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.