Melody moved into a position that aligned with her love for archives and academic librarianship after a few years of Program Management at Microsoft. In 2016, she started working for the Principia College as its archivist and special collections librarian, with faculty standing.

She is a lone-arranger with a couple of student workers and is focused on moving through the immense backlog, digitizing the archives and collections, creating exhibits, and inspiring students and faculty to use the archives.