ANNA TRAMMELL

Tacoma, Washington
trammell@plu.edu 253-535-7586

EXPERIENCE

Archivist & Special Collections Librarian/Assistant Professor

August 2018-present
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington

Archival Operations and Reference Specialist

September 2015-July 2018
Archives Research Center/Student Life and Culture Archives, University of Illinois

Gwendolyn Brooks Papers Processing Assistant

January 2015-September 2015
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois

Alpha Tau Omega Archives Assistant

January 2015-September 2015
Student Life and Culture Archives, University of Illinois

Student Life and Culture Archives Assistant

June 2014-December 2014
Student Life and Culture Archives, University of Illinois

Scholarly Commons Graduate Assistant

July 2014-December 2014
Scholarly Commons, University of Illinois

Cataloging Graduate Assistant

August 2013 – August 2014
Residence Hall Libraries, University of Illinois

Library Supervisor
July 2013– July 2014
Residence Hall Libraries, University of Illinois

Circulation Clerk
June 2012 – September 2013
The Urbana Free Library, Urbana, IL

EDUCATION

Archives Leadership Institute, 2019 Cohort

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)/Purdue University
Masters of Library and Information Science
Special Collections Certificate
University of Illinois School of Information Sciences

Bachelors of Arts
University of South Carolina

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Show and Teach: Developing Courses for Teaching with Archives

Designing Special Collections Instruction Sessions Using a Social Justice Framework
ARCHIVES 2019: Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, Austin, Texas: August 1-6, 2019

The Importance of Place: Designing Institutional History Archival Instruction Sessions

Northwest Archivists Conference, Bozeman, Montana: May 16-17, 2019

From the Stacks to the Classroom (Two Day Instructional Design Workshop) (Invited speaker)
Midwest Archives Conference Fall Symposium, Iowa City, Iowa: October 11-12, 2018

Beyond Description: Toward Critical Praxis in Public Services (Panel Chair)

Midwest Archives Conference, Chicago, Illinois: March 21-24, 2018

Capturing a Movement: Documenting Student Activities and Activism on Campus

ARCHIVES 2017: Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon: July 23-29, 2017

Using Voices of the Past to Shape the Future: Primary Sources as Outreach Tools for Social Justice
Midwest Archives Conference, Omaha, Nebraska: April 5-8, 2017

A Revolution Online and On the Quad: Capturing Student Activism at the University of Illinois
Personal Digital Archiving 2017, Stanford University: March 29-31, 2017

The Archives Blitz: Developing a Framework for Rapid Team Processing

Society of American Archivists IU Student Chapter Conference, Indiana University: March 28, 2015

PUBLICATIONS

Trammell, Anna. “It Takes a Village: A Week in Holden Village’s Remote Archives,” Archival
Outlook, July/August 2019.

Trammell, Anna. “Review of The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship,” The
American Archivist 82:1, Spring/Summer 2019.

Trammell, Anna. “The Scandinavian Immigrant Experience Collection,” Acid Free Magazine, Issue
No. 9: Movement, February 2019.

Swain, Ellen, Anna Trammell, and Noraleen Young. “It’s All Greek to Me: The National Archives
Conference for Fraternities and Sororities,” Archival Outlook, September/October 2016.

Gray, Krista, Anna Trammell, and Christopher J. Prom. “SAA Book Publishing Survey Results,”
Archival Outlook, September/October 2016.
PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS

Rodgers, Skye. Profiles of Academic Library Efforts to Develop and Publicize Special and Digital
Collections, Primary Research Group, Inc., February 2019.

Christian, Abigail. “A Newcomer’s Guide to Participating in SAA: An Interview with Anna

Trammell,” Archival Outlook, March/April 2018.

CONFERENCE POSTERS

Towards a ‘Fully Realized Institutional Repository’: Exploring Collaborations Between Archives and IRs
ARCHIVES 2015: Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio: August 16-22, 2015

The Town & Gown Speaker Series: Sharing Stories of Champaign County and Building Community
Partnerships
Midwest Archives Conference, Lexington, Kentucky: May 6-9, 2015

Permanent Presses: Scholarly Presses and Academic Research Libraries Partnering for Preservation
Library Publishing Coalition Forum; Kansas City, Missouri: March 5-6, 2014

GRANTS

“The Holden Village Archives Project: Enhancing Description and Improving Discoverability”
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America National Grants Program, February 2019

“Documenting the PLU Student Experience”

Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, December 2018

“Project STAND Symposia: Documenting Student Activism of Marginalized Communities

Across Academic Institutions”
Institute of Museum and Library Services National Forum Grant
Co-PI with Lae’l Hughes-Watkins (Kent State University) and Tamar Chute (The Ohio State
University), July 2018

SERVICE

PROFESSION

Archives in Context Podcast, Society of American Archivists

Co-Host (2019-present)

Committee on Public Awareness, Society of American Archivists

Committee Member (2017-present)

Women Archivists Section, Society of American Archivists

Steering Committee Member (2016-2019)
Mentoring Program, Society of American Archivists
Mentor (2018-2019), Protégé (2015-2016)

Publications Board, Society of American Archivists

Intern (2016-2017)

Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented)

Ethics Committee Chair (2017-2018), Advisory Board Member (2017-2018)

Students and New Archives Professionals Section, Society of American Archivists

Steering Committee Member/New Professionals Blog Editor (2015-2016)

UNIVERSITY

Subject Liaison for History and Nordic Studies, Pacific Lutheran University Mortvedt Library
2018-present

Library Exhibitions Committee, University of Illinois Library

Chair (2017-2018), Member (2016-2017)

User Education Committee, University of Illinois Library

Member (2016-2018)

Library Disaster Response Team, University of Illinois Library

Member (2016-2018)

Society of American Archivists Student Chapter, University of Illinois

President (2014-2015), Treasurer (2013-2014)

Curriculum Committee, University of Illinois School of Information Sciences

Masters Student Representative (2014-2015)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Benson-Starkovich Faculty Development Award

Awarded May 2019 by the Pacific Lutheran University Office of the Provost

Archives Leadership Institute 2019 Scholarship

Awarded February 2019 by the Archives Leadership Institute; among 20 archivists invited to participate and among 10
archivists awarded a scholarship to attend

Anne M. Boyd Award

Awarded May 2015 by the Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Science Honor Society
“to an MS student who, by vote of the faculty, is judged to be outstanding”

Yellowstone National Park Archives Blitz

Among 5 graduate students invited to participate in the first “Archives Blitz,” a CLIR-funded project at the Yellowstone
National Park Archives in September 2014; awarded funding to participate
McAlister Fund Conference Travel Award
Awarded April 2015 by the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences

Midwest Archives Conference Scholarship

Awarded April 2015 by the Midwest Archives Conference Planning Committee

C. Barber Mueller Award for Excellence in Exhibition Design

Awarded November 2014 by the University of Illinois Library Exhibitions Committee for the exhibit “Assemble:
Student Protests at the University of Illinois, 1947-present”