Ruta Abolins, Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection

Ruta Abolins is the Director of the Walter J.Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of  Georgia Libraries. She has worked in moving image archives for the past 30 years. She currently manages a collection of over 350,000 analog audiovisual items and over 200,000 digital files with collections ranging from local news content to home movies to the Peabody Awards. She is a past board president of Cine, a non-profit cinema and arts space located in downtown Athens, Georgia. She recently completed a chapter on the history of the Peabody Awards Collection for a book tentatively titled The Archivability of Television edited by Lauren Bratslavsky and Elizabeth Peterson that will be published by the UGA Press later this year. She has a BFA in Filmmaking, an MA in Popular Culture, and an MA in Library and Information Studies.