Member Profile

Miriam Kahn

Other Disciplines:

MBK Consulting

Business (Expert)
Disaster Response and Risk Mitigation Planning for Academic Institutions and Cultural Institutions. Loss prevention of access to intellectual resources on campuses and in businesses
Academic Support Services / Hybrid and Online Course Development (Advanced)
Incorporation and uses of social media to enhance asynchronous and synchronous course content delivery
Academic Support Services / Other Innovations or Emerging Technologies (Advanced)
Use of innovative and emerging technologies to deliver strategic information through the library to administrators, faculty, students, and librarians

Aldus Society - Book Collectors in Ohio
Member at large 08/2008 – Current
Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Member at large 09/2000 – 01/2020
Society of American Archivists
Member at large 01/1990 – 01/2019

Kahn, Miriam B and Karen Gracy. (January 2012). • “Preservation in the Digital Age: A Review of Preservation Literature 2009-2010” in Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS). (56 no. 1).
Kahn, Miriam B. (2012). Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries. Chicago: American Library Assocation.
Kahn, Miriam B. (June 2009). “Recycling Library Discards and E-Waste.” in TechKNOW. (15 no. 1).

Genealogy and Local History Research Methods (Fall 2018)
- Kent State Unversity – Genealogy, Local History
- This course teaches students to locate, analyze, and understand the various primary resources used by researchers in Local History and Genealogy. Librarians and Archivists are called upon more frequently to assist patrons in searching their family roots, and researching events and locations in their past. This course provides the tools to unders

Outstanding Teaching Award (08/2011)
Outstanding teaching award in School of Library and Information Science, College of Communication and Information
Phi Alpha Theta - Psi Chapter (12/2007)
History Honor Society inductee

• Reflections on Print & Digital Preservation: New Realities, 10/03/2012
The new reality of the longevity of physical and digital resources in our cultural institutions and how that affects technical services librarians