NBS Bibliotalk Features David Hill, American Numismatic Society (ANS) Librarian

The latest episode of the NBS quarterly podcast, featuring ANS Librarian David Hill, is now posted. This wide-ranging interview, conducted by Lianna Spurrier, provideslisteners with an inside view of the ANS library, which has remained engaged during the COVID-19 shutdown. Hill covers his background as a historian and archivist and explains howhe came to succeed Elizabeth Hahn Benge as the ANS Librarian. Hill feels a kinship with previous ANS librarians and has written brief biographies of several of his predecessors inthe ANS Magazine.

This interview discusses a variety of ANS archival holdings, including the Virgil Brand ledgers and Chapman brothers' correspondence. More recently, ANS acquired papers ofDel Bland, Eric Newman, and George Kolbe. The Chapman correspondence in particular is currently being curated and scanned by Lara Jacobs under the sponsorship of Newman NumismaticPortal, and its organization and accessibility will be greatly improved as a result of this effort. Hill concludes with remarks about ANS library acquisitions, space, and scanningactivities.

To listen to the podcast on the NBS web site, see:
https://www.coinbooks.org/

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
BIBLIOTALK: THE COIN BOOK LOVER PODCAST (https://www.coinbooks.org/v22/esylum_v22n47a02.html)
NBS BIBLIOTALK PODCAST INTERVIEWS GEORGE KOLBE (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n10a02.html)