Bond, Trevor James
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Contact information:
tjbond@wsu.edu or 509-335-6693
Dr. Trevor James Bond is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries.
Trevor Bond received his Master's in Library and Information Science with a specialization in Archives and Preservation Management and a Masters in Ancient History at UCLA. In 2009, he was promoted to the rank of Librarian IV/Professor. He completed his Ph.D. at WSU in the Department of History in 2017. His dissertation is titled, “Why should we have to buy our own things back?” The struggle over the Spalding-Allen Collection.
He is currently working on grants funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has presented widely at professional conferences and published articles on collecting and enhancing access to special collections. He received the Washington State Historical Society’s 2018 Charles Gates Memorial Award for his article "Documenting Missionaries and Indians: The Archive of Myron Eells." His article "Streaming Audio from African-American oral history collections" was selected as the outstanding paper, 2005 journal OCLC Systems & Services International Digital Library Perspectives and he was the recipient of the 2011 Eric Bell Learning Communities Excellence Award and the 2014 Student Entertainment Board Arts Excellence Award at Washington State University.
Recent Submissions
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Challenges and Leadership, the Tenure of WSU President Ernest O. Holland (1915-1945)
(3/29/2018)This poster will examine tumultuous events during the tenure of WSU’s longest serving President, Ernest O. Holland (1915-1945). The research is part of a newly commissioned publication, the Washington State University Press ... -
Why Should We Have to Buy Our Own Things Back? The Struggle over the Spalding-Allen Collection
(2017)In 1836, Henry Spalding and his wife Eliza joined Marcus and Narcissa Whitman on a mission to bring Christianity to the Indians of the Oregon Country. In 1846, Spalding acquired Nez Perce clothing, artifacts, and horse ... -
Documenting missionaries and Indians: The Archive of Myron Eells.
(Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 2016) -
The Hunt for Oregon Missionary Sources: Clifford M. Drury and His Enduring Archives Legacy
(Oregon Historical Quarterly, 2013)Having pieced together the story of collections development from archives across the region, archivist Trevor J. Bond argues that Dr. Clifford Drury played a significant role in the building of regional archives, influencing ... -
From Treasure Room to Archives: The McWhorter Collection and the State College of Washington
(Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 2011) -
Providing online access to historic films at the Washington State University Libraries
(Emerald, 2011)Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the procedures and methods developed at Washington State University to digitize and make accessible historic moving images. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the ... -
Compleat Angler Exhibit Materials
(2009-04-23)Documents, photographs, and other exhibit materials from the Compleat Angler. -
Conserving Early Modern Books
(2009-04-22)This project seeks to conserve more than 50 rare books printed before the year 1800 that were severely damaged by an untrained volunteer. We will conserve these books by employing modern conservation techniques and supplies. -
Filling the Treasure Room: Professor Carl Milton Brewster and the Development of Rare Book Collections at Washington State University, 1938-1950
(4/17/2009)With limited resources, but boundless enthusiasm, President Holland and a handful of faculty including Professor of Organic Chemistry, Carl Milton Brewster, set the foundation for Washington State University's Rare Book ... -
A dialog on teaching an undergraduate seminar in special collections
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009)Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a model for the collaborative teaching of undergraduates in special collections and demonstrates how providing students with the opportunities to work rare books ... -
Digital Archives: History 438/596
(2008-09)This small hands-on seminar will provide history students the opportunity to apply their research skills in the creation of an online digital archive. As part of the planning for this final project, we will examine nationally ... -
Audio Slide Show. 17th century alive Renaissance books give 1600s glimpse
(WSU Today, 6/5/2008)Along the dark hallways – in the vaults of Terrell Library - there are rooms where thinkers and artists of the Renaissance still seem to come alive. “It’s like being able to go back into a 17th century bookstore and browse," ... -
Developing and Sustaining the Northwest Digital Archives
(Journal of Digital Information, 2008-06)The Northwest Digital Archives is a union database of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids from institutions in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and Montana. The purpose of the NWDA is to make information about ... -
Conserving Early Modern Books
(3/28/2008)This session will describe grant-funded conservation work underway to treat damaged books printed before 1800 held in the department of Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). By utilizing modern conservation ... -
General Education 111 Section 25 Syllabus
(2008-01)During the course, we will take a comparative global approaching to examining world cultures from 1500 to the present. Through the careful reading of a variety of primary and secondary sources, we will examine a number ... -
Ephemera at the University of Oxford
(KWSU, 2008)In 2006, Trevor Bond visited Oxford University's Bodleian Library to conduct research on a form of printed material referred to as ephemera. Never meant to be preserved, ephemeral material is nevertheless collected and ... -
Vanished places: Silver Lake and The Tanglewood.
(Washington State Magazine, 2008)Silver Lake is the most fondly remembered spot on campus that isn't here anymore. The 1.6-acre man-made lake and The Tanglewood park that surrounded it were covered over in the late 1920s to make room for the Hollingbery ... -
Audio Slide Show. Historical Portraits
(WSU Today, 2008)In the rare books vault in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections of Terrell Library there is an extremely rare set of Civil War portrait books purchased by WSU in the early 1940’s. What makes each one of these ... -
The Unlikely Acquisition of one of the Rarest Books of the Twentieth Century.
(Easy Access Newsletter for the Northwest Archivists, 2007-12)