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Andrew W.

Digital Initiatives Librarian - University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

Overview 

Andrew W. is a Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Idaho with a Master of Library & Information Science. He has a background in digital media editing, archiving, and digital pedagogy, and has worked at institutions like University of Oregon and University of Washington. With experience at BlackPast.org and Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, Andrew has honed skills in data migration, data visualization, and web design. Currently, he focuses on developing Python tools, oral history transcription tools, and data visualization, contributing significantly to the university's digital initiatives.

Work Experience 

  • Digital Initiatives Librarian

    2023 - Current

    I work within the Digital Scholarship and Open Strategies (DSOS), creating and maintaining our digital collections, collaborating with both student and faculty with fellowship recipients to create research sites, helping to rethink workflow processes and introducing new digital scholarship tools to the department.

  • Digital Rights & Media Manager

    2023 - 2023

    Review existing digital media assets and develop a list of their archival sources; Replace existing images with higher resolution versions; Create systems for tracking permission, copyright, and other credit information; Upload and assigning video and audio clips to appropriate articles on BlackPast.org in collaboration with editorial staff

  • Writer

    2023 - 2023

    Creating a visual resources based article on the history of Filipino cannery labor.

  • Digital Media Editor

    2022 - 2023

    Reviewing existing digital media assets and developing a list of their archival sources; Replacing existing images with higher resolution versions; Creating systems for tracking permission, copyright, and other credit information; Uploading and assigning video and audio clips to appropriate articles on HistoryLink in collaboration with editorial staff;

  • Archivist

    2021 - 2023

    I worked with Anna Trammell and Spencer Bowman on multiple archiving projects over this period, beginning with surveying and highlighting the Richards Collection through a grant with the Visual Resources Association Foundation. Details of the process and findings can be read on the site I created for the project here: https://aweymo.github.io/VRAF_RC.2/. Following this, I worked as a processing archivist for the Murray Morgan Papers and a born digital visual resources for the Lost Tacoma collection. I created a site for that project which can be viewed here: https://aweymo.github.io/losttacoma/ Finally, I worked with this team to digitize and arrange the Willits Brothers Canoe Company collection, a collaborative project with Maritime Washington which can be viewed on the library's Orca site here: https://northwestroom.tacomalibrary.org/index.php/willits-brothers-canoe-company-records

  • Digital Pedagogy Specialist

    2021 - 2022

    Sharing text mining, topic modeling, digital exhibit development and digital storytelling tools with students and faculty to help present their research in dynamic and engaging ways.

  • Territory Assistant

    2018 - 2021

    Responsible for ordering for KEHE locations from Seattle to Olympia.

  • Digital Publishing

    2021 - 2021

    Designed and published the Digital Humanity syllabus of UW Professor and Egyptologist Sarah Ketchley using the Pressbooks platform.

  • Archivist

    2020 - 2020

    Responsible for digitizing, cataloguing and creating metadata for the collection. Short duration due to pandemic.

  • Archives Assistant

    2018 - 2019

    I was responsible for creating a digital archive for the Lakewold Gardens. This entailed learning to digitize 16 and 32mm film in addition to documenting the text and photography collections. I created descriptions and imported data via CSV.*

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