Category: Archives

Grant Hurley

he/him/his
Canadiana Librarian, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Areas of expertise
rare books and special collections; archival description; cataloguing; collections development; Canadian studies; digital preservation tools, standards, policies, practices; service development/project management; digital storage/infrastructure; archives and records management more generally (have also worked in more standard archives/RM roles)
Can help with
Resumes and CVs; interview and job talk tips; imposter syndrome (not that I'm over it personally [crying cat face]); connecting with communities and good folks
Can speak
English
Can read
English
Contact
grant.hurley@utoronto.ca; granthurley.ca

Jacob Ratliff

he, him, his
User Experience Specialist
Areas of expertise
UX, Information Architecture, Taxonomies, Metadata, Information Management, Special Libraries
Can help with
Happy to talk through anything.
Can speak
English
Can read
English
Contact
jaratliff13@gmail.com / @Gameronomist

John Dewees

he/him/his
Digital Asset Management Lead, University of Rochester - River Campus Libraries
Areas of expertise
project management, digitization, digital libraries, metadata, US copyright law, policy development, public libraries, Omeka, CONTENTdm, Internet Archive, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Preservica, Python a bit of data visualization, and enough IIIF to make me dangerous
Can help with
CV/resume review, cover letter review, interview preparation, getting involved with professional organizations/service, presentation preparation, developing portfolios, DAM/digital libraries/digital preservation, getting started in coding, just being a sounding board for whatever you've got going on
Can speak
English
Can read
English
Contact
john.dewees@rochester.edu (preferred), john.dewees@gmail.com, @johndewees, johndewees.com (updated 2022-03-11)

Jordan Hale

they/them/theirs
Digital Repositories Librarian, University of Waterloo
Areas of expertise
repository management, metadata, cataloguing, GIS/map/data librarianship, scholarly communications, labour relations, research design, grant writing, media archives, digitization, digital scholarship, DSpace, OJS, cat petting
Can help with
CV and interview questions, surviving library school and the world beyond, making connections
Can speak
English
Can read
English
Contact
jordan.hale@uwaterloo.ca / @jordanclaire

Kate Crowe

she/her/hers
Curator of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Denver. Have also worked in metadata for non-bibliographic materials, but now focused on teaching critical information literacy w/primary sources. I also teach Intro to Archives and Advanced Archives for the DU LIS school.
Areas of expertise
The above, also I am the child of academic library administrators, both of whom chose to get doctorates in LIS, so I have literally spent my life in academic libraries and around academic librarians, so I understand them historically and culturally pretty well (for better and worse). I have literally never not worked in academia. I also research/write quite a bit about inclusion, equity, and diversity in the historical record, much of which relates back to how/what I teach, both in the archives and in the LIS classroom
Can speak
English
Can read
English
Contact
katherine.crowe@du.edu, katherine-crowe.com, @kcrowe
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Katrina Cohen-Palacios

she/her
Archivist at York University
Areas of expertise
emerging areas of expertise?: spreadsheet software (Excel, Libre Calc, Open Refine); tackling large processing projects including offsite moves and vendor digitization prep; Wikidata, Wikipedia, and Wikicommons
Can help with
graduate studies, academic archives, professional development, professional associations, resumes, interviews, documentation and policies, project management, imposter syndrome, and I’ll do my best to try and answer anything else
Can speak
English, French
Can read
English, French
Contact
kcohenp@yorku.ca / @katrina_cp

Krista McCracken

She/Them
Archives Supervisor, Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre/Arthur A. Wishart Library at Algoma University
Areas of expertise
Indigenous community archives, archival instruction, outreach, processing, community archive setup, policy planning / small shop archives, digitization outreach programs
Can help with
resumes/CVs, interview prep, working as an archivist in a non-traditional space, understanding positionality/working with Indigenous communities as a settler, getting started as a lone arranger, queer* new professional support
Can speak
English
Can read
English
Contact
krista.mccracken@algomau.ca / @kristamccracken / kristamccracken.ca
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Mary Kosta

Archivist, Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada
Areas of expertise
preservation, arrangement, description, digital preservation, image and sound digitization, records management, outreach, funding proposals
Can help with
We offer a four month practicum for library and archival studies students that involves training in key archival skills and hands-on practice.
Contact
mkosta@csjcanada.org
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