Laura Farley holds her M.A. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked in diverse libraries and archives from cultural heritage institutions to federal depositories; including the The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, The Chicago History Museum, and The Wisconsin Historical Society, and the National Transportation Library at the US DOT. She is currently a Digital Curation Librarian in the People's Archive at the DC Public Library.
Siobhan Hagan holds her M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has worked in a variety of collecting organizations throughout her career, including the UCLA Library, the National Aquarium, and the Smithsonian Institute. She is currently the Project Manager of the Memory Lab Network at the DC Public Library.
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