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Brian Powell

2024
Louisiana State University

Education Collections and Technology Fellow

Brian Powell is the Education Collections and Technology Fellow at Atkins Library. Brian is currently an MLIS student at Louisiana State University. He recently moved to the Charlotte area from Louisiana, where he worked as a school librarian in East Baton Rouge Parish. Brian holds a MA in Education from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Samford University. In his role as a school librarian, he was also the Site Technology Facilitator and School Testing Coordinator. Prior to entering the world of librarianship, Brian served as a middle school English teacher in both East Baton Rouge Parish and Boston. In his work as a teacher, he earned a Fulbright Award from the U. S. State Department for his participation in the Teachers for Global Classrooms program. He is interested in exploring the connections between libraries and student-centered learning experiences.

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Sarah Hensler

2024
Indiana University

Open Access Usage Fellow

Sarah Hensler is the Open Access Usage Fellow at the Atkins Library. She is working with the Collection Services team to research how the Atkins Library can use open access (OA) usage data to support decision-making for existing collections and further acquisitions.

Sarah holds BAs in History and French from Indiana University, and is also pursuing her MLS there. When at IU, she works at the Lilly Library, which houses the university’s rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. She also works at the Hamilton-Lugar School for Global and International Studies. There, she coordinates the Windows to the World project: a cross-institutional digital humanities platform which brings archival materials into K-12 classrooms. In both workplaces, she found an interest in database organization and records management. When she’s not swimming in data, Sarah can typically be found dancing, drawing, or playing Dungeons and Dragons.

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Sydney Anderson

2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Digital Humanities Research Fellow

Sydney is the Digital Humanities Fellow at Atkins Library. She will be surveying other staff and faculty both at UNC Charlotte and at other peer institutions as well as researching different digital humanities projects and centers to write up a proposal for recommendations as to how the university can better support digital humanities.

She is currently getting her MLIS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and works as a Public Service Assistant at the iSchool front desk, and has previously worked as an Oral History Project Coordinator at the University Archives. Sydney received her Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Kansas State University, and after graduation, went on to work at the Olathe Public Library in Kansas City, Kansas. At UW-Madison, she is currently involved in the Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM) organization, and is interested in pursuing a career in academic libraries.

Brigid McCreery

Brigid McCreery

2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Open Access Fellow

Brigid is the Open Access Fellow at Atkins Library. She is currently an MLIS student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she works as a Teaching Assistant at the iSchool and a Reference Student Assistant at College Library.

She holds a BS in Ecosystem Science & Sustainability and a BA in Journalism & Media Communications, both from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. She studied sustainability and scientific communications, and worked for several years in copywriting and graphic design roles for water quality, higher education, and nonprofit organizations.

At UW-Madison, she is involved with student groups including iQueery and Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM). She is passionate about research, information access, and education, and looks forward to pursuing a career in academic libraries.

Amanda Janke

Amanda Janke

2023
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Textbook Affordability Fellow

Amanda Janke is the Textbook Affordability Fellow at the Atkins Library. She will be working to better understand how other colleges and universities are implementing Open Educational Resources (OERs) into their curriculum in the hopes that UNCC will be able to adapt them as well. This will allow students to have completely free textbooks, no matter the subject. UNCC is implementing First Day Complete in collaboration with Barnes and Noble this upcoming fall semester, which is a great start towards more affordable textbooks, but it is the hope that with the research Amanda is doing, it can be seen that completely free textbooks are better for students and faculty alike.

Amanda received her Bachelor's degree in History from Queens University of Charlotte and is currently getting her Master's in Library and Information Science from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After interning at South Piedmont Community College's library during her first year of the MLIS program, who is also moving towards only using OERs, Amanda found a passion for textbook affordability. She is also interested in archives and special collections. She hopes to stay in an academic library environment once she has graduated.

Charlotte Peterson

Charlotte Peterson

2023
St. Catherine University

Collection Assessment Fellow

Charlotte Peterson is the Collection Assessment Fellow at Atkins Library. She will be working with the Collection Services unit to create a process that supports decision making around the library’s Big Deal journal packages.

Charlotte recently earned her MLIS from St. Catherine University, and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as an analyst supporting education research studies, an instructor at a public access art glass studio, and a services assistant at a public library. While at St. Catherine University, Charlotte developed a digital library of faculty resource materials for the School of Health, and was involved with the Special Libraries Association (SLA) student group. She is interested in many areas in libraries, including research data services, information retrieval, and information ethics.

Claire Macomson

Claire Macomson

2023
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital Media Literacy Fellow

Claire Macomson is the Digital Media Literacy Fellow at Atkins Library. She is working with the Research and Instruction team to develop digital media literacy modules for instructional use, conduct an environmental scan of the current digital media literacy instruction landscape at UNC Charlotte and elsewhere, and design social media content for the library to promote digital media literacy among the university community.

Claire is a recent graduate of the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has previously worked in public libraries and higher education administration. She received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Women & Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. When she is not living in Charlotte for the summer, Claire assists fostering kittens for the Orange County Animal Shelter.

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Owen King

2022
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Wikidata Fellow

Owen King is the Wikidata Fellow at the Atkins Library. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in information science at UNC Chapel Hill. His main interests relate to digital collections and their metadata, and he sees well-designed metadata systems as the key to expanding collections’ reach and impact. In assisting the Atkins Library’s contributions to Wikidata, Owen will help ensure that accurate information about authors from the UNC Charlotte community is broadly accessible across the Internet.

Before his Atkins Fellowship, Owen was an intern at the State Archives of North Carolina, where he analyzed and developed systems for digital preservation metadata. Prior to his work in information science, Owen was a philosopher, with research focused on value theory, especially well-being and information ethics. He received a PhD in philosophy at The Ohio State University in 2016, and he has held teaching and research positions in philosophy departments at Oberlin College and the University of Twente in the Netherlands.

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Steph Regenauer

2022
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Open Access Fellow

Steph Regenauer is the Open Access Fellow at the Atkins Library. She will be working with the Technologies and Digital Strategies team to help preserve open access research from UNC Charlotte scholars and promote Niner Commons, UNC Charlotte’s institutional repository.

Steph holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. She is pursuing her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She has spent over a decade working in various roles for the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation. She is currently the Foundation’s scholarship administrator, where she oversees the awarding of donor-funded scholarships.

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Tania M. Ríos Marrero

2022
University of Washington

Digital Humanities Fellow

Tania M. Ríos Marrero is the Digital Humanities Fellow at the Atkins Library. Working within the Public Services and Technology & Digital Strategies units, the goal of her project is to increase access to North Carolina artists' books through the use of 3D modeling, descriptive metadata, curriculum planning and outreach.

Tania recently earned her MLIS from the University of Washington and holds a BA in writing, literature and publishing from Emerson College. Her interests are in digital archives, rare books and special collections, Latin American and Caribbean studies and the digital humanities. She works as a digital archivist with the Puerto Rico Architectural Heritage Archive and resides in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Before pursuing a career in academic libraries, she worked as a community organizer. She has facilitated workshops and presented her work about the intersection of public libraries and community organizing at the Next Library Conference in Berlin, the University of Pennsylvania Climate Change, Resilience, Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference, among others.

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Xena Becker

2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

LGBTQ+ Digital Humanities Fellow

Xena Becker is the LGBTQ+ Digital Humanities Fellow at the Atkins Library. She is working with the Special Collections and University Archives to create a digital timeline of important events in LGBTQ+ history in Charlotte. The goal of the project is to showcase materials and identify gaps in the current collections. She plans to pursue a career as a rare books and special collections librarian and is especially interested in teaching with these materials.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature with a Minor in Education Studies from New York University, where she conducted research on the history of LGBTQ activism at the school and its relationship to broader queer community organizing in Greenwich Village. While at NYU, she worked at the Fales Library and Special Collections. Her interest in librarianship began with a class co-taught by English faculty and the Librarian for Printed Books at Fales titled “Papyrus to PDF: An Introduction to Book History Now.” She currently works as the Graduate Assistant at the Scholarly Commons and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois. She is eager to use her experiences this summer to expand her expertise in digital humanities and digital public history.

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Jenny Carlos

2019
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Innovative Collection Spaces Fellow

Jenny is the Innovative Collection Spaces Fellow at Atkins Library. She is currently enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in their MLIS program and will graduate in May 2020. Her B.A. is in Art History with a certificate in Museum Studies and Fine Art Gallery Practices from Humboldt State University. She has a M.A. in Higher Education from Appalachian State University. Jenny’s research interest is in diversity librarianship, in particular how academic libraries can help Hispanic students succeed.

Jenny is the incoming LISSA president at UNCG. She currently works as a reference desk intern at Jackson Library at UNCG and as a graduate assistant for the MLIS department.

She is a California native and the daughter of Mexican immigrants.

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Jude Wasserman

2019
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Transfer Student Success Fellow

Jude is the Transfer Student Success Fellow at Atkins Library. They are currently an MLIS student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and work as a reference student assistant at College Library. They graduated with a BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington where they studied political economy, social justice education, and disability studies.

In Olympia they organized Queer Rock Camp -- the world’s first music camp for LGBTQ youth, eventually expanding the program into Seattle (now called the Queer & Trans Youth Music Project). During their time in the Pacific Northwest they also worked with LGBTQ teens as a peer social justice educator, and as a support group facilitator in local high schools. They have previously worked with people experiencing homelessness, young families, and immigrant youth. They first became interested in librarianship after witnessing the transformative impact of public libraries on the lives of young people in their community, and they see libraries as uniquely positioned to provide resources to underserved populations. They are passionate about the liberatory potential of libraries, and are looking forward to supporting Atkins Library in contributing to transfer student success.

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Georgia Westbrook

2019
Syracuse University

Scholarly Communications and Digital Publishing Fellow

Georgia Westbrook is the Atkins Fellow for Scholarly Communications and Digital Publishing for the summer of 2019. She is an MSLIS candidate at Syracuse University, where she is a graduate student assistant in the Learning Commons at Bird Library and a graduate researcher with the iSchool Public Libraries Initiative. Georgia is interested in scholarly communications, metadata, and information organization and access. She holds a BA in art history from Binghamton University. 

This summer, Georgia is working to support outreach efforts and other tasks related to Niner Commons, UNC Charlotte's institutional repository, which launches in July.

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Eileen López

2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Augmented Reality and User Experience Fellow

Eileen López is the Augmented Reality and User Experience Fellow for 2019. This summer, she will assist in determining the library’s needs surrounding AR technologies both for use in the library and as a teaching tool for students and faculty. She is currently pursuing her master's in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on information experience, information architecture, digital curation, and usability engineering.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago and worked for several years as a visual designer before entering graduate school. In the past year at U of I, Eileen worked as the Student Leadership Graduate Assistant at the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) and as a Usability Testing Graduate Associate at the Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services. She also advises the iSchool’s Student Advisory Board and is involved with various student organizations both in the iSchool and the Grainger College of Engineering. This upcoming academic year, Eileen will serve as Vice President of the Association for Information Science & Technology’s (ASIS&T) Student Chapter at U of I, helping to provide a space for students to explore and engage with research and issues related to information access, retrieval, and management.

When not at work or school, Eileen provides design and marketing support to non-profits, small businesses, and startups through her design agency; leads a volunteer-run social group that builds community amongst self-identifying geeky women in the Chicago area; serves as a board member on the City Year Chicago Alumni Association; and enjoys spending time with her family.

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Christin Lampkowski

2018
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Technology and Digital Media Fellow

Christin Lampkowski is the Technology and Digital Media Fellow at Atkins Library working to identify digital imaging technologies that can be used to create 3D models of items in the collection for conservation and access purposes. She holds an MLIS from UNC Greensboro and a BA in anthropology from Arizona State University. Information access and education has been a focus of Christin’s professional and volunteer life. Prior to receiving her Master’s degree she worked at a public radio station, a nonprofit that promoted high quality early childhood education, and a children’s museum where she presented programs on world cultures. During her time at UNC Greensboro she worked on digitization projects and processed archival collections with the Forest History Society and Richland Library’s Walker Local and Family History Center. She also worked on collection management and cataloging with the Harriet Hancock LGBT Center’s Sam Nickles Memorial Library. Christin’s work on these projects focused on increasing people’s ability to find and access information available in institution's collections.

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Kate Topham

2018
University of Michigan

Collection Management Systems Fellow

Kate is the Collection Management Systems Fellow. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Information Science at the University of Michigan School of Information, specializing in Digital Curation. Favorite projects include creating a digital exhibit of photographs from Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, analyzing record data from George Washington University’s rare book collection, and developing a long-term digital curation plan for the Penn Treebank project. After graduation she hopes to work in the Digital Humanities field, managing digital collections, developing online exhibits, and facilitating computational humanities research. 

Kate holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, where she wrote an undergraduate thesis on witches in ancient Roman literature. Before entering graduate school, Kate interned in Rome, Italy for a non-profit that promotes classical education. She currently works as a Curatorial Assistant at Michigan’s Papyrology Collection.

This summer, she will work with the Special Collections Library’s collection management system to clean up archival record data and create custom reports to gather statistics and analytics for the Atkins Library’s Special Collections.

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Jenny Bruxvoort

2018
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assessment and Analytics Fellow

Jenny is the Assessment and Analytics Fellow at the Atkins Library this summer. She is currently a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pursuing her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science. Jenny’s interests are library assessment, reference services, and information literacy instruction.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Political Science from Calvin College and went on to work for the Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative as the data quality assistant, managing records for several hundred preschool students across eight locations. She also worked as a research assistant for Calvin’s political science department before deciding to pursue her Master’s Degree. During her past year at U of I, Jenny worked as the library assessment graduate assistant at the main library doing things like space assessment, survey implementation, and statistics compilation. This spring Jenny also collaborated on a research project about library representation in undergraduate science textbooks. This summer Jenny is working on an assessment/research study to demonstrate the impact of library resources and programs on student learning and success by aligning library and other student engagement metrics across the university and tying it to measures of student success. When she is not working Jenny enjoys hiking, playing board games, and creating stained glass pieces.

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Miana Breed

2018
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Born-Digital University Archives Processing Fellow

Miana Breed is the Born-Digital University Archives Processing Fellow at Atkins Library. She is currently pursuing her Master's of Library Science on the archives and records management track at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has a Bachelor's degree in English with a concentration in creative writing from Appalachian State University. Her career interests include born-digital records, the future of digital preservation, the archive's role in recording and preserving history and truth, and all things historical.

From an early age, her parents encouraged her love of reading and introduced her to the wonders of libraries and archives. After considering a graduate degree in Public History, she decided to pursue a career in archives and records management. In her time at UNC, she has worked as an archives intern in the Ullman Classics Library, a position which focused on book preservation and collection management and assessment.

Through her work this summer, Miana hopes to hone her computer skills and gain experience with the many types of software used to forensically assess and package born-digital records. This summer's project hopes to make much of the University's digital holdings available to researchers, staff, and the public, as well as preserve digital materials in a more secure, sustainable manner. Miana's work will build off the work done by other Fellows in previous years, and she looks forward to continuing their effort to make UNC-Charlotte's born-digital materials visible and accessible.

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Amelia Midgett-Nicholson

2018
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Global Engagement Fellow

Amelia Midgett-Nicholson is the Global Engagement Fellow at Atkins Library. She is currently a MSLS student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in reference, instruction, and promoting equity and diversity in academic libraries.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the American University and went on to work as a Library Associate with the Greensboro Public Library. After 3 years, she decided to pursue her MSLS degree and a career in academic librarianship. In the past year at UNC Chapel Hill, Amelia has served as a Reference and Instructional Services Graduate Assistant, working at the Davis Library reference desk and teaching information literacy classes at the Undergraduate Library. She has also worked on a NC Court of Appeals quality assurance project at the Everett Law Library and a government documents cataloging project at Davis Library. In addition, Amelia serves as President of SCALA (Student Chapter of the American Library Association) working to connect her classmates with professional development opportunities.

She looks forward to using her own travel experiences to inform her work as Global Engagement Fellow, especially her time studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

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LaQuanda Onyemeh

2017
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Electronic Resources Management Fellow

LaQuanda T. Onyemeh is the Electronic Resources Management Fellow at Atkins Library. She is currently a MLIS (Master of Library & Information Studies) student at UNC Greensboro.  She has a dual degree in Psychology and Sociology from State University New York, Brockport. During her second year of law school she received an opportunity to work at the law library and quickly recognized that her passion and purpose was in the library. She decided to put a pause on her legal education and pursue librarianship. Recently, she has worked as a Remote Metadata intern for the Law Library of Congress where she created descriptive metadata for the Hein Project.  She  assigned metadata and topic categories to over 900 Supreme Court opinions located in the United States Reports.  LaQuanda also demonstrated expertise in conducting legal research and navigating through legal databases, and assisted her supervisor in reviewing interns' work in order to help provide open access to legal material on the Law Library of Congress’ website.  LaQuanda is currently a  graduate assistant at the UNC-Greensboro Teaching Resource Center.

LaQuanda has received the following scholarships: M. Sangster Parrott Fellowship from UNC-Greensboro, Southern Eastern American Association Law Libraries  (SEAALL) Student Scholarship, and George A. Strait Minority scholarship from American Association Law Libraries (AALL).
 
Her ultimate goal is to become a law librarian who actively teaches legal research, and promotes lifelong learning and intellectual freedom. She enjoys helping others find the information they need. Early in life she quickly realized education is the key that will change her future circumstances and she has been committed to that realization ever since.  She is open to all the new possibilities librarianship offers.

Hobbies include painting, traveling and taking pictures. She enjoys learning new things, and she is always open to soak up new information, and sharing what she has learned with others.

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Beth Caruso

2017
University of South Carolina

Technology Services Fellow

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Erin Gallagher

2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital University Records Fellow

Erin is the Born-Digital University Records Fellow at the Atkins Library. She is currently a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing her Master’s Degree in Information Science with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. Erin’s interests are in born-digital processing, digital archiving, and data management.

She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Psychology from Appalachian State University and went on to work for the State of North Carolina as a courtroom clerk, managing records for two busy specially designated DWI courtrooms. She also worked as an administrative assistant for a cloud computing company before deciding to pursue her Master’s Degree.

During her past year at UNC Chapel Hill, Erin worked as a Research Assistant through a Data@Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill to promote and bring awareness to needs in research data throughout various departments at UNC Chapel Hill through the Research Data Management and Sharing MOOC created by Dr. Helen Tibbo and the ODUM Institute.  

This summer Erin will lay the groundwork for a large-scale ingest of University records to the digital repository. She will assess the amount and the different kinds of born-digital information held by individual University offices and she will develop workflows to be used by the University for ingesting necessary, born-digital University records for proper preservation and archiving, as well as making these digital, public records accessible through the repository.

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Natalie Ornat

2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Public Services Fellow

Natalie Ornat earned a Master of Science in Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2017.  She served as a Research and Instruction Graduate Assistant within both Davis Library and the Undergraduate Library, and as the student library liaison for the Academic Support Program for Student Athletes.  Her work researching the impacts of reading and writing on individuals living through the siege of Sarajevo earned her the Dean’s Achievement Award and an invitation to present at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.  Natalie came to the field of librarianship with a background in teaching.  She was a 2012 Teach For America corps member and taught at a middle school in Charlotte, North Carolina.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Graduate Certificate in Teaching from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Natalie serves as the Public Services Fellow where she will work to create greater collaboration through teambuilding and workflow analysis in the newly created Public Services unit.

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Whitney Ray

2017
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital Image Processing Fellow

Whitney Ray is the Digital Image Processing Fellow at Atkins Library. After graduating from The Evergreen State College, Whitney served as an AmeriCorps VISTA and worked for A Slice of Pie Productions on a documentary film on the history of The Automat. She has since found her place in archives, the study of narrative, and multimedia preservation.

Whitney is pursuing her MSLS at UNC – Chapel Hill, where she specializes in Archives and Records Management. Committed to equipping students with research tools they need to succeed in an information-dense world, she has spent the last year as a research and instruction assistant at Davis Library and taught information literacy sessions at the Undergraduate Library. She has also worked in the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, providing quality assurance to a digitization project and working to ensure access to North Carolina Court of Appeals records across different formats. Her most recent position was in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, rehousing and describing negatives from the Durham Herald-Sun Collection.

This summer Whitney will work to preserve and disseminate born-digital photographs created by motorsports photographer Bryant McMurray.  She will complete the accessioning of the photographs using established processes, then develop and implement a workflow for processing the digital files and ingesting them into a digital repository on the Islandora platform. Whitney will work with digital production and metadata librarians, and possibly the photographer himself, on the creation of metadata and workflows.

She’s looking forward to exploring the city of Charlotte this summer, particularly any running trails with lots of shade.

Kimberly Looby

2016
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assessment Fellow

Mariko Dailey

2016
Simmons College

Authority Control and Web Archiving Fellow

Stephen Krueger

2016
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Collection Analysis and Promotion Fellow

Tamara Carr

2016
San Jose State University

Curriculum and Instructional Materials Tech Fellow

Brett Fujioka

2016
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Communications and Marketing Fellow

Ethan Lindsay

2016
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Collection Analysis and Promotion Fellow

Julia Glauberman

2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Curriculum Mapping Fellow

Karna Younger

2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Primary Sources Assessment Fellow

Colleen Daw

2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital Archives Fellow

Erin Baucom

2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital Archives Fellow

Anne Harding

2015
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Digital Archives Fellow