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An unexpected turn of events brought me closer to understanding the importance of preservation. My journey into the Rockefeller Archive Center was slightly unorthodox. With no prior experience in or knowledge of archiving, I was extremely grateful for the opportunity to learn about the field. I leave feeling like a more well-rounded, knowledgeable student.

I’m just back from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), an annual gathering put on by the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), held this year in Baltimore. This was my first time at this the conference, so didn’t know quite what to expect. I found it to be a challenging-but-generative space, partially because of the current moment when nonprofits feel very much under attack (a constant theme throughout the conference) and in part because it felt like stepping into a foreign technology landscape. It was, as a result, easier to see the points of dissonance, but I also found that attention to translation and focusing on potential points of relevance yielded some useful insights.

Hillel, Ima, and Patrick all attended this years annual Code4Lib conference in Princeton, NJ. As always, the conference was well-programmed with many thoughtful presenters and presentations. Each of the authors came away with different insights about their work, current trends in the field, and new and thoughtful ways to to engage with their community of practice. Their reflections below offer a brief insight into the experience.

Hello! My name is Elizabeth Urbanczyk, and I am thrilled to join the Research and Engagement team here at the Rockefeller Archive Center as Writer. In this position, I’ll be diving into the RAC’s collections to produce content for our online publishing platform RE:source, among other responsibilities. I’m excited to collaborate across departments to develop relevant and valuable content for our public audiences.

I’m excited to share that we’ve finished implementing our open-source RAC Style Library, integrating its styles across our websites and refactoring our applications to align with the web components documented in our Storybook Style Guide. This project has already had a major impact on our ability to quickly, collaboratively, and sustainably develop and maintain user interfaces (UIs) that are accessible and facilitate better user experience (UX) by unifying our visual and experiential design across RAC websites.

In this final post about the project, I’d like to reflect on what we’ve learned and made possible with this work.