Polina Ilieva
AUL for Collections-Archivist
Library
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Since February 2012 when she was appointed the UCSF Archivist Polina E. Ilieva has been managing the UCSF Archives and Special Collections (this department consists of Special Collections that includes materials in all formats on the history of the health sciences and ancillary disciplines, the University Archives and Manuscript Collections).

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Polina started working at the UCSF Library in 2006, for five years she was a Project Archivist for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) at UCSF processing and indexing tobacco industry audio-visual materials. Prior to that Polina worked as a reference librarian and processing archivist for the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty collections at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University where she was also in charge of the archival web and digitization projects. She worked on the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) funded project to arrange and microfilm the San Francisco Museum of Russian Culture archival collections.

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• UCSF Archives&Special Collections Blog (blogs.library.ucsf.edu)

Publications (6)

• Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic 2021 Ammann, Arthur; Brown, Shan-Estelle; Burnett, Paul; Clement, Elizabeth Alice; Gerber, Lynne; Ilieva, Polina; Levy, Jay A.; Volberding, Paul.
• The San Francisco Model of Documenting an Epidemic: Democratizing AIDS history through Digitization
  Archival Outlook 2020 Polina Ilieva, Emily Lin
• Data dreams: planning for the future of historical medical documents
  J Med Libr Assoc. 2018 Lorraine Dong, Polina Ilieva, Aimee Medeiros
• The Robert L. Day Collection: Bringing to Life UCSF School of Pharmacy History
  "Archival Elements," the newsletter of the Society of American Archivists Science, Technology, and Health Care Roundtable 2013 Polina Ilieva, Kate Tasker
• From Vault to User's Screen: Using Video-casting and Video-sharing Technologies for Universal Access, Outreach, and Publicity for the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library Multimedia Collection
  The Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience 2009 Polina Ilieva
• The Philippines as Home: Settlers and Sojourners in the Country
  The Refugee Camp in Tubabao: The First Philippine Experience in International Humanitarian Assistance. 2001 Polina Ilieva