Scholarly Works

Archival Capstone: Crowdsourcing, Zooniverse, and Archives

This paper was written as one of the final components of my Archives and Special Collections Certificate. I enjoyed exploring the scholarly literature regarding the Zooniverse platform, which I have been a member of for several years. It was interesting to review the variety of projects that have been conducted on crowdsourcing platforms and how the concept has evolved over time.

Link to view my Archival Capstone paper here.

Service-Learning Partnership Website

This website collects some basic information about the service-learning project I completed with WGBH in the Fall of 2025. I worked with WGBH to perform a copyright review of digitized media so that it could be uploaded to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting's Online Reading Room. I am grateful for the opportunity to help make these recordings available to the public like never before.

Link to view my Service-Learning site here.

Digital Archive: Snapshot Archive

As part of Intro to Archival Theory and Practice, we were asked to create a digital archive. I chose to document some of the photographs I've collected over the years. In the following semester, I expanded the archive with contributions from two other classmates. I enjoyed collaborating with my classmates and getting to archive a collection of my own.

Link to view the digital archive here.

Library History Paper: Zines and Zine Libraries

This paper was intended to be a review of a portion of library history that was of interest to us. I learned a lot about conducting scholarly research from this paper, and continued to familiarize myself with APA formatting. It is interesting to look back on this paper and see how my writing and research have progressed.

Link to view my Library History Paper here.

Weeding Exercise

For my weeding exercise, I obtained data from the Upper Dublin Public Library and simulated the weeding of their Young Adult Nonfiction collection. I enjoyed having the opportunity to work with real data from a local library and learn more about collection development and management.

Link to view my weeding exercise here.