At LACMA’s Balch Research Library and Archives, I processed and described the museum’s historical press release collection. I created a full finding aid using ArchivesSpace and published it to the Online Archive of California (OAC), making the collection publicly searchable for the first time. I also authored a blog post for the LACMA site contextualizing the collection and its significance for researchers and the public.

Alongside this traditional archival work, I also helped revitalize the museum’s unused digital asset management system (CONTENTdm). I completed training, documented system workflows, and created a 100-page internal guide to support sustainable digitization and record upload moving forward. I also created Python scripting to streamline file formatting and ingest content for uploading into the system.

This experience reflects my ability to bridge hands-on archival processing with technical infrastructure to ensure collections are not only described, but accessible, structured, and built to last.