by Nicholas Glade
The Owls Head Transportation Museum is a unique institution; therefore, it needs an archivist willing to step up to a variety of tasks and challenges. Enter Sarah Dunne! As a head Archivist, she performs a wide …
Emily Drabinski: Advocacy is in Every Part of the Job
by Gina Cullen
Meet Emily Drabinski, Coordinator of Library Instruction
Emily Drabinski, the Coordinator of Library Instruction at LIU Brooklyn, grapples with a lot of logistics every day. They may take the form of analyzing the metrics of library …
Meet Genevieve Weber!
by Ariel BarnesÂ
In late September I spoke with Genevieve Weber, an archivist at the Royal BC Museum & Archives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She studied History at the University of Victoria and received a Master of Archival …
Meet Ben Maracle!
by Allyson Sekerke
Ben Maracle is the former Outreach & Operations administrator at The Howard Gotlieb Center. The Center is a Boston University archival repository that specializes in contemporary public figures, and Maracle began working at the Center shortly after …
Meet Sara Davis and the Olmsted Archives
by Emily Magagnosc
Sara Davis is the Digital Project Manager for the Olmsted Archives at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. As the Site is part of the National Park Service, outreach and public programming is essential and …
Rachel Seale, Outreach Archivist
by Jenny DeRocher
Rachel Seale has worked at Iowa State University Special Collections and University Archives as an Outreach Archivist for almost two years. She moved from Fairbanks, Alaska, where she worked for six years as an archivist at the …
Meet Deborah Richards!
by Julia Nee
Meet Deborah Richards, the Special Collections Archivist at Mount Holyoke College, a small liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts! A graduate of Simmons College with a MSLIS in the archives concentration, Deborah previously worked …
Jade Pichette, Volunteer & Community Outreach Coordinator
by S.S.
Meet Jade Pichette, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA). Although Pichette’s background in social work might make them an outlier in the archival field, they see this atypical professional experience as …
Get to Know Bill Barrow and the Cleveland Memory Project
Postcard from the Postcards of Cleveland Collection, part of the Cleveland Memory Project. Credit: Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University.
by Jessica Chapel
When Bill Barrow was a child growing up in Cleveland, an electric sign on the city’s …
Meet Andrew Elder!
by Julia Newman
Currently serving as the Interim University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass), Andrew Elder recognizes the importance of outreach and advocacy within the archival field. His entry into the archives …