Andrea Hinding
{{short description|American archivist}}
Andrea Hinding (born July 15, 1942) was an American archivist. She was an elected fellow of the Society of American Archivists, whose two-volume work Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States (1979) shaped the study of women's history and archival practices relating to sources about women over the following two decades.
Early life and education
Hinding grew up in the American Midwest, as the eldest child of a Danish father and Slovenian mother.{{cite web |last1=Chambers |first1=Clarke A. |title=Interview with Andrea Hinding |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/49811/1/hindingAndrea.pdf |website=University Digital Conservancy |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=15 December 2019 |date=October 14, 1994}}{{rp|2}} She began studying journalism at Marquette University, Wisconsin, before moving to the University of Minnesota in the early 1960s.{{rp|2}} In 1966, she graduated in history magna cum laude, and earned a master's degree in history in 1973.{{rp|2}}{{cite web |title=University of Minnesota Spring Commencement, 1973 |url=https://educationdocbox.com/College_Life/66243500-Spring-commencement-1973.html |website=Education DocBox |page=33 August |date=1973}}
Career
Hinding was the first staff person and later curator of the University of Minnesota Elmer L. Anderson Library.{{Cite web|url=https://www.continuum.umn.edu/2015/04/the-job-is-never-done-fifty-years-of-documenting-social-welfare-history-2/|title=The Job is Never Done:Fifty Years of Documenting Social Welfare History|last=Engebretson|first=Mark|date=2015-04-02|website=continuum {{!}} University of Minnesota Libraries|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-06}} She also wrote and edited books about archives and history, particularly women's history and feminism, sports and the YMCA. She also published articles through the Society of American Archivists' journal, The American Archivist, and is listed as an editor on many books, journals and directories.
Hinding's two-volume work Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States was described by Nan Robertson in the New York Times as "the bible of reference books in women's history".{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Nan |title=Women's lists - a way of catching up |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/131730360/?terms=%22Andrea%2BHinding%22 |access-date=14 December 2019 |work=The Des Moines Register |agency=New York Times |date=7 June 1981 |location=Des Moines, Iowa |page=4C}} It "shaped scholarship in women's history through-out the 1980s and early 1990s",{{cite journal |last1=Sachs |first1=Honor R. |title=Reconstructing a Life: The Archival Challenges of Women's History |journal=Library Trends |date=Winter 2008 |volume=56 |issue=3 |page=653 |doi=10.1353/lib.2008.0018 |hdl=2142/4600 |s2cid=14183359 |url=https://www.academia.edu/3783467 |access-date=15 December 2019|hdl-access=free }} and "caused many archivists to rethink the way they organized and described their holdings, eventually bringing to light countless women's materials hidden in the papers of husbands, fathers, and sons. It could no longer be asserted accurately that there were few resources for the study of women's history."{{cite journal |last1=Mason |first1=Kären M. |last2=Zanish-Belcher |first2=Tanya |title=A Room of One's Own: Women's Archives in the Year 2000 |journal=Archival Issues |date=1999 |volume=24 |issue=1 |page=41 |doi=10.31274/archivalissues.10877 |url=https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=speccoll_pubs |access-date=15 December 2019}}
Hinding was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1977,{{cite web |title=Members of Distinguished Fellows of SAA |url=https://mysaa.archivists.org/DynamicTemplate?id=a0O0b00000Z9BeSEAV¶m1=a0O0b00000Z9BeSEAV&renderAs=pdf&templateName=Committee+Roster |website=Society of American Archivists |access-date=14 December 2019}} and served on the executive council from 1975 to 1979 and as president from 1984 to 1985.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.archivists.org/node/9743|title=President Andrea Hinding {{!}} Society of American Archivists|website=www2.archivists.org|access-date=2019-12-06}} She was a longtime member of the Organization of American Historians and the Midwest Archives Conference, and served on the executive council of the former from 1977 to 1980.{{cite journal |title=Front Matter |journal=The Journal of American History |date=December 1978 |volume=65 |issue=3 |page=619 |jstor=1901415}}
She also served as University of Minnesota representative for women's issues on the Big Ten Conference in the mid 1970s.{{cite news |last1=Nichols |first1=Max |title='U' to make men's, women's athletics equal in 2-step plan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/190323982/?terms=%22Andrea%2BHinding%22 |access-date=15 December 2019 |work=The Minneapolis Star |date=30 May 1975 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |page=1}} In 1986, when several University of Minnesota basketball players were charged with sexual assault, she disagreed with university president Kenneth Keller's decision to set up a task force to study the issue, and stated that more decisive action, such as canceling the season or firing the athletic director Paul Giel, should have been taken.{{cite news |last1=Allen |first1=Martha Sawyer |last2=Meryhew |first2=Richard |title=Many at 'U' favor Keller plan, but not all |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/188671087/?terms=%22Andrea%2BHinding%22 |access-date=15 December 2019 |work=Star Tribune |date=28 January 1986 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |page=9}}
= Publications =
- Common bonds : a memoir in photographs of the University of Minnesota, 1997
- Proud heritage: a history in pictures of the YMCA in the United States, 1988
- Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints, 1986
- Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, Vols 1 and 2, 1979{{cite news |last1=Byrne |first1=Jo-Anne |title=New reference volume brings women's achievements to light |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/360480491/?terms=%22Andrea%2BHinding%22 |access-date=14 December 2019 |work=Leader-Telegram |agency=UPI |date=15 April 1980 |location=Eau-Claire, Wisconsin |page=6B}}{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Nan |title=Women's history gets boost from book |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/106347243/?terms=%22Andrea%2BHinding%22 |access-date=14 December 2019 |work=The Indianapolis Star |agency=New York Times |date=6 January 1981 |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |page=10}}{{cite news |last1=Meier |first1=Peg |title='U' survey reveals thousands of history's 'hidden' women |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/186806060/ |access-date=15 December 2019 |work=Star Tribune |date=5 March 1980 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |pages=1B, 10B}}
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Category:American women archivists
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