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20-minute papers on the topic, “Architectures of Resilience”
Part of the Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene:
A Colloquium, 2017
Presenter Info
Paulina Mickiewicz
Paulina Mickiewicz is currently a Visiting Research Fellow with the Frost Centre at Trent University. She completed a Ph.D. in Communication Studies at McGill University and is trained in critical communication and media studies, with a special focus on cultural institutions and their place within an increasingly digital and networked environment.
Presentation title: “The Library of 2114”
Charlie Macquarie
Charlie Macquarie is an artist and experimental librarian, whose creative practice takes the form of the Library of Approximate Location — an ongoing itinerant project engaging with the confounding nature of environmental materiality and its disparate networks in the Western United States through the installation of site-specific libraries. He also works as a digital archivist at the Bancroft Library, and is librarian in residence at the Prelinger Library.
Presentation title: “Libraries, Landscapes, Stewardship: The Library of Approximate Location”
Eira Tansey
Eira Tansey is the Digital Archivist/Records Manager for the University of Cincinnati, where she is responsible for the university’s records management program, and born-digital archives. Her research interests include the intersection of archives, the environment, and climate change.
Presentation title: (with Ben Goldman, Tara Mazurczyk, and Nathan Piekielek) “Climate Control: Vulnerabilities of American Archives to Rising Seas, Hotter Days and More Powerful Storms”
Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman is the Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations and Digital Records Archivist in the University Libraries at Penn State University. He is responsible for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to digital collections, and administers the Libraries’ web archiving program.
Presentation title: (with Eira Tansey, Tara Mazurczyk, and Nathan Piekielek) “Climate Control: Vulnerabilities of American Archives to Rising Seas, Hotter Days and More Powerful Storms”
Tara Mazurczyk
Tara Mazurczyk is a PhD student in the department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University, specializing in wetland environments, ecosystem services, and landscape vulnerabilities as they relate to climate change. Tara’s academic training and work experience have included stormwater management, GIS land-use modeling, landscape ecology, environmental assessment and analysis, and community design.
Presentation title: (with Eira Tansey, Ben Goldman, and Nathan Piekielek) “Climate Control: Vulnerabilities of American Archives to Rising Seas, Hotter Days and More Powerful Storms”
Nathan Piekielek
Nathan Piekielek is the Geospatial Services Librarian at Penn State. He supports spatial research and teaching of all university departments and units from a centralized location within the University Libraries. Eira Tansey is the Digital Archivist/Records Manager for the University of Cincinnati, where she is responsible for the university’s records management program, and born-digital archives. Her research interests include the intersection of archives, the environment, and climate change.
Presentation title: (with Eira Tansey, Ben Goldman, and Tara Mazurczyk) “Climate Control: Vulnerabilities of American Archives to Rising Seas, Hotter Days and More Powerful Storms”
Mark Wolfe
Mark Wolfe worked as the Project Coordinator on the U.S. InterPARES Project from 2003 to 2006. Since 2007, he has worked as a Curator of Digital Collections at the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Presentation title: “Efficiency: Friend or Foe or Sustainability? Exploring the Impact of Jevons Paradox on the Archival Profession”