RANDALL SILVERMAN

Randy Silverman is the Head of Preservation at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, a faculty position he has held for over 30 years. His disaster planning work led to an invitation from UNESCO to participate in a workshop in 2006 called “Preservation and Access to Documentary Heritage in Asia and the Pacific” held in Cheongju, South Korea – his introduction to Korean early printing. Silverman has over 120 publications and has presented lectures or workshops in 33 states and 13 countries outside the U.S. He has received the American Library Association’s Banks-Harris Preservation Award (2013), a Fulbright Specialists award (2014), and the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Gardner Prize (2016).