Tomaro I. 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 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 is the President of the Society of Florida Archivists. She is a member of the
Society of American Archivists 2012 Program Committee, chair of the SAA's Student
Program Subcommittee, member of the Academy of Certified Archivists' Petition Review
Team and Newsletter Editor for the Society of Florida Archivists. 

Presentations

Learning Archives: Archival Practice within the Context of Pedagogical Settings (with Chris D'Arpa and Jean Carey), Southern Archivists Conference (2012)
 

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Archives and Records Management: A Long History (with Gail Donovan), Florida Gulf Coast ARMA Chapter Event (2012)
 

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)
 

Book Chapters

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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)
 

Articles

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Why a Residency or Fellowship Might be Right for You, LISCareer.com: Career Strategies for Librarians (2006)
 

Unpublished Works

Publications in Review

Connecting to Marginalized Groups through Web 2.0, Archives Diversity Reader (2011)
 

Other

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Autism Spectrum Disorders LibGuide (with Leonah Arroyo) (2012)