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Jessica Venlet – Library Fellow for Digital Archives

In October we welcomed Jessica Venlet to the Institute Archives as our two-year Library Fellow for Digital Archives [see prior post].  Since joining us, she has been learning about the MIT Libraries by meeting with staff from across the departments, engaging in work with the Digital Sustainability Lab, and jumping into existing digital archives infrastructure work as well as conducting background and analysis in some new areas.  Her work will expand and build upon the already established foundations of our digital archives program.jmvenlet

Her Archive Hour blog serves two purposes for her professional development during the Fellow experience.  As she writes on her blog’s About page,

“The first is a structured way to keep up on my professional reading and place my work within the professional landscape. Each week, I set aside “coffee hours” during which I will read a technical report, article from an information science journal, or blog posts from peers. After reading, I’ll post a short response. The second part of this blog will be a record of projects I’ll be working on as part of the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections team.”   [https://archivehour.wordpress.com/about/]

Jessica is a 2014 graduate of the University of Michigan, School of Information, with an MIS degree and a specialization in Library and Information Science and Preservation of Information.  She has a BA in English literature from Aquinas College.  Jessica was most recently a digital processing assistant at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library and previously spent time as an electronic records intern at the Michigan State University Library.


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