In 2013-2014, I completed a twelve-month contract with Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard Library, in support of a project within the Garden Archives. I served on a small team of librarians who advised web developers on the features and functionality of a custom-built digital repository to deliver digitized archival material from Beatrix Farrand’s papers concerning the Dumbarton Oaks gardens.

My contributions included over 1,000 hours of usability testing and collaborative development work. I cataloged over 700 item-level images descriptions for the Garden Archives, trained and supervised part-time staff in digitization workflows, wrote and edited portions of the workflow manual, guided researchers in use of the collections, and conducted research of my own in support of the website we were building.

I researched and wrote more than 300 of the encyclopedia and garden room entries—see biographies—found on the archives site today. Any essay you find with citations dated 2013-2014 is one that I authored.