Gretchen Oberfranc

Gretchen Oberfranc , also Gretchen M. Oberfranc (born January 1, 1951 ) is a former librarian at Princeton University who published more than 40 editions of the Princeton University Library Chronicle .

Life

When he was fourteen, Oberfranc was already working in the children's book section of the library in her hometown. She moved in 1977 to the Newberry Library , where she for 24 years as a copy editor worked as a copy editor , a position in which she was responsible for the release of hundreds of manuscripts. The starting point was her collaboration on the Atlas of Early American History. The Revolutionary Era, 1760–1790 , Princeton 1976. She later moved from the press to Rare Books and Special Collections with their medieval manuscripts, incunabula and rarities.

As the successor to Patricia H. Marks from 2002, Oberfranc was the editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle , which appears in three annual editions at Princeton University, where Oberfranc worked until December 31, 2014. The Chronicle has been published since 1939; its predecessor Biblia was published from 1930 to 1938.

Publications (selection)

• Object Lessons , in: Thoreau Society Bulletin 240 (2002) 4 f.
• with Alan M. Stahl (Ed.): The Rebirth of Antiquity. Numismatics, Archeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the Renaissance , Princeton 2009.

literature

• Guide to Departments of History , American Historical Association, 1975, p. 354.

Web links

• Good-bye to Gretchen Oberfranc, editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle , December 30, 2014
• Princeton University Library Chronicle (1930–1999) (Links to PDFs)
• Princeton University Library Chronicle 46.1 (2004)
• Princeton University Library Chronicle 57 (2006)

Remarks

1. ↑ For the content spectrum cf. The Library Chronicle , Princeton University.
2. ↑ It has been financed by the Friends of the Princeton University Library since it was founded in 1930.