Inventorying for Archives
About our speaker:
As the Archives Specialist for the Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) program, Kate Philipson conducts on-site archival needs assessments and assists with archival and preservation planning. She also develops and presents educational programs and provides technical information to library and archival repositories in New York State.
Kate has previously worked as a Media Preservation Assistant in the New York University Library’s Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department; at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club Archives; the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Library and Archives; and served as an NYU Gallatin Global Fellow in Urban Practice to work with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Humboldt Park, Chicago on forming an archive of their community history. She also held various roles at Temple University’s Urban Archives and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Kate received her MA in Archives and Public History from NYU and her BA in Film and Media Arts and American Studies from Temple University.