On April 15th, the Department of Special Collections and Silicon Valley Archives welcomed Becky Gordon as the new Dolby Media Archivist. The year-and-a-half term position is funded by a gift from the Dagmar Dolby Family Fund to process the personal papers of pioneering sound engineer and founder of Dolby Laboratories, Ray Dolby, and to make the collection available for research through the creation of a finding aid and development of an online exhibit.
A film and media scholar, Becky has lectured in Cinema Studies and worked in institutional settings with a focus on audio and visual media preservation. She completed an audiovisual internship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art and was the Systems Manager for the Sara Gómez Film Restoration Project with the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Complimenting Becky’s media preservation background is her project experience in archives including, working with the Northwest Native Art historian Bill Holm’s papers at the Burke Museum at the University of Washington and as an Engineering Records Aide with the Seattle Public Utilities Engineering Records Center.
Becky will make a great addition to our Special Collections team, and we are excited to have her begin work on making the Dolby history of audiovisual technology available to researchers. Please join us in welcoming Becky to Stanford University Libraries.