Faculty Profile
Clifford Mead is head of Special Collections at the Valley Library, a position he has held since 1986, when the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling papers first came to OSU. Previously, he served as rare books librarian in charge of special collections and also as acting director at Mason Library, Keene State College, New Hampshire. He has authored several publications, including Thomas Pynchon: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (1989). He has co-edited The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography (1996) and Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001). His most recent book, co-edited with Chris Petersen, is The Pauling Catalogue: Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers at Oregon State University (2006).