Polina Ilieva

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). 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.