Hartsook, curator of the library’s modern political collections since 1991, will replace Allen Stokes, who is retiring after a 31-year career with the library.

Hartsook will be responsible for administering the library’s operations, supervision of public services, acquisitions and preservation, and development. He also will serve as secretary/treasurer of the University South Caroliniana Society.

Hartsook earned a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s in history and archives administration from the University of Michigan. He began his professional career in 1979 as an archivist at the S.C. Department of Archives and joined the staff of the South Caroliniana Library in 1983 as curator of manuscripts.

While curator of modern political collections, Hartsook inaugurated the Ernest F. Hollings papers project and negotiated the acquisition of the papers of Butler Derrick, James Edwards, Lindsey Graham, Richard Riley, Mark Sanford, and John West.

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