Megan McShea, archivist

Megan McShea (she/her) is an independent archivist based in Baltimore, MD. Current projects focus on archival processing, metadata, digitization, digital asset management and preservation, and workflow development. Current clients include Afro Charities (stewards of the AFRO American Newspaper Archives) and the Human Studies Film Archives (Smithsonian Institution). She has taught workshops on archival processing, archival description, and working with audiovisual materials through the Society of American Archivists, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Community Archives Program at the University of Baltimore, the Digital Preservation Education and Outreach Network, and Maintenance Culture: Sustaining Digital Creative Works.

Prior to working independently, she was the first Audiovisual Archivist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, where she developed practices in a manuscript repository setting around audiovisual collection management, processing, digitization, and preservation, and co-founded AVAIL, the Smithsonian's collaborative, pan-institutional staff group for audiovisual archivists.

She holds an MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.

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