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Robert Lee Hadden

Lee Hadden, 2002
Lee Hadden, 2002

Robert Lee Hadden (born September 4, 1951 in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American librarian, reenactor and author.

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[edit] Librarianship

In the last thirty or so years, Lee Hadden has worked in a number of special libraries here and abroad. For a while, he has a special expertise in begining science libraries from scratch. He has worked in a Natural History Museum Library [1] in Raleigh, NC, as a "Curator of Information". His job there was to organize and catalog a small library collection which had never had a librarian before. Later, he began chemical and engineering library services from scratch at the manufacturing site of a pharmaceutical company, the Burroughs Wellcome Company in NC. He has started two libraries from scratch as a contractor in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, first at the Al Bahah General Hospital Library in Azir Province, and then at the King Khaled Eye Specialist Library in Riyadh, KSA [2]. In 1984, he worked as a non-appropriated fund librarian at Camp Page in Chunchon, South Korea, and at Camp Long in Wonju, South Korea. In 1985, he became the first medical librarian at the Regional Medical Center at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. In 1986, he began work as a science and engineering reference librarian at the Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, and later the Post Librarian at Aberdeen and Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. In 1989 he began work at the Computer Resource Center at the University of Michigan. In 1990, he became a physical science reference librarian at the US Geological Survey Library in Reston, Virginia. While there, he organized the Rare Book Collection, and the special "George F. Kunz Collection" of rare books on gems and precious stones, and studied the "Heringen Collection" of geological maps and reports captured from the Nazis at the end of World War II. He also worked with other library staff to organize a special educational outreach service to supply materials for earth science teachers K-12 as part of a special grant from the Secretary of the Interior. In 2004, Hadden began work as a physical sciences and engineering reference librarian at the Topographic Engineering Center[3], US Army Corps of Engineers, at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. He gave special reference and research service in the humanitarian efforts of the 3rd Marine Expeditional Forces during the 2006 earthquake in Yojarkarta, Java, Indonesia,[4] and landslide in Leyte, the Philippines.[5] Since 1995, Hadden has been active in the advisory board of the Cascades Public Library in Sterling, VA, and was an officer from 1996 through 2004. He has begun a new advisory board for the "Library Outreach Office", which, like the Cascades Library, is part of the Loudoun Public Library System [www.lcpl.lib.va.us]. From 2001-2005, Hadden also served as a member of the Loudoun County Board of Trustees for the county library system.

[edit] Life

Lee Hadden was born to minister (Disciples of Christ) William James Hadden, Jr. and Margaret Shumate, an elementary school librarian. Later, the Rev. William James Hadden, Jr. became an Episcopal priest, and later the Episcopal Chaplain at East Carolina University ([East Carolina University]) and the rector of Emmanual Episcopal Church in Farmville, NC. Hadden was born in Tennessee, but moved to North Carolina when he was seven, and attended Elmhurst Elementary School and Rose High School in Greenville. Lee Hadden currently lives in Sterling, Virginia with his wife, Eileen.

[edit] Education

In 1973, he graduated from University of North Carolina, receiving a degree in history. From 1971 to 1973, he attended an experimental school on Bonn, West Germany, called the Europaisches Institut, that was sponsored by East Carolina University. The school of about 40 American students was held in an old manor house on the Rhine River in Bad Godesbourg called "Haus Steineck". About two weeks each month was spent traveling and studying in other countries, such as Spain, England, Holland, Belgium, France, Russia, Austria, and of course, Germany. After returning back to the US and graduating from UNC, he attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina to receive a Master of Library Science degree in 1977. In 1980, he also received a bachelor of science degree from the University of the State of New York, now known as Excelsior College.

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History & Travel

  • Reliving the Civil War: A Reenactor's Handbook copyright 1996, 1999[6]
  • The Shamrock and the Fleur de Lys: The family histories of the William James Hadden and the Whitney Shumate Families 1990 Greenville, NC: Hadden Pub. Association
  • The Granite Glory- the 19th Maine at Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Magazine Issue 13 (1995)
  • The Deadly Embrace- The Meeting of the 24th Regiment, Michigan Infantry with the 26th Regiment, North Carolina State Troops at McPhersons's Woods, Gettysburg, July 1, 1863 Gettysburg. Issue #5, July 1991. ISBN: 0890294055.
  • "Recollections of the Civil War in the United States" by John Stikeleather editied by Lee Hadden for the Company Front, October 1993, pages 8-31. The Company Front is the newsletter of the Society for the Historical Preservation of the 26th North Carolina, Morganton, NC
  • A Night Spent in Prince Dracula's Ancient Castle Daily Reflector Greenville, North Carolina. February 23, 1975, page B5.
  • "Bibles and Bullets" 2003. Arm Chair General Magazine. [7]
  • "Lewis and Clark". 2003. Arm Chair General. [8]

Librarianship

  • “The Heringen Collection of the US Geological Survey Library" 2003 Geological Society of America. Abstracts. [9]
  • The USGS Library- a National Treasure 2003 [10]
  • Outsourcing Federal Library Resources 1998 Progressive Librarian, Issue #14, Spring 1998, pages 44-46
  • "An Appeal to Heaven (Raamatukogude Kaitsepuhakud: Library Patron Saints)" 1994 Raamatukogu [publication of the Estonian Library Association]. No. 6, 1994. Pages 26-29
  • "The George F. Kunz Rare Book Collection, US Geological Survey Library" 1999 Proceedings of the Geoscience Information Society Volume 30, Pages 123-146 [11]

Geology & Speleology

  • Adits, Caves, Karizi-Qanats, and Tunnels in Afghanistan: An Annotated Bibliography, 2004 [12]
  • The Geology of Liberia: a Selected Bibliography of Liberian Geology, Geography and Earth Science copyright 2006 [13]
  • The Geology of Guadalcanal: a Selected Bibliography of the Geology, Natural History, and the History of Guadalcanal, copyright 2007 [14]
  • The Geology of Somalia: A Selected Bibliography of Somalian Geology, Geography and Earth Science, copyright 2007 [15]
  • A Guide to the Geology of the Sinnett-Thorn Mountain Cave System, Pendleton County, West Virginia, 2006 [16]
  • “Saltpeter Mining In Sinnett Cave (Pendleton County, West Virginia) During The American Civil War copyright 2003. [17]
  • "Confederate Boys and Peter Monkeys" 2003. Arm Chair General.[18]

[edit] References

  • Finding Clues in Mountains of Paper: Sterling Man's Work for USGS Helps Military in Its Hunt for al Qaeda By Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, October 13, 2002; Page LZ03 [19]

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