Steven Mandeville-Gamble

Steven Mandeville-Gamble received his MLIS from UC Berkeley's School of Library and Information Sciences in December 1991 and has worked as a librarian and archivist in a variety of institutions and repositories since that time, including the United States Senate as a records specialist on the Senator Alan Cranston Papers Project (1991-1992), the Local History Room of the Redwood City Public Library (1992-1994), and Stanford University (1994 - the present), where he is the Principal Manuscripts Processing Librarian and Assistant Head of Special Collections. At Stanford University, he became an early implementer of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) in 1996, and has overseen the successful conversion of 100% of the guides to Stanford's manuscript holdings to EAD, representing some 28,000 pages of text. He currently is involved in planning how to adapt the database tools that he developed for the EAD-encoding so that they can also be used to successfully encode digital objects derived from Special Collections materials into the METS metadata standard.