I teach librarianship and archival science

I teach courses in Archival Theory, Critical Digital Librarianship, Website Design, Information Literacy, and other topics. I have current and upcoming courses with the following institutions:

I also teach outside of institutions. I do archival literacy workshops for journalists, I teach archival practices to activists, and fun things like that.

I’m the founding co-editor of the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship.

We’re open peer reviewed and open access. We’re a scrappy little project that’s providing a space to promote cultural heritage digital library work, especially critical approaches to these and similar topics:

Selection for digitization
Metadata remediation / Context for harm reduction
Digital humanities / Digital scholarship
Collections as data
Digital library technology

We are particularly interested in work that integrates feminist, antiracist, anticolonial, queer, and other critical frameworks to digital librarianship. Read more about our journal here, and the be sure to reach out if you’d like to publish with us (we’re an easy group of folks to work with).

I was the Head of Digital Programs and Services at LSU Libraries in Baton Rouge. (2018 - 2022)

During my time there, I:

Launched a mobile digitization lab to increase the digital cultural heritage record of smaller Louisiana cultural heritage institutions
Developed and managed a speaker series on the topic of ethical digital collection creation and use.
Brought in a grant to explore the ethical use of digital collections at a state-wide digital library scale.
Assembled and managed a fantastic team of digital preservation, metadata, outreach, and digitization professionals.

Here are some recorded talks about my work at LSU Libraries

We Don’t Know If This Can Be Done, But It Won’t Be Done Without All of Us: Building an Ethical Open Data Community of Practice in Small and Medium-Sized Cultural Heritage Institutions, June 3, 2022, “Open Data: Reuse, Redistribution, and Risk” Symposium
Y’ALL Means All: Participatory Digitization Initiatives, October 28, 2021, Louisiana Association of Museums Annual Conference
… And 25 of Our Closest Friends: The Louisiana Digital Library as Community-Focused Data, September 18, 2020, Louisiana Association of Manuscripts and Archives (LAMA) Annual Meeting

I was Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology at the American Philosophical Society (2015-2018)