VCU Libraries Faculty Vita
Jodi Koste
University Archivist and Head, TML Special Collections and Archives
(Associate Professor)
TML Special Collections and Archives
Room 1-032, Tompkins-McCaw Library
(804) 828-9898
jlkoste@vcu.edu
Education
B.A. History, Old Dominion University, 1976
Previous Professional Experience
Library Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1978-1981
Assistant to the University Archivist, Old Dominion University, 1976-1977
Publications
"Medical School for a Nation: The Medical College of Virginia, 1860-1865," in Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine edited by James M Schmidt (Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press,2009)
Koste. Virginia Commonwealth University (Ray Bonis, Jodi Koste, and Curtis Lyons). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Koste. "John Peter Mettauer." American National Biography 15: 390-391 (1999).
Koste. "Frank L. Apperly, Mary Baughman, Richard Bohannan, Lewis Chamberlayne, Lucious Chandler and Claude C. Coleman." Dictionary of Virginia Biography 1-3 (1998-2006).
Koste. "Rosa Van Vort" in Jewish Women in America: a Historical Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Koste and Lynne U. Turman, Andrea S. Horne and Claire E. Hoffman. "New Role for the Clinical Librarian as Educator." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 16 (Spring 1997): 15-23 (1997).
Koste. "Hospitals" in Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Presentations
“Effects of the Civil War on Medical Education in the South.” Museum of the Confederacy Seminar, Binding the Wounds, 1861-2010, March 27, 2010.
"Deception, Dissection, and Resurrection: Anatomical Instruction in 19th Century Virginia." University of Virginia Medical Center Hour Lecture Series 1 October 2008.
"The Virginia Nursing Hall of Fame, Class of 2005." Virginia Nurses Association Biannual Convention. 2005
"A Century of Service: The Virginia Board of Nursing and its 100 Members". Virginia Board of Nursing Centennial Gala. 2003
"VIVA EAD: The Virginia Heritage Project's Distributive Approach to Teaching EAD." 66th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. 2002
"The Virginia Nursing Hall of Fame: A Virtual Memorial for Great Nurses." Virginia Nurses Association Centennial Gala. 2001
"'Canker' or Boon?: Antebellum Virginia and the Magnet of the Philadelphia Medical Establishment." Frances C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1995
"Archives: the Bones of the Institution". Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, 1995
Teaching Experience
Archival and Historical Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, 6 credit hours undergraduate
Archives and Archival Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University, 3 credit hours graduate
Archives and Society (HISP 303), Mary Washington College, 3 credit hours undergraduate
University Committee Work
Heritage Room Committee, School of Nursing, 2005-present
Heritage Committee, School of Pharmacy, 2011-present
Professional Organizations
American Association for the History of Medicine, Secretary 2011-2013
- Co-editor AAHM NewsLetter 2004-present
- Local Arrangements and Program Committee for the 1997 Annual Meeting
Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences, Past-President 2004-2005; President 2002-2004
- Co-editor of The Watermark 1993-1998
- Program and Local Arrangements Coordination 1997
- Long Range Planning Committee 1998-1999
- Budget committee 2000
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Vice-Chair 1989-1993
- Co-Chair Local Arrangements Committee 1979, 1985, 1994, 2001, 2007, 2012
Society of American Archivists
- Science, Technology and Health Care Rountable
- Steering Committee, maintain HIPAA web page, 1999-present