Betram Lyons – American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Bertram Lyons, certified archivist, works as a folklife specialist and digital assets manager with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Since 2002, he has served as archivist (and now consulting archivist) at the Alan Lomax Archive / Association for Cultural Equity in New York. He is a member of the Society of American Archivists (appointee to the Membership Committee, steering committee member for the Oral History Section and the Recorded Sound Roundtable), the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, and the American Association of Museums. Lyons publishes regularly on archival principles and practices and he presents research at professional and academic conferences, such as the Society of American Archivists, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. He received his Master’s degree in Museum Studies and American Studies from the University of Kansas.
OHDA Works
- Case Study: Designing a National Online Oral History Collecting Initiative: The Occupational Folklore Project at the American Folklife Center, Nancy Groce & Bert Lyons
- Designing a National Online Oral History Collecting Initiative: The Occupational Folklore Project at the American Folklife Center, Nancy Groce and Betram Lyons
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