Contributions to Books
Organizing and Indexing Photo Collections, Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials (2012)
Historical photo archives or collections can put an organization on the map and make it...
Presentations
Staff Sourcing for Digitization, 2012 Annual Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Conference (2012)
A session detailing the outsourcing of metadata creation for digitization to reference staff members at...
Collaboration with CONTENTdm: Building Local History Collections (with Emily Pfotenhauer), 4th Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting (2011)
An exploration of collaboration between institutions for the creation of digital collections using CONTENTdm. Wisconsin...
No Muss, No Fuss: EAD Finding Aids without XML, 3rd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting (2010)
Digital finding aids increase use and visibility of special collections materials, but many programs or...
Pitfalls and Pratfalls: The WAA Collection at the Milwaukee Public Library, 2nd Annual Upper Midwest CONTENTdm User Group Meeting (2009)
An overview of the Milwaukee Public Library's attempt to digitize building plans and architectural drawings...
Projects
Historic Recipe File (Digital Collection) (2011)
For over 20 years, from the 1960s until the 1980s, librarians at the Milwaukee Public...
Horace Seaman Wisconsin Infantry (Digital Collections) (2010)
The Horace Seaman Wisconsin Infantry collection is made up primarily of photos from Colonel Horace...
Milwaukee County Marriage Certificates (Digital Collection) (2010)
In the 1960s a box of marriage certificates created between 1822 and 1876 was found...
Milwaukee Public Library Special Collections Finder (Digital Collection) (2010)
The Milwaukee Public Library has many special collections. These special collections exist both within MPL's...
Milwaukee Waterways (Digital Collection) (2010)
Milwaukee Waterways illustrates the role Lake Michigan and Milwaukee's rivers have played in the history...
Thesis
The Why of the Beholder: An Analysis of the Use of Art Image Databases by Art Historians (2007)
In the field of art history, there is a great potential for the use of...