The University of Toledo Libraries : Barbara Floyd B.A., M.A., M.P.A.

University Archivist
Director, Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
Professor
Phone: 419-530-2170
Phone: 419-530-4480
FAX:  419-530-5440

Education

• B.A., Journalism, The University of Toledo, 1980
• M.A., American History, The University of Toledo, 1982
• M.P.A., Public Administration, The University of Toledo, 1989 

Experience

• Archivist I, Manuscripts Department, Ohio Historical Society, 1982-1984.   Acquired manuscript collections documenting Ohio history.
• Local Government Records Specialist, State Archives Department, Ohio Historical Society, 1984-1986.  Assisted counties, cities, townships, and school districts with the management of their records and the preservation of records of historical value.
• University Archivist, University of Toledo, 1986-2002.  As university archivist, responsible for the selection, preservation, and reference of the historical records of the University of Toledo.  Also served as the university’s records manager. 
• University Archivist and Director, Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, 2002-.  Responsible for the administration of the special collections department, which includes rare books, manuscript collections, and the University’s archives.  Continue in role as university archivist and records manager. 

• Currently working on monograph in collaboration with W. Stuart Leslie, professor of History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University, on the history of the glass industry in Toledo entitled Heart of Glass.  Book is to be published by the UT Urban Affairs Press, 2008.
• Review of The Second Blessing: Columbus Medicine and Health—The Early Years, by Charles Wooley and Barbara Van Brimmer.  Appearing in JAMA:  The Journal of the American Medical Association, July 11, 2007, pp. 232-233.
• “Overcoming Another Obstacle:  Archiving a Community’s Disabled History.”  With Diane Britton and Patricia Murphy.  Radical History Review, Winter 2006, pp. 213-227.
• Images of America:  Toledo—The 20th Century.  Arcadia Publishing, October 2005.
• Images of America:  Toledo—The 19th Century.  Arcadia Publishing, July 2004.
• APPNA Qissa:  A History of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America,    1978-2003.  With S. Amjad Hussain.  Literary Circle of Toledo, 2004.
• “Chewing Tobacco, Meat Packers, Hamburger Chains, and Automobile
• Dealerships:  Early Professional Basketball in Toledo.”  Northwest Ohio History, 75(1), 2003, 59-74.
• “The Skillful Hand, the Cultured Mind:  Manual Training Schools Brought the Arts & Crafts Philosophy to the Masses.”  Style 1900: The Magazine of Turn-of-the-Century Design 14 (4), 46-53.
• The First 150 Years:  A History of The Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, 1851-2001.  With Vicki Kroll.  Toledo, OH:  Academy of Medicine, 2001.
• “Philip C. Nash and Toledo’s World View.”  Northwest Ohio Quarterly 69 (2), Spring 1997, pp. 96-106.
• “A Question of Quality:  How Authors and Editors Perceive Library Literature.” With John Phillips.  College and Research Libraries 58 (1), January 1997, 81-93.
• The Tower’s Lengthening Shadow:  125 Years of the University of Toledo. Toledo, OH:  Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, 1997.
• “Learning by Doing:  Undergraduates as Employees in Archives.”  With Richard W. Oram.  American Archivist 55(3), 440-452 (Summer 1992).
• “The Archivist as Public Administrator.”  Midwestern Archivist 15(1):  17-24 (1990).
• “When Opportunity Knocked:  UT’s Opportunity School.  Northwest Ohio Quarterly, (Spring 1988):  69-77.
• “A Walking Tour Guide to UT Architecture,” 1986.

• “Overcoming Another Obstacle: Documenting the History of a Community’s Disabled.”  Annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, 2006.
• “The Cultured Mind, the Skillful Hand:  The Toledo Manual Training School and the Arts and Crafts Movement.”  The Conference on Local History, Bowling Green State University, April 2004.
• “10,000 Miles and 25 Years:  The Journey of the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America.”  Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, February 2004.
• “The Cultured Mind, the Skillful Hand:  Manual Training Schools and the
• Democratization of the Arts and Crafts Movement.”  Association of Popular Culture, April 2003.
• “A Community Under the Microscope:  Medical History as Local History.” Presented at the History at the Grassroots Conference, Eastern Illinois University, October 2000.
• “Is There a Future for History Museums?”  American Association for State and Local History, September 2000. 

Selected Professional, University, and College Service:

• Chair, Main Campus Faculty Senate, 2007-2008.
• Co-chair, University Libraries, eLearning, and Academic Support Strategic Planning Committee, 2007-2008.
• Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board, 1993-
• Secretary, Midwest Archives Conference, 1996-2001
• President, Society of Ohio Archivists, 1990-1993
• Disability Studies Curriculum Advisory Committee, 2002-.
• Library’s Faculty Senate Representative and member of Executive committee, 2005-
• UT-AAUP Executive Committee, 2000-2002
• Public Relations Officer, UT Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2000-.