VCU Libraries Faculty Vita
Jodi L. Koste
Archivist and Head, Resources and Operations (Associate Professor)
Resources and Operations,
Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, 1-032
Email: jlkoste@vcu.edu |
(804) 828-9898
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
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
"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 (History 461-462), Virginia Commonwealth University 6 credit hours undergraduate.
Archives and Archival Administration (History 591), 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 to present.
Professional Organizations
American Association for the History of Medicine. Co-editor AAHM NewsLetter 2004-2009, 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 1998-99; Budget committee 2000. .
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference. Vice-Chair 1989-1993; Co-Chair Local Arrangements Committee 1979, 1985, 1994, 2001; Chair, Meeting C. 1977 to present.
Society of American Archivists (Science, Technology and Health Care Rountable). member of the Steering Committee, maintain HIPAA web page. 1989-present.
Collection Management Subject Areas
Tompkins-McCaw Library Special Collections.
Research Interests
History of Nursing, Civil War Medicine, Archival Education.