Writings on archives & library issues

The “‘One of our largest constituencies’: NARA, genealogists, and ‘making access happen’,” paper listed here may be reworked into an academic article in the future, so it has not, yet, been published.

Issues And Advocacy

• “Archivists on the Issues: “Sensitive documents”, NARA’s role in declassification, and contested spaces,” Issues & Advocacy, TBA
• “Archivists on the Issues: The Collector, Indigenous repatriation, and archival ethics,” Issues & Advocacy, May 8, 2023
• “Archivists on the Issues: Mass document shredding in ‘Kiff’ and the reality of record destruction,” Issues & Advocacy, Apr. 8, 2023
• “Archivists on the Issues: Fictional Archivists Out in the Open,” Issues & Advocacy, Mar. 7, 2023
• “Archivists on the Issues: Classified Records, Archives, and Fictional Depictions,” Issues & Advocacy, Feb. 7, 2023
• “Archivists on the Issues: Sophisticated Bureaucracies, Archives, and Fictional Depictions,” Issues & Advocacy, Jan. 6, 2023
• “Archivists on the Issues: Popular Culture and the Presence of Archival Limits,” Issues & Advocacy, Dec. 6, 2022
• “Steering Share: Digging Into the FamilySearch Inmate Indexing Program,” Issues & Advocacy, May 27, 2022
• “The fate of history in the balance: The Seattle Federal Records Center still under threat,” Issues & Advocacy, Mar. 8, 2021
• ““Far-reaching impacts”: Why the closure of NARA’s Seattle facility still matters,” Issues & Advocacy, Nov. 18, 2020
• “Archivists on the Issues: More than a warehouse: why the closure of Seattle’s National Archives facility matters,” Issues & Advocacy, Feb. 18, 2020

Academic presentations/papers

• “A proposed lesson plan: The Prange Collection and Japanese history,” Fall 2019, accompanied by a slidedeck
• “An Outreach Proposal for the Pratt Library and Mine Eyes Have Seen,” Fall 2019
• “‘One of our largest constituencies’: NARA, genealogists, and ‘making access happen’,” Fall 2019, 47-page paper, unpublished
• “The Path Forward to All-Electronic Federal Recordkeeping in 2022,” Summer 2019, advocacy brief
• “Optimizing philanthropy: The challenge of digitizing NPS records,” Summer 2019, mini-grant proposal, accompanied by a slidedeck
• “Serving the U.S. immigrant population: what can libraries do?,” Summer 2019, infographic, accompanied by a slidedeck
• “Webrecorder Proposal Memo,” Spring 2019, paper, written with David Baasch, Kaley Dietrich, and Rebekah Valentine
• “National Museum of American History Guide to Conducting & Recording Digital Oral Histories,” Spring 2019, for NMAH to process their oral histories
• “Strategic Plan Analysis–Maryland State Library Resource Center (SLRC),” Fall 2018
• “Uggles and the University of Illinois: a very furry situation indeed!,” Fall 2018
• “The question of mass digitization: MD State Archives, UMD Archives, and AskUsNow!,” Fall 2018
• “The concept of a Baltimorean Homeless Library (BHL),” Fall 2018

Reel Librarians

• “Analyzing the witchy librarian in ‘Hilda’ TV series + new movie,” Reel Librarians, Mar. 9, 2022
• “BIPOC librarians in animated series: She-Ra to Yamibou,” Reel Librarians, Mar. 24, 2021

I Love Libraries

• “More Than the Internet on Paper: Libraries in Milo Murphy’s Law,” I Love Libraries, Feb. 4, 2022
• “Books, Magic, and Representation: Libraries and Librarians in The Owl House,” I Love Libraries, Jan. 12, 2022
• “This Nickelodeon Show Features a Magical Secret Library,” I Love Libraries, Apr. 22, 2021
• “BIPOC archivists in animated series: Arizal and Grampa Park,” Reel Librarians, Apr. 14, 2021
• “Libraries Take the Spotlight in this Disney Junior Show,” I Love Libraries, Mar. 4, 2021
• “These Animated Librarians Have Big Hearts and Big Heads,” I Love Libraries, Feb. 4, 2021
• “The Mysterious Librarian in Netflix’s “Hilda” Finally Gets a Name,” I Love Libraries, Jan. 8, 2021
• “A Mysterious Librarian is the Breakout Star of Netflix’s “Hilda”,” I Love Libraries, Sept. 11, 2020
• “These Animated Shows Defy Library Stereotypes,” I Love Libraries, Aug. 11, 2020

Other publications

• “Arizal, Recordkeeping, and the World of Maktaba,” The American Archivist Reviews Portal, Sept. 30, 2020
• “Archivists at the Movies: Reviewing the Film “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”,” SNAP Section blog, Apr. 3, 2020