Carl Van Ness Explained

Carl Van Ness
Nationality:	American
Field:	Library Science
Work Institutions:	University of Florida
Known For:	Being the University of Florida archivist

Carl Van Ness is the Curator of the Manuscripts & Archives Department in the University of Florida Libraries' Special & Area Studies Collections and was appointed the University Historian for the University of Florida in 2006.^[1] 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.^[2]

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."^[3]

External links

• Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future, book by Carl Van Ness and Kevin McCarthy; the book is openly and freely available in the UF Digital Collections.
• Newspaper article about Van Ness
• University Archives
• Alligator article about Van Ness
• University of Florida Archives Photo Collection in the University of Florida Digital Collections
• University of Florida Historical Marker Program
• The University of Florida Trivia Book by Carl Van Ness

Notes and References

1. Mentioned in departmental meeting minutes, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lfa/minutes/2006_04_17_MIN.html.
2. http://facrl.fcla.edu/newsletter/uf8.html Background info
3. Book: Van Ness, Carl . The making of Florida's universities: public higher education at the turn of the twentieth century . 2023 . University Press of Florida . 978-0-8130-6975-3 . Gainesville.