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.