Sydney Van Nort

Archivist

Main Affiliation

Library

Building

North Academic Center

Office

5/301

Phone

(212) 650-7609

Fax

(212) 650-7604

Sydney Van Nort

Education

MA (Art History/Museum Studies), CCNY (CUNY) (2/2005)
MLS (Archival Management and Organization),  Columbia University (5/1992)                                     
AB (Medieval Studies), Vassar College (5/1979)

Archivist Certification through 2023, Academy of Certified Archivists  ( 04/2018)                   
Archivist Certification through 2018, Academy of Certified Archivists  (09/2013)
Archivist Certification through 2013, Academy of Certified Archivists  (11/2008)
Archivist Certification through 2008, Academy of Certified Archivists  (11/2002)                      

History of Printing,  Rare Book School, University of Virginia (03/1998)                        

                                      

Publications

A. Publications

"Exhibition Safe Space: The Cohen Library Archives Gallery" in Souls of Queer Black Folk: Queering Black History Month at CCNY Todd Roulette (ed.) (City College of New York, publication pending, 2021)

“Theft, Vandalism and Security in Libraries and Archives”, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Fourth Edition, Taylor and Francis, (2017), pp. 4576-4592.
 
 (with William Gibbons and Adrienne Petty [Equal]), “Revolutionary Times Revisited: Students interpretations of the City College of New York Student Protest and Takeover of 1969”, The History Teacher, Vol. 47, No. 4 (August 2014), pp. 511-528.  

The City College of New York. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.  Also available as of 10/26/2012 from the Apple iBookstore  at http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9781439618493

 “Theft, Vandalism and Security in Libraries and Archives”, The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Third Edition, (2009) Taylor and Francis Group, www.tandfonline.com.  

(with William Gibbons [Equal]) “Mamie Phipps Clark: The ‘Other Half’ of the Kenneth Clark Legacy”, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Winter 2009), pp 28-32.

(with Ching-Jung Chen [Equal]) “Image Collections at The City College of New York:
Collaborative Efforts at a Public Urban College Campus”, VRA Bulletin, Summer 2008.

“Townsend Harris: Opening Japan to the World” in Tobacco and Salt Museum, ed., Bakumatsu Nippon [Late Tokugawa Japan], Tokyo: Kadokawa Haruki Publishing House, 2007, pp. 31-45

"Library Theft", Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science,Vol. 62 (1998), pp. 194-215.

"Archival and Library Theft: The Problem That Will Not Go Away", Library and Archival Security, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 25-49.

B. Other Scholarly Work

"President's Glittering Gala Celebrates Charter Day and the 170th Anniversary of City College's Founding" Alumnus (June 2017)

“The First Knight of Gotham: Bashford Dean” Alumnus, v. 108, no. 2 (July 2013), pp. 12-13.  
 
“The City College Libraries Digital Gallery” CircumSpice no. 83 Fall 2011 p1.

 “Click for Seventy Years of The Campus Newspaper” CircumSpice no. 81 Fall 2010, p8.

“Pilgrimage from Japan Honors CCNY’s Founder” Alumnus Vol. 107, no. 1 (February 2012) p. 23

Library Received $10,000 Grant to Digitize Free Academy Documents” Vol. 104, no. 1 (Winter 2009) Alumnus p. 23