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Melissa Mannon is a professional archivist with 15 years of experience in the library and archives fields. Her work with museums, libraries, historical societies, town governments, and private collections gives her a unique perspective when engaging clients from diverse backgrounds. She posesses a graduate degree in library science with a specialization in archives management from Simmons College in Boston Massachusetts. Ms. Mannon has consulted for libraries, archives, historical societies, towns and museums since 2000. She has worked with the following towns and agencies:

Massachusetts

- Carlisle Historical Society
- Essex National Heritage Commission
    Beverly Historical Society
    George Peabody House
    Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore
    Lynn Public Library
    Marblehead Arts Association
    Stephen Phillips Trust House
    Town of Essex
    Andover Historical Society
- Gardner Museum
- Massachusetts Moderators Association
- Lancaster Historical Society
- Shirley Historical Society
- Topsfield Historical Society
- Town of Lexington
- Westminster Historical Society
- Winchester Historical Society

New Hampshire

- Francestown Historical Society
- New Hampshire Local Records Education Project through Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)
    Auburn Free Public Library
    Center Harbor Historical Society
    Hudson Historical Society
    Nesmith Library, Windham
    Town of Gilford
    Town of Merrimack
    Town of Peterborough
    Town of Richmond

Before becoming a consultant, Ms. Mannon served as the archivist of the Waltham (Massachusetts) Public Library where she reorganized the local history collection and established an Archives that meets professional archival standards. In Waltham, she worked to establish a collaborative relationship with the town government to secure the public documents of Waltham. As archivist of the public libary, she worked with the Federal Archives and Records Center in Waltham to promote the care of historical records. She also served as a reference librarian and the first Waltham Public Library Internet Coordinator. In this capacity she created the first web pages for the institution.

After her work in Waltham, Ms. Mannon accepted a position as head of reference and adult services at the public library in Milford New Hampshire. Here she helped fulfill local residents' information needs, redeveloped the library's web pages, ran young adult services, and created finding aids for the local history/archival collections. Ms. Mannon performed a survey of the Town of Milford's records to help them ensure their safekeeping.

Ms. Mannon started Archives and Information Consulting Services primarily to encourage collaboration among diverse types of institutions collecting archives. Her work to date has assisted mainly non-archivists who are charged with caring for historical records in addition to their other responsibilities. She has worked with curators, librarians, educators, town clerks, church groups, volunteers, and the general public to educate them about the needs of the archives in their custody.

Ms. Mannon is an experienced presenter and welcomes the opportunity to speak or teach about archives, research, and reference and young adult services. See here for a list of available presentations and classes.

Ms. Mannon is a published author and has written in the fields of archives, history, art history, and photography.

In addition to her archives and library work, Ms. Mannon is an award winning photographer. For more information about her art see Melissa Mannon Photography

Melissa Mannon • Bedford, NH • 603-661-7611 • melissa@mannon.org