ARCHIVES 2017

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 digitizing... 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 a Digital Archivist at MIT Libraries. 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 →

Erin Hammeke is a Senior Conservator for Special Collections at Duke University Libraries. She received her MSLIS and Certificate of Advanced Study in the Conservation of Library and Archives Materials from the Kilgarlin Center at the University of Texas at Austin and received a BA... Read More →

Co-chair, International Archival Affairs Section. MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and PhD in history from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. DC based freelance historian and archivist. Draws on research on ethics of access to refugee records and archives. Digital Project... Read More →

Kathryn Hujda is the Curator of Manuscripts at the Minnesota Historical Society. She specializes in working with artist archives with a particular interest in collection donor relations.

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 has served as the Special Collections Archivist at Concordia University Library since 2014. She holds an MLIS from the School of Information Studies at McGill University and an MA in art history from Concordia University.

In addition to my work with oral histories and online resources, I coordinate our outreach and social media efforts on Twitter and Facebook. I've created a strategy for what we post and why for management, along with finding ways to include social media in my workflows and helping... 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 in the OSU Libraries since 1996. Much of his career has been devoted to exploring the life and work of Linus Pauling. He is also the director of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project, the largest oral history initiative ever conducted... Read More →

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 Archivist for the Washington State University 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... 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 State... Read More →

Jeni earned her MSI from the University of Michigan in 2006. She received her Digital Archives Specialist certificate in 2014. She has worked in both academic special collections/university archives and corporate archives. Jeni lives in Baltimore, Maryland, but "commutes" to Seat... Read More →

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.

Joshua Youngblood has been the Research and Outreach Services Librarian for the University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections since 2011. A graduate of Florida State University and a certified archivist, he is an active member of SAA, SSA, and ACRL.