Rosemary Pleva Flynn

Biography

Rosemary Pleva Flynn, C.A., Principal Librarian & Archivist, is responsible for the management and operation of the EERC Library. She is also the Library and Information Services Team Lead at the EERC, which includes, among other duties, overseeing the EERC's archives and records management program. Ms. Flynn is a Certified Archivist (C.A.) and an active participant in several professional organizations, including the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA), the Midwest Archives Conference, and the North Dakota Library Association. She has taught workshops for many of these organizations. Ms. Flynn was elected to serve as the ACA's Regent for Exam Administration (2019–2021). She is Chair of SAA’s Dictionary Working Group, which recently published the online Dictionary of Archives Terminology (https://dictionary.archivists.org). As the Academy of Certified Archivists representative to the Nexus LAB: Leading Across Boundaries project advisory board, she was a coauthor of the Nexus LAB: Layers of Leadership and an editor of the Nexus LAB: Curriculum. Ms. Flynn is an alum of the Archives Leadership Institute and received her Masters of Library Science (M.L.S.) degree from Indiana University, her M.A. degree in Social Science and B.S. degree in History from Ball State University, and a graduate capstone certificate in User Experience Design from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to her position at the EERC, Ms. Flynn served as Project Archivist at Indiana University for Phase II of the Indiana University Electronic Records Project.