Shiraz Bhathena
Shiraz Bhathena is a Digital Archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a BA from UW-Milwaukee in Conceptual Studies of Film and an MA in from UCLA in Moving Image Archive Studies. Prior to working for UWM, he worked as a Video Archivist and Post Production Specialist for the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, an Element Preparation Technician for Chace Audio by Deluxe, and a Collections Coordinator for the Sundance Institute. He’s also worked as an Asset Analysis for Sony Pictures, a Collection Curator for the UCLA Film and Television Archive, an Assistant Curator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Adam Brisk
Adam T. Brisk is the Online Learning and Outreach Librarian for the Kathryn A. Martin Library at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His role lets him split time between technology and events, web-pages and workshops, spreadsheets and catering orders. He has served at UMD since 2014 with previous stints in libraries and IT at Grinnell College, Marshall School, Wisconsin Indianhead Technology College, and SOIS at UW-Milwaukee. He loves idea generation and the subsequent opportunities for collaboration and partnership. A lifelong history buff and archives advocate, Adam loves sharing the joy of paper indexes, spreadsheets, clipping files, dp.la, citation tracking, Omeka, mapmaking, and microfilm. Adam is a founding member of the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, a regional library organization. He is an avid biker, hiker, reader, gamer and portager of canoes.
Amy Cooper Cary
Amy Cooper Cary is Head of Special Collections and University Archives at Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Library. She was the Director of the Archival Studies program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies for seven years and continues to teach as an adjunct instructor in their program. Amy is active in the Society of American Archivists, the Midwest Archives Conference, and serves as the Reviews Editor for RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage.
Erin Dix
Erin Dix is the University Archivist at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI through June 2019. She has been in this position since 2010, overseeing the operations of the LU Archives and serving on a team of reference librarians. Her professional interests include teaching with primary sources and digital preservation. She holds an M.A. in LIS with a specialization in archives and records administration from the UW-Madison iSchool and a B.A. in music and history from Lawrence University. In summer 2019 Erin will be relocating to southeastern Wisconsin, where her husband’s family owns and operates an apple orchard. But she plans to remain connected to the library/archives field.
Jesse Henderson
Jesse Henderson is a Digital Services Librarian at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) where she manages the production of digital assets for the collections. She has been at UWDCC since late 2013. Previously she was the Visual Resources Curator at Colgate University from 2006 through 2013. At UWDCC Jesse manages a production team and the majority of projects that flow through their shop. She is responsible for working with stakeholders, upgrades and maintenance of reformatting equipment, as well as setting and implementing digitization standards. Additionally, her love of FileMaker Pro has helped to influence the way their team keeps track of projects as they flow through their shop, how handoffs are communicated, and how they gather statistics on tasks associated with digital production, which help to create cost estimates and production timelines. Jesse has an MLIS from McGill University (’06) and a BA in Art from the University of Iowa (’01).
Cat Phan
Cat Phan is the Digital and Media Archivist at the University Archives of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been in this position since December 2016, collecting, processing, preserving, and facilitating access to digital, image, and audiovisual content for the University Archives. She has recently played major roles in the implementation of ArchivesSpace and Aeon, leads digitization projects, and manages several outreach initiatives for the Archives, including its social media efforts and the Student Historian in Residence program. Prior to her position at the University Archives, Cat was the Metadata Librarian at the UW Digital Collections Center where she managed the design, production, and maintenance of metadata for digital collections of all kinds.
Scott Prater
Scott Prater is the Digital Library Analyst for the University of Wisconsin – Madison General Library System. In his current position, he manages digital collections infrastructure development, helps shape digital library services strategy, and directs the implementation of UW Madison’s nascent digital preservation environment. Scott has meandered into these roles over the course of a library information technology career that has included stints as a systems administrator, software developer, project manager, and sometimes IT jack-of-all-trades. He has an MA in Russian Literature and Language from the University of Pittsburgh and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin.
Heather Stecklein
Heather Stecklein is the Director of the UW-Stout Archives and Area Research Center in Menomonie, Wisconsin. She has been at the UW-Stout since 2012 and previously served as Archivist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Heather’s professional interests include contextualized learning with archival resources, long-term digital asset management, and augmented reality interpretation of historical resources. She was the 2018 recipient of the Barnard Outstanding Service Award. Heather is looking forward to playing bass clarinet this summer with the Ludington Guard Band’s outdoor concert series. She shares her home with her husband, two daughters, two parakeets, and a fish named Rainbow.
Sarah Titus
Sarah Titus is the Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Her role in the archives involves organizing, preserving and sharing historical pieces both from the college’s history and that of the Norbertine Order. She has recently been implementing initiatives around web archiving, digitizing obsolete media and creating contextual frameworks for documenting bias and historical discrimination as found in the archives. Sarah is also the project manager for the Digital Commons@SNC, the college’s institutional repository, a cross-campus initiative launched in April 2016, which holds faculty and student research, open education resources, official campus documents, and archival material that draws both from the institution’s history and its Norbertine heritage.
Hannah Wang
Hannah Wang is the Electronic Records & Digital Preservation Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), where she works with Wisconsin state agencies to manage, transfer, and preserve their electronic records. She also coordinates born-digital processing workflows and digital preservation planning for the archives at WHS. In addition to her work at WHS, she has taught Introduction to Archives & Records Management as an associate lecturer for the UW-Madison iSchool. Hannah has a master’s degree in Information Science from UNC-Chapel Hill.
