The following are some excerpts from class papers that I wrote while completing my Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration.

Regardless of the size or type of archives that the materials call home, it’s the music heritage that needs to be preserved. If it’s successfully protected, then there is opportunity for cultural justice to be served.

To be a healthy society, we must prevent music heritage from ending up in the trash.

from Archives Associated with Recorded Music: Serving Cultural Justice

Archival Administration – Fall 2020

Many of these collections make an extra effort to preserve the materials created and captured by essential labor: teachers, medical professionals, grocery store employees, retail workers, and first responders. These repositories are also focused on collecting the records of African Americans, the Latinx community, and Indigenous people, since the coronavirus and the pandemic’s resulting economic downturn affects people of color at a disproportionate rate.

from COVID-19 Collecting Assessment

Archival Administration – Fall 2020

These visual design suggestions can be helpful to all of our users, but the archives community also needs to expand accessibility for people with disabilities, including those with vision impairments.

from Using Visual Design to Make Finding Aids More Accessible to All Users

Description and Access for Archives – Winter 2021

Especially striking, too, are the images of wartime casualties, military equipment production, and refugee relief, that unfortunately are very similar to what we are seeing in the press today of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But it makes the task of thoroughly describing the records of historical wartime events feel that much more urgent and necessary in order to avoid that type of history from repeating.

from Virtual Motor City Descriptive Metadata Project

Administration of Audio-Visual Collections – Winter 2022

3D printing technology provides an additional level of information for patrons researching a topic at libraries and it enhances the learning experience for museum visitors. People with vision impairments, people who learn better through tactile experiences, young people, and older adults all benefit from the ability to touch and handle 3D printed objects at heritage and information institutions.

from 3D Printing Plastics and their use in Libraries, Museums, and Conservation

Introduction to Archival and Library Conservation – Summer 2022