Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Background
Degrees:
- MHIS, University of Idaho
- Moscow, Idaho
- 2024-Present
- Moscow, Idaho
- MLIS, University of Washington
- Seattle, Washington
- 2022
- Seattle, Washington
- BA, Evergreen State College
- Olympia, Washington
- 2019
- Olympia, Washington
Experience:
Teaching, Extension and Research Appointments
Digital Pedagogy Specialist Web and Instructional Materials Development, University of Oregon DREAM Lab, 2021-2022
Research Assistant, Web Development University of Washington Near Eastern Languages Department, 2022
Research Assistant, Network Visualization, University of Washington Near Eastern Languages Department, Summer 2021
Non-Academic Employment:
Digital Media Editor, HistoryLink, Sourcing historic material, surveying current collections and developing batch import and alt text functions. Seattle, WA, 2022-2023
Archivist, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room, Processing, descriptive and born digital work on various collections. Tacoma, WA, 2021-2023
Teaching Accomplishments
Areas of Specialization
Digital Scholarship, Web Development, Digital Preservation, Project Management, Exhibit Design, Data and Network Visualization, Python Software Development
Students Advised
Graduate Students
- Megan Caves,
- Custom Curriculum Template, 2025.
- Nick Koenig,
- CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship, 2023.
Undergraduate Students
- Jacob Kuenning
- Custom digital exhibit template, 2025.
- Dakota Steffen,
- CDIL Fellowship, 2024.
- Irene Koreski,
- Berry Fellowship, 2024.
Materials Developed
Open Educational Resources
(teaching resources shared for access and re-use; created as part of librarian’s Teaching area of responsibility)
Introduction to Zotero [Introductory guide to using the citation manager Zotero to organize scholarly materials, create bibliographies, summarize annotations, collaborate on group projects and preserve your research for future reference. Created for the Spring 2025 U of I Information Landscape series.] 2025,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/zotero_intro/University of Idaho VERSO Guide [Introductory presentation for students, staff, and faculty engaging with the University of Idaho Library’s VERSO institutional repository platform. The guide walks through how VERSO functions, how to create a profile if data harvesting hasn’t done so already, how to add scholarly work, edit your author profile, and hide any work you don’t want to be public.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/verso_introUsing Python Tools and Obsidian to Connect and Visualize Research [Presentation on using custom Python tools to correct optical character recognition layers, extract annotations from digitized text, and contextualize these notes using Obsidian’s detailed tagging methods to enrich scholarly research.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/python_obsidianUsing OpenRefine to Standardize Metadata Language [Practical guide to using OpenRefine for metadata language standardization, intended for faculty, staff, patrons, and students at the University of Idaho.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/or_standardizeCollege of Agricultural & Life Sciences Liaison Introduction [Reference site for introducing undergraduate students of the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences to myself, how my work corresponds with their studies, and the various library resources available to help them produce scholarly work.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/cals_introDigital Geolocation Tools for Archival Research [Workshop teaching geolocation tools and methodologies to identify archival photographs lacking metadata to enrich resources. Created for the U of I Information Landscape series.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/geolocationDistant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections [Workshop on using Python and App Script to create subject tags across complete oral history collections and empower student workers to run, modify and expand these tags during the copy editing process. Created for the Datahub Tech Talk series.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/distant_listeningUsing Digital Scholarship to Conduct and Present Historical Research [Workshop for Ellen Kittell’s History 290 Course.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/ds_hrHow to Find Copyright Free Photos, Audio or Video of Almost Anything [Created for the Information Landscape series.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/source_cr_free
Website and Database Development
(specific digital collection and web projects completed as part of librarian’s “Teaching” area of responsibility)
Context Podcast Digital Collection [digital collection project.] 2025,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/context/WWAMI Scrapbook [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/wwami/Plant, Soil, and Entomological Sciences Records [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/pses/Cougar Dave Collection [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/cougar-dave/Latah County Historic Places [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/latahsites/Other Faces, Other Lives: Asian Americans in Idaho [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/otherfaces/Hispanic Oral History Project Interviews [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/hohp/Rural Women’s History Project [digital collection project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/rwhp/Alice Coltrane, Jazz Spiritualism [Oral history centered profile of musician Alice Coltrane, implementing U of I Oral History as Metadata visualization for Berry Fellows Irene Koreski.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/coltraneTaylor Wilderness Research Station Archive [Extended project to clean metadata, create contextual digital scholarship elements and merge a scientific repository with an oral history project.] 2024,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/taylor-archiveChestnut Collective [Exhibit design and network visualization for CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship.] 2023,
https://github.com/thecdil/chestnutcollectiveVandal Video Collection [Corrected metadata and redesigned site that wasn’t available to the public.] 2023,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/vandalvideo/about.htmlThe Genesee News [Corrected metadata and redesigned site that wasn’t available to the public.] 2023,
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/genesee-newsUniversity of Idaho Data Migration [Participated as a group of four in the creation, quality control or deployment of around 125 collections from ContentDM based storage to a local platform], 2023-2024
Lost Tacoma [Architectural database created on behalf of the Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room.] 2022,
https://aweymo.github.io/losttacomaMapping Language [Database and pedagogical tool created for University of Washington capstone.] 2022,
https://aweymo.github.io/mappinglanguageMiddle East and North Africa Illustrated [Database created for the University of Washington’s Near Eastern Languages department.] 2022,
https://gnmedatabase.github.io/siteRichards Studio VRAF Grant [Forestry.io Git site created to showcase grant work with the Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room.] 2022,
https://aweymo.github.io/VRAF_RC.2Emma B. Andrews Diary Project Network Visualization Tools [University of Washington directed fieldwork site.] 2021,
https://aweymo1.wixsite.com/eba-visualizationMary Hillaire and the Lummi Nation: Self-Determination [Omeka site curating oral history research assembled during undergraduate fieldwork for the Evergreen State College.] 2019,
https://collections.evergreen.edu/s/selfdetermination
Non-Credit Classes, Workshops, Seminars, Invited Lectures, etc.
Workshops
Using Embodiment and Audio Narrative to Present Historical Research [Presentation created for Alyssa Kreikemeier’s HIST424 Environmental History course on using embodiment in field recording, interviewing and utilizing oral history recordings to restructure scholarly work to the audio narrative medium and enrich your research.] 2024,
Premiere Workshop [Informal presentation with members of Special Collections on using Adobe Premiere for audio transcription, how it works, privacy considerations, and how to format output for the Oral History as Data template.] 2024,
Analytics Workshop [Introductory workshop for U of I library faculty about how GA4 is set up across the library site, getting access to analytics, reading and refining the series of Looker Studio templates I created for the many library teams, and the limitations and misconceptions of what this data can tell us. Co-created with Digital Infrastructure Librarian Evan Williamson.] 2024,
videoAVS 463 Library Resources Presentation [Updating workshop site originally created by Hanwen Dong for Amy Skibiel’s Animal and Veterinary Science 463 Growth and Lactation class.] 2024,
siteDigital Geolocation Tools for Archival Research [Workshop teaching geolocation tools and methodologies to identify archival photographs lacking metadata to enrich resources. Created for the U of I Information Landscape series.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/geolocationDistant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections [Workshop on using Python and App Script to create subject tags across complete oral history collections and empower student workers to run, modify and expand these tags during the copy editing process. Created for the Datahub Tech Talk series.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/distant_listeningCollection Builder Workshop [Two hour workshop concluding my Research Assistant position with Selim Kuru at the University of Washington recapping how to maintain and expand the CB database for future use.] 2022,
https://gnmedatabase.github.io/site/Omeka Workshop [Designed curriculum and taught a three part workshop with Elliot Stevens and the University of Washington’s Digital Humanities department.] 2021.
Bibliographic Mobile Platforms Workshop [Invited to host a workshop on utilizing bibliographic software Zotero, Papership, and Zoo for Zotero to make coursework more accessible for adult learners.] 2019.
Invited Lectures
Preserving and Enriching Podcast Projects: A Workflow for Small Teams [Poster presentation for the 2025 Northwest Archivist Conference outlining process developed over the course of creating the Context Podcast Digital Collection.] 2024,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um2QX9Y2zj8Aerial Time Lapse Tools Survey [Survey of five platforms that researchers can use to generate aerial time-lapse visualizations, highlighting their unique strengths, weaknesses, and the technical skills required for each. Created for the 25th annual University of Idaho GIS Day Short Talk series.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/aerial_timelapseText Mining Strategies for Transcribing and Tagging Oral History Collections [Part of the Seven Minute Scholarship Presentations for the Loyola Marymount University Digital Commons Conference.] 2024,
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/irdlconference/2024/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.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/humanizingCollaborating 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.] 2024,
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/communityMapping Language [Community Archives Panel, City of Tacoma Historic Preservation Month.] 2022.
Scholarship Accomplishments
(Including scholarship of teaching and learning, artistic creativity, discovery, and application/integration)
Publications, Exhibitions, Performances, Recitals
Peer Reviewed/Evaluated
Andrew Weymouth, “Distant Listening: Using Python and Apps Scripts to Text Mine and Tag Oral History Collections” [Under review with Code4Lib] Submitted Summer 2024
https://aweymo-ui.github.io/distant_listeningAndrew Weymouth, “Civilizing, Separating and Organizing: The Geographic Influence on Nineteenth Century Western Libraries”, [Opening chapter to] Land in Libraries, Litwin Publishing, 2023
https://litwinbooks.com/books/land-in-librariesMary McDonald, Alyssa Puddicombe, Andrew Weymouth, Aubrey Williams, “Methods for Collecting Oral Histories Amidst a Crisis”, The Serials Librarian 2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2021.1985685
Software Development (generalized code developed and published for re-use)
Andrew Weymouth, “Read_Image Optical Character Recognition Tool” [Iteration of an OCR tool developed by Luke Sheneman, Director of the IBEST Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) at the University of Idaho. This extension was developed to help extract text from image files to enrich alt text metadata and make digital collections more accessible. Private repository, but link points to an introductory presentation for the Digital Collections Team], 2024
https://indd.adobe.com/view/db718d34-da0b-40fe-b21a-0d0d86d0b99eAndrew Weymouth, “Trello_Export Tool” [Tool for exporting archived Trello cards, categorized by label to help track activity for liaison reports and annual reviews], 2024
https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/book_splitterAndrew Weymouth, “Book_Splitter Tool” [Python tool for quickly splitting two-page scans to increase OCR accuracy], 2024
https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/trello_exportAndrew Weymouth, “Annotation_Extraction Tool” [Tool created to extract text from annotated PDFs and export it categorically and chronologically to markdown files for visualization and connection-building within Obsidian.], 2024
https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/annotation_extractionAndrew Weymouth, “Transcript_Mining Tool” [Developed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the University of Idaho Digital Scholarship and Open Strategies department’s Oral History as Data tagging process. Users can iterate by dropping new transcription sets into the CSV folder and running the Python script.], 2024
https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/transcript_mining_baseAndrew Weymouth, “Web Scraper” [Python tool to extract contact information from the web to expedite liaison work], 2024
https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/web_scraperAndrew Weymouth, “Image Extraction Tool” [Python tool for extracting multiple images within single images and assigning archival naming conventions for overhead scans of scrapbook material], 2024
https://github.com/Scholarly-Projects/image_extraction
Grants and Contracts Awarded:
- PI: Devin Becker, Traci Craig, Evan Williamson, Heather Taff, Sarah Campbell, Chelsea Franklin, Mindy Flick, Erica Frazier, Kate Powers-Kusio, “Digital Dramaturgy” National Endowment for the Humanities - Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, Summer 2024, pending approval [named co-investigator]
Other
Andrew Weymouth, “North Idaho Cultural Heritage Institutions Survey,” 2024
Andrew Weymouth, “Through a Filipino Lens: Washington State Cannery Workers in Alaska,” Maritime Washington (October 2023)
https://maritimewa.org/story/through-a-filipino-lens-washington-state-cannery-workers-in-alaska/Andrew Weymouth, “Tacoma’s Northern Pacific Hospital and the History of Railway Insurance,” HistoryLink (June 2023)
https://historylink.org/File/22732Andrew Weymouth, “Capturing the Oral History of a Historic African American Community in the Pacific Northwest,” Archival Outlook (January 2021)
https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=690860&p=10
Awards and Internships
Storytelling Fellows, University of Washington (2022), resulting work
Vollstedt Internship, University of Oregon (2021)
iStamp Mentorship, University of Washington (2020-2021)
Service
Major Committee Assignments
University
- Safety and Loss Prevention Committee, 2024
Search Committees
- Archives Coordinator, 2024
- Instruction and User Services Librarian, 2024
- Digital Projects Manager, 2024
- Research Impact Librarian Search Committee, 2023
Library Organizations
- Digital Collections Team Lead, 2024
- Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2024
- Bylaw Review Board, 2024
- College of Agricultural & Life Sciences Liaison, 2024
Professional and Scholarly Organizations
- Northwest Archivists, Inc., 2021-Present
- Society of American Archivists, Committee on Public Awareness Board Member, 2021-2023
Outreach Service
Articles and Posts
Andrew Weymouth, “2024 U of I Digital Poster Template”[Template designed to help promote ten new and older digital collections and utilized a key space in the library for passive veiwing. Archival images are separated into fore, middle and background and angled slightly using Adobe After Effects to create a three dimensional diorama effect.] (2024)
https://vimeo.com/1012555193Andrew Weymouth, “North Idaho Cultural Heritage Institutions Survey,” Idaho Harvester (2024)
https://harvester.lib.uidaho.edu/posts/2024/06/23/survey.htmlAndrew Weymouth, “UI’s Berry Fellow once again breaks the mold in 2024,” Moscow Pullman Daily News (June 2024)
https://dnews.com/local/ui-s-berry-fellow-once-again-breaks-the-mold-in-2024/article_397754fb-642d-535d-85e2-be98f01be913.htmlAndrew Weymouth, “Above the Clouds, The Tacoma Mountaineers Records,” Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room Blog (December 2022)
https://tacomalibrary.org/blogs/post/above-the-clouds-the-tacoma-mountaineers-records/Andrew Weymouth, “Lost Tacoma: Demolished and Unbuilt Local Buildings,” Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room Blog (July 2022)
https://tacomalibrary.org/blogs/post/lost-tacoma/Andrew Weymouth, “Richards Revisited,” Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room Blog (May 2022)
https://tacomalibrary.org/blogs/post/richards-revisited-2/
Interview articles and press
Mayowa Aina, “Digitization and archival projects help ‘fill in gaps’ in Tacoma’s history,” KNKX (March 2022)
https://knkx.org/arts-culture/2022-03-04/digitization-and-archival-projects-help-fill-in-gaps-in-tacomas-historyAndrew Weymouth, “There’s An Archivist for That!,” Society of American Archivists (December 2021)
https://archivesaware.archivists.org/2021/12/15/theres-an-archivist-for-that-an-interview-with-andrew-weymouth-of-the-washington-state-fair-archives/
Community Service
- Crafts Program Volunteer, St. John Public Library, Portland, Oregon, 2019
Professional Development
Scholarship
- “Loyola Marymount University Digital Commons,” 2024
- “DLF Conference,” [virtual] 2024
- “Northwest Archivist Conference,” 2024
- “Colonial Legacies and the History and Present of the Mexican Migrants in Idaho with Dr. Eulalia Gallegos Buitron,” 2024
- “Sustainable Outreach,” Northwest Archivist Conference, 2024
- “AI Workshop Series,” [Four part U of I workshop] 2024
- “Proposal Development Academy,” [10 part U of I course] 2024
- “DLF Conference,” 2023
Administration/Management
Library Analytics Infrastructure [Developed and standardized GA4 analytics dashboards in Looker Studio to support internal reporting and optimize library management workflows. Currently in its fourth iteration and continues to be improved], 2023-present
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jNO9C98iFFMAaPuyJixzR0vKf9ShnSe8W5vv4lPJktY/edit?usp=sharingTranscription Processes [Developed processes and documentation outlining the approach, technical procedure, and copy editing of audio material in the CDIL], 2024
https://uidaholib.github.io/digital-collections-docs/content/transcription/00-intro.htmlInternal Documentation Update [Collaborated with Evan Williamson and Devin Becker to update and expand external documentation of digitization and transcription processes], 2024
https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/about/
https://uidaholib.github.io/digital-collections-docs/