I am currently in my second year of the Dual Master’s Degree program, pursuing an MSLIS from the Palmer School/LIU, with a specialization in Rare Books and Special Collections, and an MA in Archives from NYU. In May 2012, I graduated from Fordham College at Lincoln Center with a BA in History and Anthropology. While at Fordham I undertook various digital humanities projects, including a visual reinterpretation of the Salem Witch Trials and digital text analysis of pamphlets circulated during the American Revolution. I also worked as a metadata assistant in Fordham’s Digital Library Collections.
I began interning in libraries and archives as an undergraduate. I was an archival assistant at both the Staten Island History Archives & Library of the Staten Island Museum and the New York Society For Ethical Culture. In my senior year I interned at the Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History, where I chronicled my experiences in its Hidden Collections blog.
I now work at the Fales Library & Special Collections and the University Archives, both located inside NYU’s Bobst Library. I process mainly media materials for Fales’ Downtown collections and institutional records at the University Archives. Archival advocacy greatly interests me as a student and emerging professional. Much of my research investigates how archivists and librarians use blogs, wikis, Facebook, Twitter, and other Web technologies to increase public knowledge of and access to collections materials.
[…] Note: A brief statement regarding Ms. Vignone can be found in the Contributor section of: Researching Greenwich Village History, Companion site to Creating Digital History (NYU GA HIST.2033) https://greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cristina-vignone/ […]