My name is Nadia Ghasedi and I am the Film & Media Archivist at Washington University in St. Louis. As Film & Media Archivist I oversee the activities of the Film & Media Archive, a unit of the Special Collections Department. This includes managing staff, preservation, access, collection development, and outreach. I have been in this position for 2 ½ years. I previously served as the Archive's Cataloging and Preservation Archivist, a position I held for over 3 years. I hold a BA in Communication Arts, Radio-TV-Film and a minor in Classical Humanities from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, a graduate certificate in Film Preservation from the L. Jeffery Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House, and will be completing my MA in Information Science & Learning Technologies with an Emphasis in Library Science from University of Missouri—Columbia this spring.
I never actually thought I would be a librarian...[read more]