Tomaro Taylor began her career at the University of South Florida (USF) as a student, receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology (1998) and American Studies (2001) and a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science (2002). In 2003, Tomaro accepted the inaugural appointment to the USF Libraries' Dr. Henrietta M. Smith Residency, an academic library fellowship program that provides two-year visiting faculty lines for members of underrepresented ethnic and minority populations. Prior to completing the program, Tomaro was appointed to a faculty position in Special Collections (currently, Special and Digital Collections), where she most recently served as curator of archives, personal papers, manuscripts and related collections. She joined the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute's Research Library in May 2010. A Certified Archivist, Tomaro has led the implementation of standardized archival arrangement and description as well as the use of EAD (Encoded Archival Description) both departmentally and system-wide. She currently is working with colleagues from other institutions to develop best practices for collections processing. Tomaro serves as a member of the Society of American Archivists 2012 Program Committee and as chair of the Student Program Subcommittee. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists' Exam Development Committee and serves as Vice President and Newsletter Editor for the Society of Florida Archivists.
Publications - Articles
Why a Residency or Fellowship Might be Right for You, LISCareer.com: Career Strategies for Librarians (2006)
A brief discussion of academic library residency programs with an emphasis on the benefits such...
Changing the Faces of Librarianship: The Dr. Henrietta M. Smith Residency at USF, Florida Libraries (2005)
This article provides a history of the University of South Florida Libraries' Residency program, in...
Publications - Book Chapters
Affiliation Agreements, Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers and Related Materials (2012)
Special Collections as an Integral Part of a Library's Diversity Initiative (with Lorel K. Reinstrom), Achieving Diversity: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (2006)
Presentations
Learning Archives: Archival Practice within the Context of Pedagogical Settings (with Chris D'Arpa and Jean Carey), Southern Archives Conference (2012)
The classroom - as place - serves as a physiological and psychological barrier to the...
Is There an Archivist in the House? How Health Information Technologies are Changing Archival Practice (with Phoebe Evans Letocha, Melanie Meyers, and Scott Grimwood), Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (2011)
From such traditional considerations of confidentiality to the more modern issues of HIPAA and health...
Web 2.0 and Underrepresented Communities, SALALM LV (2010)
Paper presented as part of the panel session "Beyond Institutional Borders: Archivists Document Underrepresented Communities."...
Colecciones Especiales: USF's Documentary Heritage of Tampa's Immigrant Communities, 55th Annual SECOLAS Conference (2008)
Unpublished Works
Basic Archives Processing Manual for Student Employees and Volunteers (2010)
A step-by-step guide for the arrangement and description of archival collections. Developed for individuals new...
Archon User Guide for USF Special Collections (2008)
User guide for Archon 2.2. "Basic Archives Processing Manual for Student Employees and Volunteers" provides...
Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers: A Processing Manual (2007)
A technical manual for arranging, describing and promoting archival and related collections. Developed for professionals...
Other
Sheet Music Collections [at the USF Libraries] (Podcast) (2010)
Web feature highlighting the USF Special and Digital Collections' sheet music collections, including an overview...
Ediciones Vigía (Podcasts) (2007)
English- and Spanish-language web features highlighting the USF Tampa Library's collection of works created by...