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Martha O’Hara Conway

(she/her)

Martha O’Hara Conway is Director of the Special Collections Research Center in the University of Michigan Library. Martha has curated several exhibitions, including Storied Acquisitions: Highlights from the University of Michigan Library Collections, and authored or contributed to a number of publications, including The Practice, Power, and Promise of Archival Collections Assessment and Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections, which consists of a framework and a suite of tools that support the operationalization of an ethical, informed, and resource-sensitive approach to acquiring, managing, and caring for collections.