Greg Williams, MFA

Title: Director, Archives and Special Collections

Department: University Library

Office: LIB G-141
Phone Extension: x3013
Email Username: gwilliams

Show All Publications Selected Presentations and Exhibitions Grants

Publications

Williams, Gregory L., California State University, Dominguez Hills, Charleston, SC, 2010.
Williams, Gregory L., Approx. 45+ CSU Archives Finding Aids published on the Online Archive of California , 2005-2006.
Williams, Gregory L. (Photograph Editor), “ San Diego : A Modern History, ” by Andrea Naverson. Carlsbad , CA : Heritage Media, 2004.
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Williams, Gregory L., “Filming San Diego: Hollywood 's Backlot, 1898-2002,” Journal of San Diego History , Spring, 2002. Authored entire issue.
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Williams, Gregory L., “Photograph Essay from All in a Day's Work, an Exhibition,” Journal of San Diego History , Spring/Summer 2000.
Williams, Gregory L., “ Southern California Water Sports: Surfing, Skiing & Swimming ,” a postcard book, San Diego Historical Society, 1999.
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Williams, Gregory L., “ Weird San Diego,” a postcard book, San Diego Historical Society, 1999.
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Williams, Gregory L., “ San Diego: Across the Century, ” a calendar, San Diego Historical Society, 1999.
Williams, Gregory L., (Photograph Editor) “ Balboa Park, A Millennium History ” by Roger Showley, Carlsbad , CA : Heritage Media, 1999.
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Williams, Gregory L., “Guide to the Photograph Collections of the San Diego Historical Society,” Journal of San Diego History, 1998.
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Williams, Gregory L., "Buyer Beware, Consumers' Research Records," Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, 1996.
Williams, Gregory L., (transcription and annotation) “A Journal of Our Pilgrimage to the Northern Neck (of Virginia) by Robert Randolph Carter, 1886.” Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine , December, 1995.
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Williams, Gregory L., Guide to the Records of Consumers' Research , Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives, 1995.
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Williams, Gregory L., Buyer Beware: Consumers' Research & the Consumers Movement, 1926-1980 . Exhibition Catalog, Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives, 1995.
Williams, Gregory, "Guide to the Manuscripts of Shirley Plantation," Published in Records of Antebellum Southern Plantation . Series K, Selections from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library , Bethesda , MD : University Publications of America , 1994. Microfilm & printed summary.
Williams, Gregory L., "Guide to the Manuscripts of Shirley Plantation," Published in Southern Women & Their Families in 19th Century-Papers & Diaries. Series B . Bethesda MD: University Publications of America , 1994. Microfilm & printed summary.
Williams, Gregory L., and Parris, L. Eileen, Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation . Colonial Williamsburg . 1993. Won MARAC Finding Aids Award, 1994.
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Williams, Gregory L., Early American History Research Reports . Chadwyck-Healey microfiche publication, 1992.
Williams, Gregory L., (Compiler) Colonial Williamsburg Research Collections in Microform, A Guide , University Publications of America , 1991. LC# Z1346.W55C65 1992 F234.W7.
Williams, Gregory L. Guides and finding aids published online for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (1989-1992).
Williams, Gregory L., "Procedures," (fiction). Columbia (SC) State Magazine , South Carolina Fiction Project, April 1987. Reprinted in Inheritance: Selections from the South Carolina Fiction Project , edited by Janet Turner Hospital . Spartanburg , SC : Hub City Writers Project, 2001.
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Selected Presentations and Exhibitions

Exhibition Curator, “Olympic Velodrome at CSUDH: An Olympic Tradition, 1984-2004.” CSUDH/Home Depot Center: ADT Events Center , 2004. (Velodrome in CSUDH Digital Collections)
Conference Presentation, “Jump Starting an Archives: the CSUDH Experience,” Society of California Archivists, May 2007.
Community Presentation, “CSUDH History Collection,” Questing Heirs Genealogy Group, Long Beach, 2006.
Community Presentation, “History of the San Diego Historical Society Photo Collection,” Darkroomers Photo Club, 2003.
Exhibition Curator, “Filming San Diego: Hollywood 's Backlot, 1898-2002,” San Diego Historical Society, 2002-2004. After a two and one-half year run this exhibit was reassembled and traveled to the San Diego County Fair in June-July, 2005. Estimated foot traffic at the Fair was one million visitors.
Exhibition Programming, 20+ slide shows, talks, television appearances, panel discussions, film showings, and curator tours for Filming San Diego: Hollywood's Backlot , 2002-2003.
Film Presentations. Supplied research and assisted with production of two films and 4 interactive kiosks for Filming San Diego : “ San Diego 's Silent Film Era” (9 minutes produced by KPBS) and “Filming San Diego ” (22 minutes) narrated by Cliff Robertson, and produced by Four Square Productions. This film won a local American Marketing Association (AMY) award.
Exhibition Curator, “Faces of San Diego .” Collaborative Exhibition with the San Diego Historical Society and Mesa College , Fall 2000.
Exhibition Curator, “Weird San Diego: America 's Finest Oddities.” San Diego Historical Society, May 2000-Feb. 2001.
Exhibition Curator, “Antony di Gesu: A Retrospective: Portraits East and West.” San Diego Historical Society, 1999
Exhibition Curator, “San Diego : All in a Day's Work,” San Diego Historical Society, August 1998-Dec. 1999.
Exhibition Curator, New Jersey Works,” New Jersey Historical Society, Jan. 1997.
Invited Presentation, "Consumers' Research Attempts to Destroy Consumers Union ." Consumers Reports Headquarters, Yonkers , N.Y. October 1994.
Exhibition Curator, “Buyer Beware, Consumers' Research and the Consumers Movement,” 1926-1980. Rutgers University Libraries, 1995.
Exhibition Presentation. "Buyer Beware," Rutgers University , 1995.

Grants

CSUDH Associated Students. CSUDH Photo History Digitization Project, 2006-2007. ca. $31,000. Also, various other ASI/Library Grants.
National Historical Records and Publications Commission (NHPRC). CSUDH. Early Los Angeles/Rancho San Pedro History Cataloging Project, 2004-2006. $89,000.
Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA). California Border Region Digitization Project, San Diego Historical Society, 2003. $50,000.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). San Diego Newspaper Photographers Project, San Diego Historical Society, 2003. $170,000.
National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). Four film preservation grants preserving over 15 films, San Diego Historical Society 2000-2002. $20,000+
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). California Explores the Ocean. Collaborative digitalization project between the University of California , San Diego and the San Diego Historical Society, 2001-2002. ($213,000). Wrote and directed SDHS portion of the project. http://ceo.ucsd.edu/
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). San Diego Photographers Cataloging Project, San Diego Historical Society, 2000-2002. $89,000.
San Diego Gas & Electric Company. SDG&E Photograph & Film Collection Project. Two grants. San Diego Historical Society, 1999-2000. $19,000.
Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, 1999-2000. Two grants, San Diego Historical Society. $10,000.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). New Jersey Economic & Social Transformation Collections Project. New Jersey Historical Society. Wrote first draft of this grant in 1997. It was funded in 1999. $188,220.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Health Care Collections Cataloging Project, New Jersey Historical Society, 1997. $41,000.
New Jersey State Library. Archival Preservation/Re-housing Grant , New Jersey Historical Society, 1996. $15,000.
Mellon Foundation. Photographic Collections Project, New Jersey Historical Society, 1995. $425,000

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