Author: Freddy Thompson
Freddy Thompson (he/him and she/her) is a Rare Books and Special Collections librarian with a narrow focus on medieval European materials and a broad interest in the history of the written word. Having completed the Advanced Certificate in Archives as part of his MSLIS program, Freddy seeks to contribute to the wide range of conservation and preservation practices underway in the GLAM sector, including physical housing and collections management, reparative cataloguing, repatriation and restitution, and digitization.
Focusing on the labour that goes into grief and mourning – and the universality of that work – this exhibition takes six items from six different cultures currently…
This project explores accessibility at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art through the implementation of alternative text (alt text) for artworks. We developed a structured workflow to guide the…