Digital Initiatives Librarian, Writer and Artist

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

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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

Exhibits

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

Other Writing

  • North Idaho Cultural Heritage Institutions Survey Article detailing a survey I created and conducted with the participation of twelve institutions, rethinking traditional practices of archival accessions and digital initiatives and exploring the similar challenges and successes of these smaller cultural heritage centers. University of Idaho Special Collections Idaho Harvester, Spring 2024
  • UI’s Berry Fellow Once Again Breaks the Mold in 2024 Article detailing my experience working with the 2024 Berry Fellowship recipient Irene Koreski to create a digital exhibit around a rare, unpublished oral history interview with jazz pioneer and eastern spiritualist Alice Coltrane. Pullman Moscow Daily New, Spring 2024
  • 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

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