Patricia C. Franks - The Handbook of Archival Practice

Ackerson, Anne W.

Independent Consultant

Anne W. Ackerson is a former history museum director, director of the Museum Association of New York, and director of the national Council of State Archivists. She is currently an independent consultant to cultural and educational nonprofits, specializing in leadership, governance, and management issues. She is the coauthor of Leadership Matters and Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Workplace.

Entry: DEAI, Managing in the Workplace

Anderson, Bethany G.

Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bethany Anderson is the natural and applied sciences archivist at the University of Illinois Archives. In this role, Bethany works with units across the University of Illinois campus to document the scientific enterprise. She is especially interested in documenting women in science and technology, appraisal issues relating to scientific records, and exploring computational approaches to digital archival materials.

Entry: Macro-Appraisal

Arsenault, Jamie

Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Archives Manager, and Repatriation Representative

White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

Jaime Arsenault is the tribal historic preservation officer (THPO), archives manager, and repatriation representative for the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She is a Repatriation Review Committee member with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), and a member of the Advisory Committee and Collections Committee of the Peabody Institute of Archaeology.

Entry: Repatriation

Arthur, Catherine Rogers

Senior Curator & Director of Artistic Property

Maryland State Archives

Mrs. Arthur is a graduate of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and has overseen the state-owned art collection since 2016. Previously she was director and curator of Homewood Museum, Johns Hopkins University, for nearly twenty years. Before attending graduate school, she worked at the Maryland Historical Society. Her thesis focused on the reproduction furniture of Potthast Brothers, Inc. 18921975.

Entry: Monetary Appraisal

Ashley, Lori J.

Industry Market Development Manager

Preservica

Lori J. Ashley analyzes cross-industry and sector requirements to define digital preservation use cases that inform Preservicas marketing and product roadmap. She is codeveloper, with Dr. Charles Dollar, of a digital preservation capability maturity model (DPCMM) and web-based self-assessment tool (DigitalOK.org) that has been used by more than 250 organizations to educate, advocate, and advance electronic records preservation initiatives.

Entry: Cloud-Based Digital Preservation

Baron, Jason R.

Professor of the Practice

University of Maryland, College of Information Studies

Professor of the Practice, U. Maryland College of Information Studies (2020); Of Counsel, Faegre Drinker LLP (20132020); Director of Litigation, National Archives and Records Administration (20002013); Trial Attorney and Senior Counsel, US Department of Justice (19882000). BA magna cum laude, Wesleyan University, JD Boston University. Served as lead counsel on multiple high-profile lawsuits involving e-discovery and FOIA issues.

Entries: Electronic Discovery; Freedom of Information Act

Bastian, Jeannette A., PhD

Professor Emerita

Simmons University

Honorary Fellow

University of the West Indies, Department of Library and Information Science Studies archival educator. Former territorial librarian of the United States Virgin Islands.

Books: West Indian Literature, A Critical Index, 19301975 (Allis, 1982); Owning Memory, How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History (2003); Community Archives, The Shaping of Memory, ed. (2009); Decolonizing the Caribbean Record, An Archives Reader, ed. (2018); and Community Archives, Community Spaces, ed. (2019).

Entry: Microfilming (or Microphotography)

Bates, Sandra, BBA, CRA

Manager, Records & Access

Government of Saskatchewan

Sandra is a guru in digital transformation and recognized professional in the security, information, and privacy industries. Her passion is evident through her work within Crown Corporations and the executive government of Saskatchewan to develop and implement Enterprise Information Management Programs. She is an engaged industry volunteer as president-elect, ARMA Saskatchewan Chapter, while being actively involved in AIIM Digital Transformation groups.

Entries: Functional Classification; Physical Security

Bell, Mark S.

Senior Digital Researcher

The National Archives, UK

Mark Bell was a researcher on the ARCHANGEL blockchain project. Marks other research interests include the application of Machine Learning to archival challenges, and probabilistic record linkage.

Entry: Blockchain (for Archives)

Berish, Amy

Archivist

Rockefeller Archive Center

Amy Berish is a processing archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center. Aside from processing incoming collections, Amy develops digital media workflows and provides digital processing training to staff. She also works with the processing team to clean up and enhance legacy description using the ArchivesSpace API. Amy received her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.

Entry: Digital Forensics for Archives

Blackson, Maurice Richard, CA, MLIS, MaEd

Senior Lecturer in Archives and Special Collections

Central Washington University

Marty Blackson is senior lecturer in the Central Washington University Archives. A certified archivist, he holds a masters degree in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Washington, and a master of education from the University of New Mexico. He also has a bachelors degree in history from the University of Kentucky. Love of history makes working in archives a joy.

Entries: Reading Room; Reference Interview

Brett, Jeremy, CA

Processing Archivist and Curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection

Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University

Jeremy Brett is an archivist, librarian, and curator at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University. He has also worked for the Wisconsin Historical Society, the National Archives and Records Administration, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Iowa. He helped write the original Reapparaisal & Deaccessioning Guidelines for the Society of American Archivists.

Entry: Reappraisal and Deaccessioning

Bryan, Ruth E., CA

University Archivist

University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center

Ruth E. Bryan (she/her), CA, is university archivist in the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center (Lexington, KY, USA). A certified archivist, Ruth holds an MA (public history) from North Carolina State University and an MA (anthropology) from New School University. She works with donor relations, appraisal, collection management, and public services. See her publications at https://works.bepress.com/ruthbryan/.

Entry: Appraisal

Carpenter, William C., PhD

Senior Program Analyst

Information Security Oversight Office

National Archives and Records Administration

William C. Carpenter has led the staff of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel at the National Archives and Records Administration since 2007. He has over twenty-five years of experience in declassification at the Department of the Army, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, and the National Security Council.