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Introducing our new Library Director!

Added 2022-01-19 14:00:07 +0000 UTC

Hi everyone, this will be announced publicly very soon, but we wanted to give you the early scoop, along with a little behind-the-scenes. We’re thrilled to announce that we have a brand new hire -- Phil Salvador has joined The Video Game History Foundation as Library Director!

Phil is an incredible historian and we've known him for many years. He's also an experienced librarian, managing several obscure and obsolete media types in his previous roles. He’s volunteered with The Video Game History Foundation on several projects, including spending a week with us in Minneapolis where he assisted in preserving Game Informer Magazine’s historical press materials.

(That's him, I promise!)

As Library Director, Phil plays a vital role in the management, system creation, cataloguing, and development of The Video Game History Foundation’s collection. His hire was met with unanimous board approval.

While we’ve been hard at work finding and preserving all kinds of materials, getting them organized and accessible has been left on the backburner. Adding a full-time librarian to the team has been a major goal of ours, and we’re excited to fill the role with someone passionate, knowledgeable, and committed. With tens of thousands of items in our archive both digitally and physically, there’s a lot of work to do, and we have full confidence that Phil is the right person for the job! He'll be working remotely for now and later relocating to California.

And to get a little sappy real quick: just one year ago today, we were entirely volunteer-run. We cut our very first paycheck in March of 2021, and now thanks to your support, we’re able to add a THIRD staff member to our full-time team. That's amazing!!! We can't thank you guys enough for supporting our work and helping us grow into the kind of organization that will last long, long after we're gone. We hope you'll join us in welcoming Phil to the VGHF team!

Bonus image from a few MAGFests ago. Frank doesnt know what a Scyther is but he was still very excited.