Staff Profile Mrs. Anita L. Karg Archivist & Senior Research Scholar, Emerita anitakarg@aol.com

Anita began working at the Institute as the assistant archivist in March 1972 after obtaining a library science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Earlier, she had obtained her B.S. in general studies from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). She was appointed archivist in August 1988 and served in that capacity until retiring in January 2000. She has been named Archivist & Senior Research Scholar, Emerita, and will continue to work on special projects. As archivist, Anita collected biographical information and portraits of plant scientists. She developed bibliographies of these materials and replied to requests for information and portraits of natural scientists. She also organized, documented and preserved plant scientists' papers, letters, journals, oral histories and mementos and assisted researchers in the use of these materials. In addition to these curatorial and bibliographic duties, she contributed to catalogues of the department's holdings that include the Guide to the Botanical Records and Papers in the Archives of the Hunt Institute, Parts I–III and the Catalogue of Portraits of Naturalists, Mostly Botanists, in the Collections of the Hunt Institute, The Linnean Society of London and the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève, Parts I–III. She also assisted with the development of a biographical register of botany, which will document the contents of the Institute's master biographical file as well as the holdings of collaborating repositories and individuals throughout the world.