Distinctive and Academic Collections

Erika Hosselkus has spent more than a decade working in the academic core of higher education; she became the associate university librarian for the Scholarly Resources and Services division in August 2023.

As chief of the Scholarly Resources and Services division, Hosselkus leads Hesburgh Libraries’ largest division of faculty and staff. Her portfolio includes research collections, special collections and archives, public and user services, metadata, and preservation. She oversees partnerships and services that support Notre Dame’s commitment to providing an elite undergraduate education, its growing emphasis on rigorous graduate education, and research on and beyond campus.

Prior to her associate university librarian appointment, Hosselkus served as strategic planning implementation project manager and special collections curator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino/a collections. She is also a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Hosselkus joined Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries in 2016 as a Rare Books and Special Collections curator, developing a world-class Latin American collection for this fast-growing area of study. Since then, she has taken on expanded roles in the Libraries and created partnerships in teaching and learning across campus.

She has collaborated with Notre Dame faculty to connect students with rare books and manuscripts and teaches courses on Spanish paleography and the history of collecting. She has also curated several major physical and digital exhibitions of Latin American and early modern European materials, making Hesburgh Libraries’ distinctive collections accessible to campus and a global research community. She served on the University Committee on Women Faculty and Students and, most recently, was a member of the Hesburgh Libraries Strategic Planning Liaison Team, which developed the Libraries’ new strategic framework.

Before joining Notre Dame, Hosselkus served as an associate professor of history with tenure and coordinator of Graduate Studies and Latin American Studies at Southeast Missouri State University.

Hosselkus holds a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Her current research interests include strategic planning in academic research libraries, the development of print culture in colonial Latin America, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories of collecting and exhibiting. Her most recent publication explores the origins and movements of components of the Hesburgh Libraries’ impressive José Durand Peruvian History Collection.

Rachel Bohlmann is American History Librarian and Curator of North Americana. She is the subject specialist for American history, American Studies, journalism, and Gender Studies. She has an undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University; an MTS in religion from Harvard Divinity School; an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and PhD in American history from the University of Iowa.

As head of the Libraries’ services to preserve access to physical collections in support of teaching and research, Liz leads unit staff and collaborates with colleagues across the Libraries and campus to assess vulnerabilities, weigh priorities, and implement strategic preservation solutions. Liz holds an MLIS with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Library and Archives Conservation from the University of Texas, an MS in Mental Health Counseling from Indiana University, and a BA in English Literature with a Peace Studies minor from the University of Connecticut.

Peggy Griesinger is a faculty librarian and head of the Metadata Initiatives Unit in the Metadata Services Program. Peggy and her team leverage their combined expertise to describe and make accessible the Libraries' resources. They are responsible for complex metadata work, implementation and maintenance of controlled vocabularies, and metadata stewardship and governance. Their work includes subject analysis and authority work, original descriptive and specialized cataloging, digital collection metadata description, metadata design, crosswalk development, metadata transformation, and support for assigned OCLC services.

Peggy has an M.L.S. and a B.A. in Classical Studies, both from Indiana University Bloomington.

As Head of Archival Collections and Management, Patrick sets policy and provides oversight for the way the Libraries arrange, describe, manage, provide access to, and facilitate discovery of its rich archival and special collections holdings across the departments of Rare Books & Special Collections and University Archives.

As the Political Science and Peace Studies Librarian, Mark Robison works with students and faculty in the Department of Political Science, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Keough School of Global Affairs, and elsewhere on campus, to support their research. To connect these students and faculty to the information they need, Mark provides research consultations and delivers library instruction sessions. Mark is responsible for the development and management of the political science collection. He also serves as one of three Scholarly Resource Assessment Librarians. His research interests include student outreach, transfer student success, and "libraries of things."

Mark also serves as the interim head of the Collection Strategy and Acquisition which works collaboratively to implement innovative, data-driven assessment approaches to effectively steward the material acquisitions budget..

As Assistant Archivist for University Records, Matt Wilken manages the physical transfer of paper-based university records to the University Archives in accordance with the University's records retention schedule. Matt serves on the records management team and offers guidance based on principles of life cycle management of university records. He manages collection space for university records for both onsite collection space and the offsite storage facility and ensures that access to university records are in line with state and federal regulations, University policies and unit guidelines. Matt also supports staff colleagues, faculty, and other campus departments in outreach, reference and research projects.