DETROIT, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Richard Kollins has been elected chairman by the Board of Trustees of the National Automotive History Collection (NAHC).
Kollins succeeds Dr. Charles K. Hyde, who retired from the board after serving five years as chairman and 12 years as a trustee.
Kollins joined the board in 2010 and has served as its secretary since 2012. A graduate of Walsh College with a bachelor's degree in finance and master's degree in management, he has more than 30 years of international automotive manufacturing, assembly and management experience.
The board provides funding to the NAHC which is a special collection of the Detroit Public Library and the world's most extensive public archive of automotive information.
More than 32,000 photos from the NAHC are now available on the Internet. Online access to the historical photos is available on the Library's website http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org.
About the NAHC:
Located in the Detroit Public Library's Skillman branch at 121 Gratiot Avenue in downtown Detroit, it is open to the public by invitation and serves automotive journalists, authors, collectors, and enthusiasts. Its collections include over a million documents including books, magazine documents, business papers, photos, sales brochures, service manuals, and engineering specifications. More information about the NAHC is on the Library website at: http://www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/featuredcollection/national-automotive-history-collection.
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