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AMERICAN BAPTIST NEWS SERVICE 
Office of Communication  
American Baptist Churches USA 
P.O. Box 851, Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851 
Phone: (610)768-2077 / Fax: (610)768-2320 
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Richard W. Schramm, Director 
 E-mail: richard.schramm@abc-usa.org

NEW LIBRARY DIRECTOR APPOINTED FOR AMERICAN BAPTIST 
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  The American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS) has 
announced the appointment of Dr. Stuart W. Campbell as the 
new director of its Samuel Colgate Library in Rochester, 
N.Y., effective April 25. 
 Campbell will be responsible for the operation of the 
library, the largest and premier collection of Baptist 
materials in the world.  He brings to the position 18 years 
of experience as head of archival departments at Clark 
University and, more recently, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's 
Medical Center Archives.
 "I feel extremely fortunate to be able to hire someone 
with this quality and depth of experience," said Dr. Deborah 
Van Broekhoven, director of the ABHS.
 Campbell has worked closely with faculty to make rare 
books and manuscripts available to students, and with alumni 
to collect oral histories.  At both Clark University and 
Rush Medical School he helped research and organize 
centennial celebrations.  Recently he was the invited 
keynote speaker for the University of Illinois College of 
Medicine (Rockford) Research Forum.  He is a member of the 
Caxton [rare book] Club, the American Association for the 
History of Medicine, the Organization of American Historians 
and the Society of Medical History of Chicago, of which he 
was president 1997-1999.
 After graduating from Kenyon College Campbell 
completed doctoral work in history at the University of 
Delaware.  A Hagley Fellow, he holds certificates in 
archival and records management from the Modern Archives 
Institute and from Case Western and George Washington 
universities.  
 Campbell  has indicated an interest in enlarging the 
Samuel Colgate Library's Web site, as well as  participating 
in the intellectual and spiritual life of the Colgate-
Rochester/Crozer Divinity School (the seminary community in 
which the ABHS-Samuel Colgate Library is housed) and the 
American Baptist Churches of the Rochester-Genesee Region.

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