Brenda Banks

**Brenda S. Banks** (11 ga Nuwamba, 1949 - 25 ga Yuli, 2016)   ta kasance mai adana bayanai na Amurka da aka sani da aikinta na adana tarihin Georgia a matsayin shugaban kwamitin Cibiyar Tarihin Georgia . Ayyukanta tare da Georgia Archives da sababbin abubuwan da ta samu a cikin ilimi da shirye-shiryen horo sun sanya ta zama jagora a rayuwar ilimi ta Amurka.

## Ayyuka

### Tarihin Jihar Georgia
Banks ta kasance mai mahimmanci a cikin filin Tarihi, Curatorial da Library Sciences a Georgia kusan kusan shekaru 40, kuma ta sadaukar da kanta don ganowa, zaɓar, adanawa, da kuma samun damar bayanan da suka zama tarihin da aka rubuta a jihar. Ta fara aiki ba da daɗewa ba bayan ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin kimiyyar ɗakin karatu daga Jami'ar Atlanta a 1972, lokacin da ta shiga Ma'aikatar Tarihi da Tarihi ta Georgia a matsayin Mataimakin Mai adana bayanai. Ita ce kawai ƙwararren ɗan Afirka na Amurka a kan ma'aikata a wannan lokacin. Banks ya tashi ta hanyar matsayi, daga ƙarshe ya zama mataimakin darektan Georgia Archives. A matsayinta na mataimakiyar darakta, tana da alhakin gudanar da shirin adana bayanai kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin manajan aikin don gina sabon filin adana bayanai na 172,000. A shekarunta na ƙarshe kafin ta yi ritaya a shekara ta 2005, an zabe ta a matsayin shugabar kwamitin Cibiyar Tarihin Georgia .

### Tarihin Afirka da Amurka
Bayan aikinta na jihar Georgia, ta sadaukar da kanta ga manyan ayyukan tarihi da yawa. Ta kasance manajan mai adana bayanai na Kwalejin Morehouse, Atlanta, GA, Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection, kuma ta yi aiki a Audre Lorde Collection a Kwalejin Spelman a matsayin babban mai adana bayanan aikin.

### Masu ba da shawara ga Bankin Tarihi
Banks ta kasance Shugaba da Shugaba na Banks Archives Consultants, kuma wani ɓangare na SGA Fellow class na 2009. Ta rike mukamai a matsayin manajan aikin SOLINET (Solutions for Innovative Networks, tun lokacin da aka haɗu don ƙirƙirar sabon kamfani ) Gulf Coast Academic Library Recovery Project, da kuma taimakawa kamfanonin gine-gine da cibiyoyin al'adu daban-daban tare da ƙirar ajiya. 

### Ƙungiyoyin ƙwararru
Banks ta kasance mai aiki a cikin ka'idoji da yawa da suka shafi tarihin, curatorial da kimiyyar ɗakin karatu. Ta kasance shugabar kungiyar Society of American Archivists a shekarar 1995-1996.  Banks ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kungiyar Society of Georgia Archivists, ta yi aiki ne a Kwamitin Ƙungiyar Ƙungiyar Gwamnati da Masu Gudanar da Tarihi, da Majalisar Duniya kan Tarihi. An kuma nada Banks a matsayin shugaban ƙungiyar sauyawa don Gwamnatin Clinton don gudanar da bita na gudanarwa na National Archives and Records Administration.

### Matsayi na musamman
*Shugaban SAA, 1995-1996*

*Shugaban SGA, 1988-1989*

*Shugaban, SAA Diversity Task Force*

*Co-Founder, SAA Archives & Archivists of Color Roundtable*

*Aboki, SAA*

*Aboki, SGA*

*Co-kafa, Cibiyar Tarihin Georgia*

*Mataimakin Darakta, Georgia Archives*

*Shugaba da Shugaba, Masu ba da shawara kan Bankuna*

## Kyaututtuka da yabo
Ta sami kyaututtuka da yawa a duk lokacin da ta yi aiki, ciki har da: Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, Kyautar Gwamna a cikin Humanities, Kyautar Advocacy na Tarihi (Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board), Kyautar Achievement ta Mutum a cikin Tarihin Tarihi da Gudanarwa a Georgia Records Association, Kyautar Misali ta Society of American Archives Council, Kyautar Kyautar Kyauta ta Ƙungiyar Georgia Archivists ta Georgia, Kyautar Alumnae a cikin Ƙungiyar Ƙungiyar Ilimi ta Kasa, da kuma ita ce ta Black Phi

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