Innovative Digital Preservation Project Earns Scholarship for Archivist

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The Russell Library at Maynooth University in Ireland.

Kayleigh Ferguson ’20 received the Hume Scholarship at Maynooth University in Ireland, where she will research to promote improved access and preservation of cultural heritage sources. Ferguson’s fully funded PhD work will enhance the metadata, then catalog and digitize a collection of music in the university’s Russell Library. She gained valuable digital archiving experience as a Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation grant recipient at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science.