Saint Mary Catholic Church in Corvallis, Oregon, was founded in 1861. Its parish archive opened in 1981. Unfortunately, the archives are tucked in a locked room in the parish hall, preventing newcomers from learning the history of the parish. A website was created to solve this information problem: attached to the main parish website, this site allows parishioners, community members, and those interested in church history to connect with these artifacts. This online resource serves as a door-opener: delivering a portrait of the 160-year history of the parish. 

I created a prototype for a redesigned suite of library staff tools to replace a defunct web portal for the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. I evaluated what functionalities the library's staff most needed in a tool suite and focused on the two primary functionalities of list-making and material withdrawals. This tool suite was designed using interviews and observational research to be approachable, helpful, and easy to learn. In addition, I focused on clear documentation and resources to lay the groundwork for technical implementation of the program in the future.

Ballard High School had a small but incredibly popular Manga collection. Titles were often checked out, limiting reading options. We created a Manga Club to allow students a voice in building the collection. Students suggested titles and applied for grant funding, ultimately purchasing 250 new titles. Additionally, we met with the Library Leaders Club to learn what students wanted from their library. With their input, we were able to create readers' advisory materials to promote library resources. Our work empowered students to share their expertise, take ownership of their library, and directly shape the collection and readers’ advisory tools.

The Svoboda Diaries Project is a digital humanities collection of 49 diaries that cover the life of Joseph Svoboda as he traded up and down the Tigris river in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century. We’ve been working to standardize their implementation of TEI, updating the existing TEI to fit current standards and creating guidelines and future work guides to help direct implementation of the metadata on a broad scale.

Bellevue High School has yearbooks (The Beacon) going back to 1924 stored in the back room of the Library. The older yearbooks are fragile and important to the history of BHS, so it is important for stakeholders to be able to access them. I created an Online Archive complete through 1950 so that anyone can access our Beacon collection at any time without negative consequences for the materials. This project makes a difference for our Bellevue community because now students, staff, alumni, and community members can access these historical documents and learn about the history of BHS.

In 2020, the Lake Washington Institute of Technology library, with their DEI department created the Diversity and Social Justice collection. While the initial work of adding books to the collection was finished, there was much left to be done, including writing a collection development policy and creating finding aids to help students find books within the collection. Our team was able to complete these tasks, as well as establishing collection assessment guidelines and performing an assessment. We believe that, not only have we helped advance the college’s DEI goals, we have helped make the library a more accessible place.

The project of democracy relies on the public's access to information about government activities. This project increased government transparency and accountability by making archival materials about the Seattle Department of Transportation's urban forestry activities discoverable and accessible. At the beginning of the project, the materials had been backlogged for ten years, disorganized, mixed in with irrelevant items, and unlisted in any public-facing document. This project saw those materials organized by topic and year, labeled, and made discoverable and accessible for patrons. The new, online finding aid provides metadata to help patrons find materials and thick descriptions to give broader context.

GSK’s Heritage Archives maintains the research of Nobel-laurate and biochemist Gertrude Elion. Despite the importance of Elion’s collection, it was hard for archivists to access due to highly scientific terminology, lack of organization, extent, and deteriorated state. To address this problem, I arranged, labeled, and rehoused the physical collection into archival storage containers and created a finding aid that featured a breakdown of Elion’s research. To prevent similar occurrences with future scientific acquisitions, I created a processing guide for research collections. Through this work, users can now confidently access Elion’s and future collections, regardless of their own scientific backgrounds.

The goal of this project was to develop guidance for academic libraries undertaking renovation and reconstruction efforts after experiencing a disaster such as a flood or fire. While research is available on disaster planning and recovery in libraries, most of the resources do little to address the challenges and potential opportunities that come with needing to redesign, renovate, and rebuild spaces damaged in a disaster. Although every situation is different, this project examines the experiences of academic libraries who have undertaken post-disaster renovations, providing insight and advice that can aid others who find themselves navigating the unexpected in the future.

Developed to help elementary grade children learn about their family, Tools for Tiny Historians includes resources on developing an interview, conducting the research process, and compiling family history. Worksheets guide students through the process and help educators create programs that will help their community, and additional linked aids help connect Tiny Historians with outside sources that will support them with any research project. With resources for students and for those working with the students, the project aims to help us learn from the people who came before us and the world of people around us.