National Volunteer Week: Nita Evans

April 15 through 21 is National Volunteer Week. The Library & Archives Center has some great and dedicated volunteers. This is the last in a series of posts about the volunteers here.
Meet Ms. Nita Evans

Nita Evans is not new to the Petroleum Museum as she helps in the Education Department and the Museum Store/Admissions Desk.  With a background as a Veternarian Tecnician, she got to know the various animals in the Education Department, like Betty the Beared Dragon and Lola & Gypsy the Chinchillas.  In September 2011, Nita decided to also spend some time in the Library & Archives Center as well!

She has taken over scanning our large photographic collection of historic images.  Nita states she is interested in preserving the history of the petroleum industry for future generations.  With her time and effort, she's already scanned hundreds, if not thousands, of images to digitally preserve those snapshots of the past.

Nita and her husband Jim are interested in motorsports and are both very involved in the Midland area Corvette Club.  She also enjoys quilting, sewing and other crafts.

National Volunteer Week: Katelyn Mulder

April 15 through 21 is National Volunteer Week. The Library & Archives Center has some great and dedicated volunteers. This is the second in a series of posts about the volunteers here.

Meet Ms. Katelyn Mulder

Katelyn Mulder started volunteering in the Library & Archives Center in October 2011.  She came to the Museum with Masters' Degree in Library and Information Science from Dominican University.  She has previously volunteered at Clinics of St. Viator archives and the Rush University Medical Center.  With such a background, she dived right into processing the N. Ford Chapman Collection ... and finished it in record time!  More recently, she has helped me with inventorying museum objects.

Katelyn lists digital preservation, photographs and artifacts as some of her interests within the archives world.  When she came on board, she wanted to learn more about the oil and gas industry and to gain more experience in the archives field.  Hopefully, she accomplished that goal here at the Petroleum Museum's Library & Archives Center! 

Katelyn and her husband will soon be returning to Indiana, where they both come from.  Good luck to you both!

National Volunteer Week: Bob Angevine

April 15 through 21 is National Volunteer Week. The Library & Archives Center has some great and dedicated volunteers. This is the first in a series of posts about the volunteers here.

Meet Mr. Bob Angevine

Bob Angevine

Bob Angevine started working in the Library & Archives Center in October 2011 to catalogue a large collection of photographs, negatives and slides from T. B. O'Brien.  He went through every image, numbered it and created a catalogue worksheet describing it.  What a lot of work!  But I never heard him complain.  He recently finished up that project and is anxious to start up a new one!

Bob is a World War II veteran who was in the Air Force.  After flight school, he soon found himself a bombadier in the Midland area.  He comes from a family of telegraph operators, first for the railroads and then for the pipelines, from the Northeast and Ohio area. 

Bob works on processing a collection.

Thank you Bob for all that you do!