Alexis Antracoli’s Special Collections work connects people with information and themselves

Many people get into special collections for the materials and collections … I care about the materials, but I care about them in relation to people. That was why UMSI was a good fit for me, since it is all about connecting people with information. I thought that I could touch people’s lives by working with the materials and information in archives. A lot of my work is digital technologies and web-based discovery systems, and while that is not exactly what I imagined, I love it. It’s what centers me and drives me in the work I do. My work is a mechanism for connecting people to themselves. The stuff is meaningless outside of that.

Alexis Antracoli is a 2011 graduate of UMSI’s Master of Science in Information program and assistant university librarian for Special Collections Technical Services at Princeton University, leading archival processing and collections services within Special Collections.

Read about the hands-on, practical internship experiences Alexis pursued at UMSI that introduced her to the archival profession’s intriguing challenges, as well as the “invaluable” career development resources she leveraged to get her foot in the door at Princeton’s Mudd Library in her full Alumni Snapshot.