Faye Phillips is the owner of V F Phillips, an appraisal, archival services, and local history
research and publications consulting firm. She has performed appraisals for tax purposes of
historical manuscripts and artifacts for numerous individuals (references available upon request)
and organizations including: the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Stone Center for Latin
American Studies at Tulane University, “American Routes” at Tulane University, the St. Landry
Parish Clerk of Court, and the Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court. Phillips has also served as a
consultant to the special collections, archives and libraries of the University of Alaska –
Fairbanks, the University of Oklahoma, Tulane University, the Supreme Court Library of
Louisiana, and the Coca-Cola Company. She and her associates have provided archival services
to the American Society of International Law, the Louisiana Historical Association and private
families.
Faye Phillips was Associate Dean of Libraries at Louisiana State University from 2006
until January 2012 when she retired. From 1995-2006 she served as Associate Dean of Libraries
for Special Collections of the LSU Libraries. She worked in various other administrative
positions at the LSU Libraries Special Collections from 1986-1995. Phillips was promoted to
Librarian (full professor) in 1994 and named Professor Emerita upon her retirement. Phillips has
over thirty years of experience in academic libraries, special collections and archives. She has
also served as an archivist at the United States Senate; the National Archives and Records
Administration; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Troup County, Georgia
Archives; the Atlanta Historical Society; and as an archives staff member at Georgia State
University. She is the co-author of Baton Rouge, Arcadia Publishing, 2008 and Baton Rouge:
An Illustrated History, Historical Publishing Network, 2006; and author of Baton Rouge
Cemeteries, Arcadia Publishing, July 2012; The LSU Rural Life Museum and Windrush
Gardens: A Living History, The History Press, 2010; Congressional Papers: Collecting,
Appraising, Arranging and Describing, McFarland and Company, 1996; and Local History
Collections in Libraries, Libraries Unlimited, 1995. She is editor for the West Baton Rouge
Historical Association’s The History of West Baton Rouge Parish: People, Places, Progress,
September 2012. Phillips is presently under contract to LSU Press as author of a history of the
Louisiana State University marching band, 1893-2012.
Phillips is Past-President of the Society of Southwest Archivists, the Louisiana Archives
and Manuscripts Association and the Society of Georgia Archivists; and has served on numerous
committees for those organizations, the Society of American Archivists, and others. In 2009 she
was named a Fellow of the Society of Georgia Archivists and is a member of the Publications
Board. She served as a member of the Louisiana Historical Records Advisory Board, 19962011. Phillips was a member of the inaugural class of the Academy of Certified Archivists. She
is currently a member of the Louisiana Historical Association and Chair of the Archives and
Records Committee. She serves as a grant reviewer for many agencies, national and local. She
has served as project director for numerous state and national grants relating to archives,
libraries, preservation, local history, and digital libraries. She was honored with a 2006
Preservation Award by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana.
Phillips received BA and MA degrees in American History from Georgia State
University and a Masters’ of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Contact:
Faye Phillips
718 Bancroft Way
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
vfphillipsco@gmail.com
225-252-4554
http://www.vfphillipsco.com/