Kathy Boguszewski and Kristin Arnold, Rock County Historical Society
Kathy Boguszewski graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio with a B.S. in Elementary Education and from UW-Madison with a Masters Degree in Library and Information Studies. She has over 50 years experience in K-16 education. She currently volunteers at the Rock County Historical Society, primarily as the Volunteer/Internship Recruiter and Historical Interpreter. She is also a Guided Inquiry Design (GID) professional developer and collaborates with the humanities teacher at Rock University High School to incorporate GID into the students’ National History Day Projects.
Kristin Arnold joined the Rock County Historical Society staff in May 2017 as the archives manager, overseeing the projects and research conducted at the Charles Tallman Archives. She graduated from Calvin College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and German and is currently working towards her Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies with a special focus on archives at UW-Madison. When she’s not rediscovering old photographs or exploring plat maps at the archives, she enjoys playing board games, going on bike rides with her husband, and listening to K-pop music.
Scott Brouwer, La Crosse Public Library Archives
I am the Archivist at the La Crosse Public Library Archives. I earned my MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies and an M.A. in history from UWM as well.
I have been in my current position for 5 years and enjoy the many things I am involved in including: website management, digital content management, research assistance, media consulting, photo scanning/metadata creation, and local history reference. I am also heavily involved with public programming which includes the Footsteps of La Crosse architectural walking tours, the FilmFreaks film screening program, La Crosse History Hunt (scavenger hunts), Badger Detectives 4th grade educational program, and the Dark La Crosse suite of programs – trolley tours, walking tours, and an annual stage production with new content each year.
Bethany Huse, College of Menominee Nation/Menominee Public Library
Bethany Huse has worked at the College of Menominee Nation’s S. Verna Fowler Academic Library/Menominee Public Library since September 2016 as a Librarian. Half of her time is spent with her ‘upstairs’ duties: ILL, circulation, cataloging, problem items, and more, while the other half is spent in the Special Collections. Her work in the Special Collections focuses on continuing the formation of collections from donations, research requests, updating online presence, maintaining the current collections, and more. Before working at this library, Bethany worked at a variety of places, notably as a paraprofessional at a middle school, a facilitator/tutor at Fox Valley Technical College, and as a Library Aide at Kimberly-Little Chute Public Library.
Bethany graduated from UW-Madison in 2011 with a BA in English. While considering a few different programs for an additional degree, Bethany found an article on librarians and the personalities that fit the career well. She quickly looked for online degree programs and found Drexel University. Bethany attended Drexel University online from 2014-2016, graduated with a Master of Library and Information Science, concentrations of Digital Libraries and Archival Studies.
Amanda Lee, Outagamie Waupaca Library System
Amanda Lee is the OWLSnet Manager based in Appleton, Wisconsin. OWLSnet provides services to a shared consortium of libraries from the Nicolet Federated Library System and the Outagamie Waupaca Library System. Her main duties include managing the integrated library system and coordinating the support and hosting of local digital content. She values discoverability and accessibility, so she is excited to be part of this initiative to make these collections available and to preserve them.
Amanda graduated from UW-Green Bay in 2004 with a BA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing. For 10 years after that she worked as the Acquisitions and Cataloging Assistant for Lawrence University, before she decided to go back to grad school. She graduated from UW-Madison in 2017 with her MLIS with a concentration in Organization of Information. She enjoys learning about new technologies, reading stories about ghosts, watching sci-fi, and running very slowly.
Amy Meyer, Manitowoc County Historical Society
Amy Meyer is the Executive Director of the Manitowoc County Historical Society, a 60 acre outdoor interpretive museum that recreates a rural Wisconsin village at the turn of the 20th century. Originally from rural Grimms (Manitowoc County), Amy began with the Manitowoc County Historical Society in 2007 as an intern following her Junior year at Marquette University. After graduation, Amy returned home and volunteered for MCHS until her volunteer role turned into a part-time Program Coordinator position in 2008. From 2008 to 2013 Amy worked as the Society’s Program Coordinator, assisting with public and school programs, temporary exhibits, collections care, and general operations. In 2013, she transitioned into her role as the museum’s Executive Director and oversees over 100 volunteers, 36 historic structures, and an archives collection of over 65,000 items.
Tamera Schutz and Sarah Beer, Barron County Historical Society
Tamera Schutz has been the Executive Director of the Barron County Historical Society’s Pioneer Village Museum since the fall of 2015. She is a 1996 graduate of UW-Stout. Her background is in marketing and management, and she has found the transition from business to working at a nonprofit living history museum both challenging and rewarding. The museum has seen substantial growth during the time she has been involved with it. Tamera is a Master Gardener Volunteer and a Rice Lake Chamber Ambassador. She enjoys vegetable gardening, boating, biking, and traveling. One of the benefits of this position, is that during the last couple of winters, she has been able to work from Mexico and Belize. Her life-long dream is to hike the Appalachian Trail.
Sarah Beer holds a degree in Public History from UW-Eau Claire. She has been the Assistant Director of the Pioneer Village Museum for just over a year, and will be there for another year before she intends to go to graduate school for a Library and Information Studies degree, with a specialty in Digital Archiving. She is passionate about history and loves sharing it as much as she does preserving it. When she’s not elbow-deep in 100-year-old papers and pictures, she like to bike, cook, travel, and cheer on the Green and Gold.
