• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Ransom Center Magazine

  • Sections
    • Art
    • Books + Manuscripts
    • Conservation
    • Exhibitions + Events
    • Film
    • Literature
    • Photography
    • Research + Teaching
    • Theatre + Performing Arts
  • Archive
  • Print Edition

About Joan Sibley

Sibley is an archivist in the Description & Access department who oversees retrospective conversion cataloging of manuscripts and archives from the card catalog to online finding aids. She also frequently works on grant-funded cataloging projects, such as the Delmas Foundation Performing Arts project and the National Endowment for the Humanities project to catalog the PEN Records.

Grant-funded cataloging project creates greater access to performing arts collections

November 30, 2017 - Joan Sibley

With support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Ransom Center has completed a one-year project to create online access to four of its Performing Arts collections.

[Read more…] about Grant-funded cataloging project creates greater access to performing arts collections

Filed Under: Featured1, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Eric Colleary, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, grant, Hillary Bell, John Gassner, Jule Styne, Wilson Barrett

Our year with J. Frank Dobie

September 25, 2015 - Joan Sibley

C. H. Dykeman, Photograph of J. Frank Dobie at his desk, 1959. Note the wooden roadrunner on his desk and the open file cabinet drawer showing folders of papers.

Thanks to support from the TexTreasures grant program of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the papers of Texas writer, folklorist, and educator J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) are now [Read more…] about Our year with J. Frank Dobie

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging Tagged With: archivist, Cataloging, Daniela Lozano, Dobie, Finding Aid, folklore, grant, Institute of Museum and Library Services, J. Frank Dobie, Joan Sibley, Life and Literature of the Southwest, southwest, Texas literature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, TexTreasures

Primary Sidebar

Archive

Tags

acquisition Alice's Adventures in Wonderland archive archives Art Books Cataloging Conservation Council on Library and Information Resources David Foster Wallace David O. Selznick digitization exhibition Exhibitions Fellows Find Fellowships Film Frank Reaugh Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive Gone with the Wind I have seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America Lewis Carroll literature Magnum Photos Manuscripts Meet the Staff Nobel Prize Norman Bel Geddes Norman Mailer Performing Arts Photography poetry preservation Publishing Research Robert De Niro Shakespeare theater The King James Bible: Its History and Influence The Making of Gone With The Wind Undergraduate What is Research? World War I

Recent Posts

  • The Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse
  • On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age
  • Ransom Center experience leads to new challenge
  • Films represented in the Drawing the Motion Picture exhibition
  • Celebrate with us in 2023

Before Footer

Sign up for eNews

Our monthly newsletter highlights news, exhibitions, and programs.

Connect With Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

About

Ransom Center Magazine is an online and print publication sharing stories and news about the Harry Ransom Center, its collections, and the creative community surrounding it.

Copyright © 2023 Harry Ransom Center

Web Accessibility · Web Privacy