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Career Journeys: John Esh

John Esh is a Processing Archivist at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. John holds a BA in Anthropology from Portland State University and a MLS from Emporia State University. John is a member of SAA's SNAP (Students and New Archives Professionals) section and Performing Arts section steering committee member. What are your main responsibilities as … Continue reading Career Journeys: John Esh →

Career Journeys: Jennifer Olguin

Jennifer Olguin Jennifer Olguin, MLS, is the Rio Grande Historical Collections Archivist at New Mexico State University Library, Archives, and Special Collections. Jennifer, what are your main responsibilities as an archivist? As a tenure-track archivist at a university archive, my main responsibilities include the following:  Assist the campus community along with the public with their … Continue reading Career Journeys: Jennifer Olguin →

Mentoring Partnerships: Nora Plant and Jennifer Motszko

Nora Plant Nora Plant is an Audio-Visual Archivist at the University of Wyoming. She will be serving on the SAA Membership Committee as Key Contact for Wyoming beginning in August. Jennifer Motszko Jennifer Motszko works at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the current Chair of the SAA Membership Committee, and Chair-elect for the Manuscripts … Continue reading Mentoring Partnerships: Nora Plant and Jennifer Motszko →

Career Journeys: Nicole Diehm

Nicole Diehm, M.A. and M.S.I., is Digital Collections Librarian at the St. Augustine Historical Society Research Library. Nicole is also Co-Chair of the Conference Committee of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium. What are your main responsibilities as an archivist? While not an archivist by title, my main responsibilities are digital preservation and access. We’ve established … Continue reading Career Journeys: Nicole Diehm →

How Mentoring Helped Me Overcome Imposter Syndrome (or at least start to tame it)

by Biz Gallo Biz Gallo has served as the Manager of Audiovisual Preservation at George Blood, L.P. since 2013 and recently accepted the position of Statewide Digitization Initiatives Coordinator at the Library of Michigan. She received her Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information and has since been helping … Continue reading How Mentoring Helped Me Overcome Imposter Syndrome (or at least start to tame it) →

Career Journeys: Heather Bidzinski

Heather Bidzinski, in the stacks. This post is from Heather Bidzinski, Head of Archives at Special Collections at University of Manitoba. Heather is an active member of SAA and is a member of the ACACKRN (Canadian Research Knowledge Network) Conference Planning Committee; the CKRN NATIONAL HERITAGE DIGITIZATION STRATEGY Advisory Committee; and the ACA Governance Committee. … Continue reading Career Journeys: Heather Bidzinski →

Career Journeys: Caroline J. White

Caroline J. White. This post is from Caroline J. White, Archives and Manuscript Librarian at Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), UMass Amherst Libraries. Caroline was first hired in 2012 in a three-year position. She has also held several short-term archives positions at Mount Holyoke College. She is a graduate of Simmons School of Library … Continue reading Career Journeys: Caroline J. White →

SAA Committee Member Highlights: Devhra BennettJones

This post is from Devhra BennettJones. Devhra is a member of the SAA Membership Committee; the Society of American Archivists Navigator Program Subcommittee; the Society of American Archivists Mentoring Subcommittee; the Society of Ohio Archivists Membership & Awards Committee; and the Society of Ohio Archivists Social Justice and Black Lives Matter Task Force. Devhra, what … Continue reading SAA Committee Member Highlights: Devhra BennettJones →