Speakers
- Dorothy Berry
- Houghton Library, Harvard University, Digital Collections Program Manager
Dorothy Berry is the Digital Collections Program Manager at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Before coming to Houghton Library, Berry served as Metadata and Digitization Lead for Umbra Search African American History at University of Minnesota. She has both a Master of the Arts in Ethnomusicology, and a Master of Library Science from Indiana University, where her research focused on building historical ethnography using online databases. Her work has focused on the intersections of information science and African American history, with interests in 19th and early 20th century performances of Blackness in the archives, and in changing descriptive practices to make African American historical materials more authentically accessible.