Carl Van Ness

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|field = Library Science

|work_institutions = University of Florida

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|known_for = Being the University of Florida archivist

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Carl Van Ness is the Curator of the Manuscripts & Archives Department in the University of Florida Libraries' [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ Special & Area Studies Collections] and was appointed the University Historian for the University of Florida in 2006.Mentioned in departmental meeting minutes, [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lfa/minutes/2006_04_17_MIN.html http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lfa/minutes/2006_04_17_MIN.html]. He followed the former university historian, Sam Proctor.

Prior to this position, Van Ness served as the University of Florida archivist from 1996 to 2006 and worked for the George A. Smathers Libraries.[http://facrl.fcla.edu/newsletter/uf8.html Background info] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719192250/http://facrl.fcla.edu/newsletter/uf8.html |date=July 19, 2011 }}

Van Ness authored The Making of Florida’s Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, published in 2023, in which he "traces the development of the schools that later became the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Florida A&M University."{{Cite book |last=Van Ness |first=Carl |title=The making of Florida's universities: public higher education at the turn of the twentieth century |date=2023 |publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=978-0-8130-6975-3 |location=Gainesville}}