, ta kafa kungiyar dalibai Cultural Awareness Reaching Everyone (CARE) kuma ta ba da shawarar cewa a haɗa marubutan baƙar fata a cikin tsarin karatun.

Ta sami digiri na farko a Tarihi da kuma digiri na biyu a kimiyyar ɗakin karatu daga Jami'ar Clark Atlanta .  Tana da digiri na biyu a Tarihin jama'a daga Jami'ar Jihar North Carolina  da kuma PhD a kimiyyar ɗakin karatu (maida hankali ga tarihin) daga Jami'an North Carolina a Chapel Hill . Rubutun ta ya mayar da hankali kan gudanar da rubuce-rubuce da ayyukan riƙewa na majami'u na Afirka a yankin Atlanta.

Dokta Evans ya koyar da darussan a cikin ɗakin karatu, ɗakunan ajiya da kimiyyar bayanai ciki har da Jami'ar Clark Atlanta, Jami'ar Jihar Wayne, Jami'an Jihar San José, da Jami'an North Carolina a Charlotte . 

 Ayyuka 
Yayinda yake mai kula a Cibiyar Jami'ar Atlanta, Evans ya taimaka wajen samun tallafin Gidauniyar Andrew W. Mellon don ƙididdigar takardun Martin Luther King Jr.  A matsayinta na mai adana bayanai, ta koyar da wani bita a cikin adana kayan tarihi mai taken "The Lessons of Pilgrim Baptist Church: Preventing the Loss of Your Heritage," wanda ya magance kulawa da adana kayan tarihin coci da rubuce-rubuce bayan mummunan wuta wanda ya lalata Ikilisiyar Baptist ta tarihi a Birnin Chicago a farkon shekara ta 2006. 

Evans ya yi aiki a matsayin Darakta na Tattalin Arziki na Musamman a Jami'ar George Washington (2008-2012),  Mataimakin Jami'ar Litattafan Nazarin Musamman da Shirye-shiryen Dijital a Jami'a ta Arewacin Carolina a Charlotte (2012-2014),  da Mataimakin Litattafin Jami'ar Washington a St. Louis (2012-2015).  Ta taimaka wajen kirkirar "Documenting Ferguson," wani ajiyar dijital da aka tsara ta al'umma wanda ke rubuce-rubuce game da tashin hankali a Ferguson, Missouri, bayan harbin da wani jami'in 'yan sanda ya yi wa Michael Brown. Ta rubuta game da tasirin sabbin hanyoyin adana bayanai don "tattara yanzu" kamar yadda ya danganta da kayan dijital da aka haifa waɗanda aka adana ta hanyar adanawa ta zamani a zamanin da aka adana bayan ajiyar kimiyya. A cikin 2014, WUSTL ta shiga tare da Jami'ar California a Riverside da Cibiyar Fasaha ta Maryland a cikin Humanities a Jami'ar Maryland, College Park, kuma daga baya ta sami tallafin Gidauniyar Mellon don ƙirƙirar "Rubuta Yanzu: Taimakawa da Amfani da Masana'antu da Tsaro na Abun Media," wani shiri don tattara da adana abubuwan Twitter a kan batutuwa na adalci na zamantakewa don bincike na ilimi na gaba.

A watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 2015, an sanya sunan Dr. Evans a matsayin sabon darektan gidan karatu da gidan kayan gargajiya na Jimmy Carter a Atlanta. Ta ci gaba da rike wannan mukamin tun daga watan Janairun shekara ta 2025.

A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 2017, an zabi Evans a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban kasa / Shugaban da aka zaba na Society of American Archivists .  Ta yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kasa na 74 na SAA daga 2018 zuwa 2020. 

 Zaɓin littattafai 

 [Inda Aka Ɗauko Hoto da ke shafi na 9] (2006). Ayyukan Rubuce-rubuce a cikin Zaɓuɓɓukan Ikklisiyoyin Black na Yankin Atlanta. Rubuce-rubuce. Jami'ar Arewacin Carolina a Chapel Hill .
 Evans, Meredith R. (2007). Digitization na wallafe-wallafen Afirka na Amurka. The Serials Librarian, 53 (1-2), 203-210, DOI: 10.1300/J123v53n01_16
 Evans, Meredith R. (2015). Tarin Musamman na zamani: Ɗauki Ƙaunar Makomar Yayin da kake Kula da Abin da ya gabata. Sabon Bincike na Laburaren Ilimi, 21 (2), 116-128. DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2015.1040926
 Foster, M.J. da Evans, M.R. (2016). "Libraries da ke samar da ayyuka masu ɗorewa a lokacin rikicin al'umma: Documenting Ferguson", Library Management, 37 (6/7), 352-362. DOI: 10.1108/LM-06-2016-0049

 Kyaututtuka 

 Ƙungiyar Littattafan Bincike Jagora Fellowship (2013) 
 Fellow na Society of American Archivists (2024) 

 Manazarta 

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