Paul Conway
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Biography
Paul Conway is Associate Professor Emeritus in the University of Michigan School of Information. His research and teaching focused on archival science, the digitization and preservation of cultural heritage resources, and the ethics of new information technologies. His funded research projects at Michigan included developing a model of expert user interaction with large collections of digitized photographs, measuring the quality of large scale digitization as represented in the HathiTrust Digital Library, and understanding the complexities of providing digital access to collections of original live audio recordings, including the Leo Sarkisian Music Time in Africa Archive and the David Siglin collection of live recordings from The Ark in Ann Arbor. Prior to joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2006, he was an archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration and a senior administrator for the libraries at Yale University and Duke University.
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Honors & Awards
Ernst Posner Award Special Citation, Society of American Archivists, 2020
Research Fellowship, New York Public Library, 2016
Jesse H. Shera Award, ALA, 2014
Hugh A. Taylor Prize, Association of Canadian Archivists, 2012
UM Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize, 2011
Ernst Posner Award, SAA, 2011
Michael D. Cohen Outstanding Service Award, 2008
Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award, ALA, 2005
Distinguished Fellow, Society of American Archivists, 1997
Education
Ph.D., Archival Studies, University of Michigan, 1991
M.A, History and Archival Studies, University of Michigan, 1980
B.A, History, Indiana University, 1975
