Archivist Meghan Attalla is a member of the HAI team working at the National Library of Medicine on the Profiles in Science website. As a digital archivist on the project, she creates item-level metadata records and oversees digitization and quality control. Prior to becoming a digital archivist, Ms. Attalla served as a processing archivist for the project, arranging and describing the papers of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and Nobel Laureate Marshall W. Nirenberg. Before joining HAI, she worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma's Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives and as an intern at the school's Western History Collections Photographic Archives. At the University of Oklahoma, Ms. Attalla earned a bachelor's degree in history and a master's degree in library and information studies.

Archivist/records manager Rachel Ban, C.A., deputy director of Information Resources Management, works on a variety of archives and records management projects for History Associates. Her current work includes writing records retention schedules, conducting record surveys, completing program assessments, and overseeing processing projects. Recent processing projects include an NHPRC grant-funded
project and processing eleven collections for three National Park Service sites. Ms. Ban also manages HAI's archival storage facility. She earned her bachelor's degree in history from Wheaton College in Illinois and holds both a master's in history and a master's in library science with an archival concentration from the University
of Maryland at College Park.

Archivist Elizabeth Borja, C.A., is working on a project at the Department of Homeland Security, expanding, administering, and maintaining archival reference collections. Prior to joining HAI, she worked for four years as a processing assistant and librarian/ archivist for the Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland. Ms. Borja also served as a graduate assistant and librarian for Nonprint Media Services at the University of Maryland for two years. She completed internships at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and Historical Society of Washington, D.C., earning her MA in history and MLS, with a concentration in archives management, at the University of Maryland. Ms. Borja also has a BA in history and a BS in biology from the University of Maryland.

Archivist/records manager Abigail L. Dixon, C.A., works on a variety of projects for HAI's Western Area Office. Her current work includes processing archival collections and writing archives policies and procedures manuals. Ms. Dixon also has experience conducting collection surveys, presenting records management training, and providing reference services. Prior to joining the Western Area Office, Ms. Dixon spent two years in HAI's Rockville, Maryland, office where she completed projects for the Library of Congress, the National Institutes of Health, and several National Park Service sites. Ms. Dixon earned her bachelor's degree in history and her master's degree in library and information science, with a concentration in archives management, from Louisiana State University. As a graduate student, she worked in the manuscripts processing division at Hill Memorial Library.

Archivist/historian LeeAnn Erwine works on a variety of archives and historical projects for HAI's Western Area Office. Her current work includes processing art-related records at Scripps College. Ms. Erwine has experience processing archival records for a number of institutions. She also has experience with website development and the creation of on-line searchable databases in XML/XSLT. Ms. Erwine has a reading knowledge of French and is fluent in Spanish. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from California State University, Fullerton, and a master's degree in library and information science from San Jose State University, California.

Archivist James D. Griesel, C.A., is currently working on a project for the Library of Congress's Geography and Maps Division. His responsibilities include the appraisal, arrangement, and description of uncataloged U.S. maps. Mr. Griesel earned his bachelor's degree in historic preservation from Southeast Missouri State University and his master's degree in Museum Studies with an archives management specialization from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He completed internships at the Jimmy Carter and Andersonville National Historic Sites and at the Nebraska State Historical Society. While completing his master's degree, he was responsible for moving the U.S. Geological Survey Nebraska Water Science Center scientific records, archives, and publications library to its new facility in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Archivist Erica Haakensen, C.A., is currently working on the Digital Manuscripts Program at the National Library of Medicine. Her responsibilities include the arrangement, description, and preservation of records for inclusion in the Profiles in Science project. She earned her bachelor's degree in English literature from Providence College and her master's degree in library science with an archives management concentration from Simmons College. While working on her MLS, she completed internships at the Harvard Film Archives, John F. Kennedy Library, Rhode Island Historical Society, and Rhode Island School of Design Archives. Ms. Haakensen has experience in digitizing photographs and reformatting audiovisual materials.

Archivist Anu Kasarabada recently joined the HAI team. She earned her B.A. in history and economics from Indiana University, Bloomington. Ms. Kasarabada recently completed her master's degree in library science with a concentration in archives, records, and information management at the University of Maryland, College Park. While a graduate student, she worked as a student assistant in Maryland's University Archives and interned with the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation as well as the Archives of the Freer and Sackler Gallery of Art. Ms. Kasarabada has experience developing item-level databases and digitizing a variety of archival materials.

Archivist Daniel J. Lavoie II works at the National Library of Medicine on a variety of projects. Currently his responsibilities include the re-housing, arrangement, and description of collections in the History of Medicine Division. Mr. Lavoie earned his bachelor's degree in history from Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. He also holds a master's in history from the archival, museum, and editing studies program at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania. While pursuing his master's, Mr. Lavoie completed an internship at the archives of the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in Pennsylvania.

Archivist Jim McIntyre, C.A., is currently working on a variety of projects for HAI. Mr. McIntyre earned a BA in English literature with a minor in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in library and information science, specializing in archives, from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. As part of that program, he completed a practicum at the archives of the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also worked as a processing archivist in the Special Collections department of the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and in the archives of Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, a house museum in Akron, Ohio.

Archivist Gregory Pike, C.A., has extensive experience with digitization projects. For over five years he has provided archival expertise for the National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science project to digitize the papers of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists and make selected documents available for research on the Internet. Mr. Pike is knowledgeable about many of the basics of such an operation (data entry, scanning, quality control) and is particularly skilled in the creation of metadata for individual documents for inclusion in a searchable database. He is also well versed in copyright law and permissions-seeking procedures. Mr. Pike holds a bachelor's degree in history from Juniata College in Huntington, Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in library science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He also earned a law degree from Widener University in Wilmington, Delaware.

Archivist Julie Schweitzer, C.A., works on a variety of archives and records management projects for History Associates. Her work includes surveying and assessing archival collections, processing archival collections, updating records schedules, and providing records management services for clients including the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, National Institutes of Health, and National Park Service. Prior to joining HAI, Ms. Schweitzer worked as a contracting archivist at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ms. Schweitzer earned her bachelor's degree in history from Georgetown University and her MA in history and MLS with a concentration in archives from the University of Maryland. She also holds an MA in French cultural studies from Columbia University. As a graduate student, she worked for the National Archives and Records Administration.

Archivist Lloyd Williams is currently working on a variety of projects for HAI. Mr. Williams earned his BA and MA in American history from Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. As part of that program, he wrote his thesis on the history of Fairfield Hills Hospital, a former state hospital in Connecticut. Mr. Williams earned his master's degree in library science with a concentration in archives management from Simmons College. He performed internships at Western Connecticut State University, Boston College, Harvard Medical School, and Northeastern University where he gained experience processing, handling, and identifying photographs. He served as the NEA (New England Archivists) Liaison for the Simmons College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists as well as president of the Western Connecticut State University History Society.