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Francis X. Blouin Professor, and Director of the Bentley Historical Library
AB, Notre Dame; MA, Ph.D. in history, University of Minnesota
(734) 764-3482 (Bentley)
| 404C West Hall (also the Bentley Historical Library)
E-mail: fblouin@umich.edu
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| Specialization(s): ARM
Francis X. Blouin, Jr., is a professor in the School of Information and a professor in the Department of History. He is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists. Since 1981, Blouin has served as the director of the U-M's Bentley Historical Library. The Bentley Library houses the archives of the University of Michigan and the principal historical collections of the State of Michigan.
Blouin is interested in a wide variety of archival issues particularly from an international perspective. His most recent work, Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to the Historical Documents of the Holy See, presents the first-ever conceptual overview of papal archival records. For this volume he received grants from the Getty, Mellon, Lilly, and Homeland foundations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The results are online and have been published by Oxford University Press.
Blouin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources, a "think tank" based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on a broad array of issues related to libraries, archives, and information technology.
Blouin has also lectured widely on archival issues throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He organized a special year-long Sawyer Seminar on fundamental issues relating to the nature, structure, and politics of archival collections and institutions within a context of rapid technological change. The proceedings of those seminars have been published as Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G Rosenberg (eds.) "Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory." Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2006.
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