VIRGINIA L. BARTOW, PRESIDENT

Virginia Bartow recently retired from The New York Public Library, where she held key roles in the Preservation and Cataloging Divisions, Rare Books and the Arents Collections, and Special Formats Processing. Her career in librarianship began in 1979 and includes tenures at Cornell University, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College prior to joining NYPL. Virginia holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Columbia University, where she studied in the rare books program, and an undergraduate degree from William Smith College in Geneva, New York. A dedicated member of APHA since her time in library school, Virginia attended her first annual conference in 1981. Her extensive service to APHA includes roles as Vice President of Membership, Board Secretary, and a multi-year term as Vice President of the New York Chapter. Virginia is an active member of the Grolier Club, serving on the Committee on Public Exhibitions and the Library Committee. She is also the Vice President and former Secretary of The Typophiles, and served on the board of the Center for Book Arts for nine years.

MICHELLE MCCARTHY-BEHLER, SECRETARY

Michelle McCarthy-Behler is Senior Manager of Public Services for Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books at the Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library. She is passionate about nurturing collaboration among teams and designing services that make special collections accessible to a diverse community of users. In addition to her professional work, Michelle is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research explores queer Holocaust history and lifewriting. When not working, she enjoys hiking, playing the cello, and spending time with her husband and two little girls.

JIM KUHN, TREASURER (SECOND TERM)

Jim Kuhn is Associate Director at the Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin and a seasoned leader in special collections. Jim has served as the Treasurer of APHA since January 2024, bringing extensive experience in institutional stewardship to the role. His background includes a long-term tenure as Treasurer for the Friends of the Takoma Park Maryland Library. Currently, he also contributes his financial expertise to the Finance and Stewardship Committee of the Friends Meeting of Austin. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and in library science, is a member of the Grolier Club, and has held appointed and elected positions in the American Library Association. He currently serves as board member of the Austin Book Arts Center, as board chair of the Texas After Violence Project, and as a volunteer mental health first responder in UT Austin’s Victims Advocate Network. Jim also participates in the Internet Archive’s “Great 78 Project”.

DIANE DIAS DE FAZIO, VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEMBERSHIP (SECOND TERM)

Diane Dias De Fazio is Library Services Manager for Rare Books & Special Collections at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Editor in Chief of RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, the scholarly journal of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. She has advocated for bilingual content in such journals and been instrumental in public engagement efforts of the APHA Board, on which she has served in roles including Trustee and Chair of the Award Committee. Her expertise as a curator spans manuscripts to ‘zines.

ALEXANDRIA MARIE POST, VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS

Alex Post currently serves as the Special Collections and Research Assistance and Instruction Librarian at San Francisco State University, a position she has held since February 2019. Previously, Alex was archivist with San Francisco State’s Labor Archives and Research Center, reference librarian at San Francisco Public Library, and archives and manuscripts librarian at Mills College in Oakland. Alex holds a BA in Comparative and World Literature from San Francisco State and an MLIS from San José State University. A dedicated member of the printing history community, Alex has been active in the Northern California Chapter of APHA and is a past president of the chapter.

TODD SAMUELSON, VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLICATIONS

Todd Samuelson (PhD, University of Houston) is the Associate Dean for Special Collections at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, where he leads forty archivists and curators in building and providing access to the Library’s manuscript, multimedia, and antiquarian print collections. Samuelson’s research interests focus upon the technologies of historical book production. At the Book History Workshop, a week-long intensive at Texas A&M University, Samuelson has served on the faculty since 2007. A letterpress printer and relief illustrator, Samuelson produces fine-press books and broadsides under his Fat Matter Press imprint, including the artist’s book Ferment (2023).

SETH GOTTLIEB, TRUSTEE

Seth Gottlieb is a mechanical engineer with a keen interest in the history of technology and printing. His research and personal collection focus on 19th-century American machinists’ tools, through which he explores the complex, evolving relationships between people and the technologies they create. Seth currently serves as a contract Collections Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Previously, he worked with the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he assisted in the preservation and maintenance of their historic printing presses.

ANA D. RODRÍGUEZ, TRUSTEE

Ana Rodríguez is the Digitization Coordinator and Registrar of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she oversees the digital transformation and stewardship of one of the nation’s most comprehensive textual collections. With over 24 years of experience in cultural institutions, Ana specializes in special collections, digital initiatives, and descriptive metadata. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Florida, where she earned a certificate in Latin American Studies and authored a thesis on Lorenzo Homar’s linoleum print “El Obispo de Ponce” from the Las Plenas portfolio. Ana also holds an MS in Library and Information Science and completed her undergraduate studies at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Mayagüez. Her research interests include Latin American graphic printing, the description of visual materials, and the development of digital collections.

AMANDA STUCKEY, TRUSTEE (second term)

Amanda Stuckey is an associate professor of English at Central Penn College. Her research focuses on the intersections of book history and disability studies, work that has been published in Printing History, Studies in American Fiction, Criticism, and American Periodicals, among others. Her co-edited collection of reflections and curriculum materials on integrating archival research into undergraduate classrooms is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. She is also completing a book project on the experiences of visually impaired readers before the standardization of braille in the United States. She received her MA from the University of Virginia and her PhD from the College of William & Mary.