David Moles

Pronouns

they/them

Student status

Online, part time

Academic interests

Archives and preservation, academic librarianship, information ethics, indigenous and marginalized knowledge, power and agency in GLAM and the academy

Current courses (Fall 2024)

17:610:540: Reference Sources and Services
17:610:571: Transformative Library Leadership

Previous courses

Selected Projects

510

Beyond the walls of the citadel: Effective library outreach to graduate students  (term paper)

524

TTRPG•ML: Sketch for a tabletop role-playing game markup language  (XML schema)

533

Reference Services Review: Archives and Records at Oxford University  (term paper)

556

Floppy Disks: Care, Handling, and Preservation  (leaflet)

580

Memory and Forgetting at Angel Island Immigration Station  (term paper)

583

“Veracruz is dying”: the US occupation of Veracruz in history and memory  (online exhibit prototype)
Product, Process, People, Praxis: Indigenous and Community Archives against MPLP  (term paper)
Benjamin Rosenbaum’s “The Unraveling”  (digital collection finding aid)

Selected Publications

Digital Preservation in the Small: Lessons for Preservation from Minimal Computing (presentation). Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Valencia, Spain, March 2024.

Student organizations

SCARLA (webmaster and acting president)

Advisor

Marija Dalbello

Work status

Full time

Contact

Mastodon:	glammr.us/@chronodm
email:	david.moles@rutgers.edu

About me

I'm attending from Albany, California, a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area that used to be the northwest corner of Berkeley.

I'm currently working as Associate Director for Digital Library Engineering at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Before UCSB, I was head of applications for Library IT at UC Berkeley; before Berkeley, I worked in digital preservation and data publication at the California Digital Library (part of the UC Office of the President in Oakland), and before that for a library software vendor called Innovative Interfaces; so I’ve been in and around libraries and archives for a while. I've enjoyed working in and with libraries and I've very much enjoyed working with librarians and archivists, enough that eventually I decided it was time to turn pro.

I have a BA in language studies (Japanese emphasis) from UC Santa Cruz and an MSc in economic and social history from Oxford University, and I’m enjoying getting to spend some time thinking about things like contested historical narratives and the social construction of knowledge after many years of decontextualized tech work.

I have two small children (ages 7 and 10) and I sometimes write science fiction, although not so much since the small children came along, and probably even less till I’ve completed the MI program.