Library and Archives

Solutions Architect and Subject Matter Expert

Iron Mountain Library and Archives Services

Amy works with the libraries and archives to understand their needs and help them develop strategies for managing their collections. She shows them how Iron Mountain can provide innovative moving, storage and digitization solutions. This can include storage of their content in various situations including temporary storage during renovations, organization and indexing during move preparations, and digitization for improved access.

Ongoing development is important to Amy and she is a member of the Society of American Archivist (SAA), the New England Archivists (NEA), and the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). In 2021 she completed the Arrangement and Description Certification course with the SAA. She is a registered Massachusetts Professional Librarian certified by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Prior to coming to Iron Mountain, Amy has served in a number of different roles and brings a wide range of experience to the table. She was the Access Archivist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for 3 years, and was as an archivist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for 9 years.She served as an Archives Specialist with NATO Allied Joint Force Command in the Netherlands on a 2 year contract to archive the digital collection of mission records repatriated from Afghanistan. At EBSCO Information Services she spent 5 years working with metadata from library catalogs and institutional repositories in the development of their Discovery Service product.

Some of the most exciting projects that Amy has enjoyed working on are ones where she gets to help transform processes and implement new technology. At RPI she was instrumental in moving all of their paper accession records to a digital database, dramatically increasing the access to collections. At WPI she migrated collection guides to ArchivesSpace, an open-source, web-based archives information management system.

Amy holds an MLS, with a concentration in Archival Administration from the University at Albany, SUNY. She did her undergraduate work at Potsdam College, SUNY where she received a BA in History and Secondary Education.

When not working, Amy loves to travel and has visited many countries in Europe and elsewhere, with an extensive tour through Scandinavia her most recent journey. Her love of travel and former work with Afghanistan while at NATO have given her a sympathetic view into the plight of the refugee. She is a member of the Welcoming Alliance for Refugee Ministry which befriends and assists Afghan refugees who have relocated to the Worcester, MA area.

Solutions Architect and Subject Matter Expert

Iron Mountain Library and Archival Services

Anna provides expert consulting and tailored solutions to Library, Archives, and Special Collections customers through planning and execution of relocation projects, collection storage strategies, and digitization programs. In this role she presents the unique capabilities of Iron Mountain to our library and archives customers while ensuring the specialized needs of these customers are accurately represented to the extensive internal Iron Mountain network.

Before joining Iron Mountain, Anna was with the University of Texas at Austin Libraries for over 13 years. In her time at UT Austin, she held numerous positions of increasing responsibility, starting as a copy cataloger and culminating as Head of Digitization Services. In her final role, Anna implemented and managed digital project lifecycle activities of core and distinctive collections for the purposes of preservation and long term stewardship and in support of digital access and digital scholarship. Particularly gratifying contributions included working with internal and external partners to provide meaningful preservation of and access to collection materials as part of the Primeros Libros Project and the Human Rights Documentation Initiative.

One of the aspects of her current role with Iron Mountain that Anna finds particularly rewarding is the unique perspective she gains through interacting with diverse collections and institutions. Anna is witness to remarkable innovations as collection curators continue to ensure best practice requirements are met despite the challenges associated with budget cuts, shrinking staff, reduced physical spaces, and changing technologies. She considers it a privilege to share what she’s learned, not only in an effort to reassure customers they aren’t alone in facing these challenges, but also to offer efficient and practical solutions that will ensure collections are cared for now and into the future.

Anna earned an MSIS in Library and Information Science with a specialty in Archives Management from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 and received her Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certification from the Society of American Archivists in 2011. She also completed her undergraduate work at UT Austin, where she was a Mellon Fellow in Population Research and received a BA in History and American Studies, focusing on American Existentialism.

When not working with Libraries and Archives, Anna enjoys solo-camping, traveling, and live music. In a previous life, she played drums for several lo-fi post-punk bands in the Austin area while working as a manager for a famously pro-musician local sandwich chain. She considers many of her former staff part of her family, even the ones who didn’t become rock stars. She currently lives in Austin with her synthesizer-obsessed husband, 2 dogs, and 2 cats, none of whom can drum or make sandwiches very well.

Solutions Architect and Subject Matter Expert

Iron Mountain Library and Archives Services

As a Solutions Architect at Iron Mountain, Brandon listens to the needs of librarians and archivists, and translates them into something actionable by Iron Mountain’s services. He leverages his background as a librarian and archivist and brings his extensive experience to help craft optimal solutions for his customers. Because he’s been through so many experiences himself, he knows exactly what to do to help our customers. Having a flood in your facility? Brandon has been through a flood in a former job. Need to set up a digitization project? Brandon has managed digitization projects. This is the experience that lets him bring best practices to his customers’ projects.

Prior to joining Iron Mountain in 2021, Brandon spent 17 years at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University where he managed the preservation and intellectual control of hundreds of thousands of library assets from unique archival records to rare books and audiovisual media. Before Stanford, Brandon worked at the Library of Congress where he continues to advise its Radio Preservation Task Force, serving in both its Preservation Division and its Sound Submissions project.

In addition to these roles, Brandon has a long history of holding leadership positions for professional organizations in the United States and Europe. He a member of the International Association for Sound and Audiovisual Archives, where he served as both vice-chair and chair of the Broadcast Archives Section and co-authored the publication, Research Collections withCold War Radio Materials, and a member of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections where he chaired of its Associated Audio Archivists Committee and served as an advisor for its Council on Library and Information Resources co-publication, The ARSC Guide to AudioPreservation. Brandon chaired a session on "Discovering and Describing New Collections" at the 2023 conference of the Library of Congress's Radio Preservation Task Force.

Some of the aspects that Brandon enjoys the most about his work are the diverse set of customers he gets to work with including public and private universities, corporate archives, public libraries, government collections, and more. His recent work with the National Geographic Society was particularly interesting because of the iconic photos and other media that they have in their collection stored in a variety of fragile formats including oversized rare books, maps, and glass- encased negatives.

Brandon holds a Masters in Library and Information Science with a specialization in Preservation Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. While at UT he was involved in several professional organizations including serving as Treasurer of the Society of American Archivists, UT Student Chapter. His undergraduate work was completed at the University of Kansas where he majored in American Studies.

His passion at work carries over into his personal life where Brandon has a collection of over 22,000 vinyl records at home. Music is a family interest, and his wife serves as the Head of the Music Library at the University of Michigan.

Solutions Architect and Subject Matter Expert

Iron Mountain Library and Archival Services

At Iron Mountain, Scott provides expert consulting to archives and libraries in the planning and execution of relocation projects, collections storage strategies, and digitization efforts. He helps customers execute their plans by providing the resources that are appropriate and helps them develop their plans with advice on best practices.

Before coming to Iron Mountain, Scott spent 7 years as University Archivist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he was responsible for instituting policies and procedures that brought conformity to the University Archives and how material was collected. Prior to his efforts, very few of the more than 300 different units had procedures in place covering the materials deemed as University records. He worked these archival materials into new functional records schedules that applied to all units and ensured that archiving these documents was backed by Illinois State Law.

Before his time in the academic world, he was the Corporate Archivist and Records Manager at The Pampered Chef for 5 years. There he instituted a comprehensive and updated archival system and oversaw the conversion from the company’s old system.

Scott finds the most rewarding part of his job is helping others to meet their goals, especially when they need to complete a project with limited resources or time constraints. He has a particular soft spot for academic institutions, where he spent much of his professional life, where “projects often move slowly… until they don’t!” He feels it is helpful to have someone who can relate to the customers’ experiences and bring a level of confidence in the solution Iron Mountain is providing.

Scott is a Certified Archivist with the Academy of Certified Archivists and holds a Masters in Library and Information Science with a specialization in Archives Management from Dominican University. While at Dominican, he was president and founder of the Society of American Archivists, Dominican University Chapter as well as a member of a number of other local, regional, and national archival and library organizations. Before Dominican, he received his Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Scott loves movies, jazz, and cats and is a big fan of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and the philosophy Wright used to drive the design details of his structures.