Contents: Workshops and Presentations | Exhibits | Student Fellowship Projects | Scholarly Publications | Other Writing | Press

Andrew Weymouth is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at University of Idaho, primarily focusing on static web design to curate the institution’s special collections and partner with faculty and graduate students on fellowship projects. He has also created digital scholarship projects for the universities of Oregon, Washington and the Tacoma Northwest Room archives, ranging from long form audio public history to architectural databases and network visualizations. He writes about labor, architecture, underrepresented communities and using digital scholarship methods to survey equity in archival collections.

Workshops and Presentations

• Humanizing Nature Research History with Static Web Technology Presentation for UCLA Library's Captivity: Assembling Nature’s Histories detailing my experience creating interpretive materials for the Taylor Wilderness Research Station digital collection, Spring 2024.
• Collaborating with Community Archives to Increase Access to Collections Created for the 2024 Northwest Archivist conference, this presentation details my experience collaborating with the Filipino American National Historical Society to create an article on the Alaskero migratory laborers, and explores being mindful of bias when engaging with community heritage spaces that don't look or function like institutional archives, Spring 2024.
• The Tideflats: Distance and Environmental Psychology Presentation for the Society of Architectural Historians 2024 conference on the history of land use in the industrial Tacoma, Washington Tideflats, exploring themes of urban development and environmental psychology, Fall 2024.
• Using Digital Scholarship to Conduct and Present Historical Research A revised version of the Humanizing Nature Research History presentation for Ellen Kittell's History 209 class, to introduce undergraduate students to digital scholarship concepts. University of Idaho, Spring 2024.
• Sourcing Copyright Free Media Workshop Workshop created for Exploring the Information Landscape series, hosted on customized CollectionBuilder Workshop template. University of Idaho, Winter 2024.

Exhibits

• The Taylor Wilderness Research Station Archive Scientific archive of the University of Idaho's Taylor Wilderness Research Station, featuring oral histories, bibliometric visualizations and geographic / oral history hybrid animation. Spring, 2024
• The Tideflats Long form audio documentary about distance and civic infrastructure, examining the history and present use of the Tacoma Tideflats, created for the University of Washington Storytelling Fellows. Summer, 2022
• Lost Tacoma; Demolished and Unbuilt Architecture on the Puget Sound Project with the Tacoma Northwest Room archive to curate a series of blueprints for buildings in Pierce County that were designed and never built or built and have since been demolished. Spring, 2022
• Mapping Language: Representation of Immigrant Communities in the Pacific Northwest, 1880-1930 Capstone project for the University of Washington MLIS, created in sponsorship with the Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room on changing ethnic representation in mass media. Spring, 2022
• Middle East and North Africa Illustrated Site created for University of Washington Near Eastern Languages professor Selim Kuru to curate a database of graphic novels. Spring, 2022
• Richards Studio Collection Site created for the 2021 Visual Resources Association Foundation grant to survey and highlight the Tacoma Public Library's 500,000+ item Richards Studio Collection. Fall, 2021
• Emma B. Andrews Diary Project Network Visualization Tools Collaborative fieldwork with Sarah Ketchley at the University of Washington and the University of Toronto to create a network visualization of a multi-volume text repository. Summer, 2021.
• Mary Hillaire and the Lummi Nation: Self Determination Digital Exhibit and long form audio documentary on the life of Lummi higher education reformer Mary Hillaire. Spring, 2019

Student Fellowship Projects

• Alice Coltrane, Jazz Spiritualism Guidance and Oral History as Data audio visualization for 2024 Berry Fellow Irene Koreski, on the life of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer and composer. University of Idaho, Spring, 2024.

• Chestnut Collective Exhibit design and network visualization for Nick Koenig's CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship. University of Idaho, Winter, 2023.

Scholarly Publications

• Civilizing, Separating and Organizing: The Geographic Influence on Nineteenth Century Western Libraries Opening chapter to Land in Libraries Litwin Publishing. Fall, 2023
• Methods for Collecting Oral Histories Amidst a Crisis Qualitative research project set out to understand the effectiveness of ‘historical distance’ in conducting oral history programs during times of crisis. Winter, 2021

Other Writing

• Through a Filipino Lens: Washington State Cannery Workers in Alaska Article on the history of Filipino cannery workers and their movement between Washington state and Alaska. Research involved optimizing small scale photographs and using open source chronolocation and geolocation tools to identify Alaskan landmarks which added context to the industrial and social environment on Kodiak Island. Maritime Washington, Fall, 2023
• Tacoma's Northern Pacific Hospital Article on the history of Tacoma’s Northern Pacific Hospital, the westernmost post of one of the oldest, most enduring prepaid health care systems in America. Research involved oral history interviews, text mining and data visualizations of hospital records to help shed light on the impact of ethnicity and religion on mortality rates of early twentieth century railway workers. HistoryLink, Summer, 2023
• Lost Tacoma: Demolished and Unbuilt Local Buildings Post on the Tacoma Public Library's site about my time processing the Lost Tacoma born digital archive material, focusing on my selection process and how everyday architecture can convey deep cultural significance. Summer, 2022
• Above the Clouds, The Tacoma Mountaineers Records Post on the Tacoma Public Library's site about my time processing the Tacoma Mountaineers archive material, focusing on a female member’s scrapbook which documented expeditions during 1906. Winter, 2022
• Capturing the Oral History of a Historic African American Community in the Pacific Northwest Reflection on a displaced African American community south of Seattle, oral history, and equity in historic preservation, published by the Society of American Archivist's Archival Outlook. Winter, 2021

Press

• Richards Revisited Interview on the Tacoma Public Library's site about my time processing the Richards Studio Collection, focusing on working with unusual film formats, twentieth century fraternities and diversity in the historical recordSpring, 2022
• Digitization and archival projects help 'fill in gaps' in Tacoma's History Article written by Mayowa Aina of Tacoma’s NPR station detailing my work on the Richards Collection. The web treatment of the article features stereo transparency images I processed, findings and ethical considerations of archival descriptions. Spring, 2022
• There’s an Archivist for That! An Interview with Andrew Weymouth of the Washington State Fair Archives Article detailing my work with the Washington State Fair processing their visual resources and navigating the archives work during the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Archives Aware (SAA), Winter, 2021