The King County Library System genealogical collections have never been evaluated for their efficacy. This project surveyed the state of the genealogical collections through cataloging of collection material, interviewing the target audience and peers, and analyzing how it serves the community. While there was a range of practices from peer libraries, the target audience showed satisfaction with the current state of the KCLS collections and their accessibility, and current practices were evaluated to be effective with the available labor. With the gathered information, KCLS is better equipped to understand patron needs for this particular collection.

Project Completed for University of Washington Housing and Food Services, Communications and Marketing Department. The Goal of this project was to find a solution to the issue of disorganized and decentralized information, which was causing significant delays and inconsistencies. This was accomplished through the Identification of a storage system which would better fit ConMar's needs as well as the creation of a taxonomy with which to organize the information stored.

To address rising textbook costs, California’s governor gave $20,000 to each community college to lay the foundation for establishing zero-textbook cost (ZTC) degree pathways. This project assists in building that foundation for Mendocino College by streamlining the textbook adoption process for faculty and increasing the accessibility and visibility of course materials in the discovery layer. By doing this, there are now centralized access points available to all users to find course materials. This project not only improves UX and UI of the library’s ILS, but also compiles existing information to later be used by the Institutional Research Office.

The Seattle Archdiocese Archives holds a collection of about 300 rare books from as early as the 16th century. Prior to our project, these materials were unorganized and therefore inaccessible. Throughout our time working with the collection, we assessed its contents, entered content metadata into an organized database, and ultimately made materials accessible to researchers. Our goal was to make the contents of the rare book collection findable and accessible through detailed organizational work and the development of a maintainable database.

This project entailed item-level cataloging of rare 78rpm shellac discs from the Offenbacher Mozart Collection at the UW Music Library, with a focus on materials recorded before 1923, which entered the public domain in 2022. After complete and accurate bibliographic records had been created, additional research and data remediation allowed a previously unidentified set of audio files to be associated with metadata and uploaded to the Internet Archive. Cataloging physical and digital elements from this unique research collection has created an unprecedented level of access to rare sound recordings from the early 20th century.

The Center for an Informed Public (CIP) has an enormous volume of data that has been collected for over a decade. This data spans hundreds of targeted and ongoing crisis events and has been sampled and archived in various ways. This capstone's objective is to make the CIP's research sharable, reproducible, and accessible. The result of this capstone is a web-based library with test datasets and documentation on how the CIP can start the process of creating their data library. The data library will help establish the CIP as a leading organization for social media-based research on misinformation and disinformation.

When the pandemic lockdown closed public libraries across Washington state, staff had to turn on a dime and evaluate their services and programs catering to users who could no longer access these spaces. Washington State Libraries collected data about services added or modified to accommodate patrons. Our team curated data for 60 city, rural, and island libraries in Washington state and presented our results in the form of a curated dataset, a data curation protocol, and a report. This collection serves as an archive of COVID-19 and 21st-century history and helps libraries and other public institutions prepare for future disasters.

The information problem to solve is scattered organizational data, the lack of data normalization and non-collaborative information system. Based on our user stories and Entity Relationship diagram, we created a database for Foundry10 hosted on Azure to store our database as a cloud solution. We utilized Microsoft Access as our front-end platform to communicate with the database. Benefits for our sponsor: Built solid foundation for consolidating internal data structure Create more consistent reports for staff; a database system will bring in data consistency Descriptive data normalization for efficient data analysis by reducing duplicates and organizing unstructured datasets

The Washington State Library pays over $400,000 each year to provide LinkedIn Learning to library patrons. LinkedIn Learning is an incredible online e-learning platform which provides access to courses. However, in light of "freely available" online learning platforms appearing, the state legislator has begun questioning the costs required to maintain the LinkedIn Learning partnership. As a result, the Washington State Library was asked to create a report and give it to the legislator outlining and evaluating the freely available alternatives out there, and comparing them to LinkedIn Learning. I made the report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EdWQBl5gUpw5J8ovHoocsYqOsdRi5dcysEiWRh49H1s