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Staff Biography

Mark Weimer

Mark F. Weimer


Bibliographer for Arts and Humanities
Research, Collections & Scholarly Communication
Bird Library

315.443.3874
mfweimer@syr.edu

Subject Responsiblities

  • College of Arts and Sciences

    English; Fine Arts; History; Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; Philosophy; Religion

  • College of Visual and Performing Arts

    Art and Design, Communication and Rhetorical Studies; Drama; Museum Studies; Transmedia

  • School of Architecture

Research Interests

  • Utopian and intentional communities -- particularly the Oneida Community and utopian fiction.

  • History of libraries and the preservation of books and manuscripts.

  • Monumental English brasses.

Biography

A graduate of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (M.A. Honours in modern European History and moral philosophy), Mark received his M.S.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University with a specialization in archival administration and rare book librarianship. His first professional position was as rare book cataloger in St. Louis at Washington University where he published Catalog of the Bernard Becker, M.D. Collection in Ophthalmology at the Washington University School of Medicine Library.

Since coming to Syracuse University in 1977, he served as rare book bibliographer and, later, curator of Syracuse University’s rare book and manuscript collections. Mark has also been director of the Belfer Audio Archive and principal bibliographer before taking on his current assignment. He is a former member of The Grolier Club of New York, a founding director of the Oneida Community Mansion House, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Onondaga Historical Association.

Awards, Publications, and Presentations

1999 “Treasures of the Library’s Special Collections” Lubin House presentation

1999 “Role of Special Collections in the Student-Centered University” Library Associates Program

1998 Named resources consultant to NEH-supported film development project on the history of the Oneida Community

1998 Elected to Board of Trustees, Onondaga Historical Association

1998 “Websites as Access Tools for Special Collections” Mid-America Archives Conference/Lake Ontario Archives Conference Annual Meeting

1996 Awarded Library Associates’ Post-Standard Award for Distinguished Service to the Syracuse University Library

1994 “Primary Sources: A Second Look at First Rate Teaching Tools” New York Library Association Annual Meeting program

1993 Syracuse University Library Associates Courier. Guest editor for Oneida Community issue

1990 Published Rudyard Kipling’s manuscript poem “Ballad of Bitterness” on the occasion of William P. Tolley’s 90th birthday

1987 “The William A. Hinds American Communities Collection,” Syracuse University Library Associates Courier (Spring, 1987)

1986 “My first Book – Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson,” Syracuse University Library Associates Courier (Fall 1986)

1986 Elected to membership in The Grolier Club, New York, NY

1986 “Sex and Gender Ideology at the Oneida Community” Moderator, 13th Annual Historic Communal Societies Conference

1985 Invited participant at Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson Center symposium on the history of the Oneida Community

1984 Promoted to rank of Librarian in the Syracuse University Library

1983 Named Historian to the Oneida Community and Editor of the Oneida Community Records Editorial Project

1983 Fellow, National Historic Publications and Records Commission Institute for Editing Historical Documents

1982 Keynote speaker at the Syracuse University Library’s Two-millionth Volume Celebration

1980 Published William Makepeace Thackeray’s Heroic Adventures of M.Boudin. Library Associates’s celebration of the 80th birthday of Chancellor Emeritus William P. Tolley.

1980-1986 “Administration of Special Collection” Adjunct Instructor for annual IST graduate course

1980-2000 Author of regular articles and notices published in Syracuse University Library Associates Courier.

1979 “Books and Their Owners” Library Associates Program

1978 Publication of Catalog of the Bernard Becker, M.D. Collection in Ophthalmology at the Washington University School of Medicine Library.

1975 Horncrest Foundation Grant in support of research project in Dublin, Ireland on the history of obstetrics and midwifery

1975 Jesse Hauk Shera Award (Case Western Reserve University) for greatest promise for future scholarly contributions to librarianship

1973 University Research Scholarship (University of St. Andrews) for doctoral work in 19th century English history

1967 English Speaking Union International Schoolboy Fellowship
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