This Capstone Project focuses on an archive on medical illustrator Clarice Francone. Though this collection has been unavailable to search and view online and required extensive reprocessing. Over the course of this year, I was able to rehouse and rearrange the archive, incorporate new accessions and create a digitized, searchable repository of Francone’s works available for public online viewing. With the completion of this project, a vast collection of historical, scientific and artistic merit is now significantly more accessible.

As the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department (CUPD) prepared to recognize its seventy-five years of service, the CUPD Legacy Project was organized to facilitate the creation of a formalized collection of memorabilia and the processes necessary to maintain the collection. Additionally, to both honor their accomplishments and preserve their knowledge, past and present CUPD members were invited to participate in the creation of an oral history collection. The establishment of the CUPD Legacy Collection will facilitate access to and preservation of department history and encourage past and present members to share their knowledge through stories.

WTBBL ran the Evergreen Radio Reading Service (ERRS) from 1973 to 2011 for the blind and print disabled, with hundreds of media in the collection in danger of being lost due to general obsolescence and material degradation. In this phase of preservation, our team created an inventory of all 2,497 items. This helps understand the content in the collection, and the digital preservation project presents a storage solution for physical assets to ensure long-term access. This is the first step to digitally preserving a significant part of history of WTBBL, independent radio, and the print-disabled community in the Pacific Northwest.

Grief is a unifying human experience that is notoriously hard to quantify and express. It is also highly contextual, shaped by our environments, identities, and relationships to the object of our grief. Research shows that reading fiction as bibliotherapy supports grieving children’s ability to express emotion, develop positive coping skills, make meaning, and heal. Unfortunately, grief in children’s fiction is inconsistently categorized, making it difficult to find resources that reflect specific grief experiences. Grieve with Me is a series of book lists that connect grieving children with fiction that depicts authentic representations of diverse identities, grief experiences, and healing narratives.

The purpose of this project was to research and produce a proposal for implementing the Brian Deer Classification System (BDCS) in the Archives and Library in the Atwood Resource Center at the Anchorage Museum. The intended changes will improve the searchability of library holdings and more respectfully reflect the diverse communities the museum serves and the knowledge that it stewards. This project is in line with the museum’s stated goal to support and implement decolonizing practices.

The Military Legal Resource Collection was adopted by the LoC, originally from the William Winthrop Memorial Library at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG)’s Legal Center and School. Over time the collection has grown by building on top of it's legacy information architecture, and thus this project aims to review this collection in its entirety to propose changes for a more uniform, accessible, and comprehensive navigation and user experience for LoC visitors. Additionally, due to the collection's history with JAG, this capstone will be mindful its historical legacy to JAG and make appropriate suggestions with care and respect.

The Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations digital collections in the Law Library of Congress require updated organization and metadata to optimize user experience. This project reviewed these and other FR / CFR collections to identify solutions for improving UX / UI design. The primary deliverable of this Capstone project is a whitepaper report highlighting opportunities for improvement and providing recommendations to enhance accessibility, organization, and navigation in the collections. The project will broaden access to free legal resources that researchers—particularly nonprofits and small organizations—can use to further their work, saving them time and resources.

Flickr Foundation provided a design brief and call to action for students to reimagine information preservation, cultural stewardship, and the future of memory work in an open culture setting. Over 10 weeks students assessed and debated how digitized photography collections should be stored, described, and accessed now and in the future. Taking on board critical concerns around social justice, decolonization, generative AI, and sustainability, students crafted new proposals to assist Flickr Foundation’s planning as a “life boat”, “bunker”, and time capsule for other people’s visual memories.Students: Joshua Auvaa, Dorothy Clement, Umme-Kulsum Darugar,Allyson Wang Graylin, Ariba Aswad Janoo, Jainaba Jawara, Eric Von Carlos II Latham, Michael Quoc Pham, Archita Singh, Chun Hin Matthew So, Cecelia Kaulawena Thomas, Olivia Wei, Qinruo Yang, Sonia Yeh, Yunjing Zhang, Xingyuan Zhao

I’ve worked with an independent video store, Movie Madness, to clean their database of 90,000+ film titles to ensure consistency, accuracy, and completeness of every record. They acquired a new POS system in 2015 that acts as their film database which made it simple for them to input new film information. However, they had a backlog of film data that was not moved over with a consistent framework in mind. My work to clean this data has made their reports more accurate, created a consistent cataloging schema, and made the online search experience for their customers much smoother and enjoyable.

Because of the rarity of their collections, archives are notoriously inaccessible. For most of their history they were reserved for curators and researchers. But history should be accessible to everyone, regardless of background or geography. Digital technologies are the best way to do this, but their application takes a level of funding that is not always available to archives. The purpose of this project is to add an open source tool that libraries and archives can use in the process of creating digital collections. It turns digital scans into searchable documents, allowing for ease of browsing.