25 Mars - Rachel Black

Rachel Black graduated from McGill’s School of Information Studies in 2018 where she discovered a passion for archival work. She is currently Project Coordinator of the Data Rescue, Archives and Weather (DRAW) Project, an interdisciplinary citizen science transcription project which aims to make available historic weather data from the McGill Observatory (1863-1963), and Project Archivist at the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, where she works with the fonds of celebrated neurosurgeon Wilder Graves Penfield. Rachel has previously worked with the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT), the McGill Rare Books and Special Collections Department, the McGill University Archives, and as Team Lead cataloguing the historical book collection of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Her professional interests include community and public outreach initiatives, personal digital and analog archiving, and the digitization and preservation of cultural objects.