Public Writing
The following articles were written for a general audience and posted on the websites of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress, and the University of Michigan.
University of Michigan
- “Managing internal nomination and peer review processes to reduce bias,” whitepaper prepared for University of Michigan Office of Research with Nick Wigginton, Tabbye Chavous, and Eric Shaw (February 2021). Available at https://myumi.ch/K4p5P.
Library of Congress
- Making a Valuable Resource Even Better: The Recommended Formats Statement and RFS 2.0, post with Kate Murray, Marcus Nappier, & Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, The Signal (11 June 2020)
- Launching the Digital Collections Management Compendium, Library of Congress, The Signal (11 October 2019)
- In the Library’s Web Archives: Sorting through a Set of US Government PDFs, Library of Congress, The Signal (6 March 2019)
- Born to Be 3D: Born-Digital Data Stewardship, Library of Congress, The Signal (7 December 2018)
- Recap of Born to Be 3D Forum Hosted by the Library of Congress, post with Kate Murray, Digital Preservation Coalition Blog (26 November 2018)
- Building Digital Content Management Capacity with Library Carpentry, Library of Congress, The Signal (9 November 2018)
National Endowment for the Humanities
- Common Heritage Update: NEH Continues Support for Community Archives in 2018 (14 December 2017)
- Common Heritage 2017 Guidelines and Applicant Webinar (12 April 2017)
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Learn More about NEH Grants Supporting Audiovisual Materials (26 October 2016)
- Tune In Tuesdays: Music Time in Africa (13 September 2016)
- Tune In Tuesdays: Preserving the American Black Journal (23 August 2016)
- Tune in Tuesdays: Local Records, Global Sounds: Historic Recordings of the Upper Midwest (12 July 2016)
- Documenting the LGBT Movement (29 June 2016)
- NEH’s First Community Archiving Program is Underway (2 March 2016)
- Training Cultural Heritage Workers for Disaster Preparedness and Response (1 May 2015)
- NEH and the Preservation and Access of Audiovisual Cultural Heritage (10 March 2015)
- Preservation Week 2014: Education and Training (28 April 2014)
- Agricultural Literature and Rural Life (15 March 2014)
- Summer Road Trip to Nevada and Arizona (Museums in the Southwest) (5 August 2013)
- Voices for the Future: California Language Archive Documents Linguistic Heritage, co-written with Helen Agüera (27 June 2013)
- Preserving Asian-American History and Culture (7 May 2013)
The preceding pieces, listed in reverse chronological order, are links to Web publications from my tenure at the National Endowment for the Humanities (2013–2017) and the Library of Congress (2018–2020). These aren’t complete without a few thank yous! I was the primary author of the NEH pieces, but they represent significant collaborative efforts and received substantial support from many NEH grantees and NEH editors, particularly Ralph Canevali, Cathleen Tefft, Adriana Cutler, Joel Wurl, and Leah Weinryb Grohsgal. The posts published at Library of Congress were much stronger with input from, and frequent co-authorship with, Kate Murray, Trevor Owens, Aly DesRochers, Jaime Mears, Chase Dooley, Grace Thomas, and Carlyn Osborn.