ARCHIVES 2017

Erin Hammeke is a Senior Conservator for Special Collections at Duke University Libraries. She earned an MLIS and CAS in Conservation from UT Austin in 2007. Erin has also held internships at the Weissman Center at Harvard University and at the Pinos y Serriera Archives in Vilass... Read More →

Des Alaniz is pursuing her MLS degree at Simmons College. Des is active with student groups, including serving as Chair for the student-run DERAIL Forum at Simmons College last Spring. She also works with the Zine collection at the Simmons College Beatley Library and is digitizi... Read More →

Gina K. Armstrong is an archivist and librarian at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC). Prior to BSC, Armstrong served as an IMLS apprentice at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, where she concurrently completed a museum studies certificate at the University of Cinci... Read More →

Marci Bayer is an archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration. While she currently works in the accessioning office, she is a former military reference archivist.

Jenifer Becker is a librarian at Washington State University Vancouver, where she is pursuing her interest in student inclusion in the university archives. Jenifer holds a MLIS specializing in archival studies from UCLA and a BA in history from Knox College.

Joe Carrano is the National Digital Stewardship Resident at Georgetown University Library. He has an MA in History and an MLS with a specialization in Archives, Records, and Information Management from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Graduated in December 2016 with an MLIS from University of Maryland. She has worked at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives since November 2015 and is currently the Assistant Archivist. She worked on the migration of information into and creation of EAC-CPF records among other tasks... Read More →

Katharina Hering is the Archivist for the National Equal Justice Library, and active on the steering committee of SAA's IAARs. She holds a PhD in history from George Mason University, a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and a MA in political science and history from the Uni... Read More →

Kathryn Hujda is the Assistant Curator for Performing Arts and Literary Archives at the University of Minnesota. As Assistant Curator, she processes collections to ensure access, assists researchers, works with collection donors, and routinely engages the public.

Jennifer is a Preservation Specialist at the Library of Congress, where she works on the stabilization of large and unusual collections. She received her M.S.I. from the University of Michigan in 1999, and was a visual materials and recorded sound archivist before focusing on con... Read More →

Alyssa Loera is a digital services and technology librarian at Cal Poly Pomona. Her professional interests include digital libraries, imaging, intellectual property, conservation, preservation and digital content management.

Luke Menzies is currently a dual MLS/MA student at Indiana University. His fields of concentration are digital humanities, digital preservation, and Central Asian history. He also holds MA degrees in Slavic Linguistics and Islamic Studies.

Alexandra Mills is the Special Collections Archivist at Concordia University Library in Montreal. She holds an MLIS from the School of Information Studies at McGill University. Her research interests include teaching with archives; community partnerships and collaborations; and o... Read More →

Jane Monson is Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Northern Colorado Libraries. Prior to that, she worked at Truman State University and received her MLS at the University of Iowa.

She is manager of the EAC-CPF project implementation and supervising the migration of records. Also in charge of accessioning and cataloging new collections, the oral history collection, and coordinating outreach. She has an MLS in archives management from the University of Maryl... Read More →

Elizabeth Parker is the Project Archivist for the NHPRC funded project "Keeping on Track: Processing and Digitizing Railroad Collections at the Kheel Center" at Cornell University. Prior to that, Ms. Parker spent four years at the Newark Public Library's Puerto Rican Community Ar... Read More →

As the associate archivist at the Center for Creative Photography, Alexis is responsible for the organization, description, and preservation of the archival collections. She received an MSI degree from the University of Michigan School of Information (2014), and holds a BA in Art... Read More →

Chris Petersen has worked at the Oregon State University Libraries in Special Collections and Archives for over twenty years. During that time, he has focused primary on projects related to Linus Pauling as well as, more recently, the practice of oral history.

Derek Potts is an Archives Processing Assistant at DePaul University. As part of his work in DePaul Special Collections and Archives, Derek manages correspondence with prison inmates requesting copies of prisoner-made and prisoner-centric zines found in the Anthony Rayson zine co... Read More →

Trista Raezer-Stursa is the head of the North Dakota State University Archives. She has worked at the archives in various roles since 2012. She received an MLIS at San Jose State University, and previously worked at the Santa Clara County Archives and Santa Clara University.

Patrick completed his MLIS at Simmons College in 2016 after serving in the U.S. Army. He now works at Harvard University, where he combines his interest in natural history with his work as Community Manager for an IMLS-funded grant called Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literatu... Read More →

Robert Schimelpfenig is an Archives Specialist for the WSU Vancouver Library, Archives and Special Collections. His interest is in collaborating with local historical and cultural institutions to provide digital access to archival collections, training and assist in public progra... Read More →

Sara Seltzer is the Institutional Archivist at the Getty responsible for managing the current and historic business records of the J. Paul Getty Museum. She works with Museum staff to ensure their information needs are met and specializes in the Museum's institutional history.

Asako is the Archivist for University Records at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Library. She held various librarian positions previously. She earned an MLISc from UHM and currently is a student in the Master of Archives and Records Administration Program at the San Jose... Read More →

Jeni attended the University of Michigan for both her BA in Philosophy and MSI from the School of Information. She has worked in academic special collections/university archives as well as corporate archives. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, but "commutes" to Seattle.

Jane is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh and a Project Archivist for the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Jay Trask is Head of Archival Services at the University of Northern Colorado. Jay received his Master's in History with a focus on public history from Colorado State University in 2001 and his Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee... Read More →

Joshua Youngblood joined the Special Collections of the University of Arkansas Libraries in July 2011. He has recently presented nationally and internationally on K-12 outreach, institutional missions, and digital humanities partnerships. He is an active member of ACA, SAA, SSA... Read More →