Congratulations to Jessica Mlotkowski, the 2016 recipient of the Winberta Yao Travel Award from the Mountain West Chapter of ARLIS/NA!

 

Jessica earned her MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011, where her concentration was in the organization of information and materials.

 

Currently, Jessica is the Cataloger and Public Services Librarian at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), in Santa Fe, New Mexico. IAIA is the only four-year degree fine arts institution in the United States devoted to contemporary Native American and Alaska Native Arts.

 

Jessica’s academic focus has been on cataloging and metadata management for visual resources, as well as the role our cultural perspectives and perceptions play in the description and retrieval of those resources. Diversity, social justice, and bias in descriptive practices are themes that Jessica considers daily in her personal work.

In her letter of application, Jessica expressed the value of attending ARLIS/NA in Seattle, as she will have the opportunity to attend sessions on digitization projects, rights management, social justice, and diversity in our professional lives, and connecting collections to the open web. All of these themes will directly inform Jessica’s work at IAIA.

 

Please join us in welcoming Jessica Mlotkowski to our ARLIS/NA Mountain West Chapter and congratulating her on her upcoming attendance at the joint conference of ARLIS/NA and VRA in Seattle, Washington.

 

The Winberta Yao Travel Award Committee also wishes to extend special thanks to
all contributing chapter members who made the award possible. For more information about the award, visit http://arlisna-mw.lib.byu.edu/travel.html

 

Best regards, 

Margaret Van Dyk (Chair) and Caroline Dechert

The Winberta Yao Travel Award Committee