Nicki Saylor is the Director of the American Folklife Center (AFC), designated by the U.S. Congress as the national center for folklife documentation and research. AFC works with communities to document living traditional culture, while preserving the nation’s oldest and largest archive of ethnographic documentation. Saylor has led the Library’s Digital Innovation Lab, which explores creative ways to share the Library’s content and connect with researchers, artists and the public. She served as the head, and then director, of the Archive of Folk Culture, which is AFC’s archive, from 2012 to 2021.
Most Recent Posts
- John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax papers now online December 31st, 2020
- Remembering the impact of AIDS on the library community December 1st, 2020
- There is No Eye: The John Cohen collection is ready for research July 29th, 2020
- Vast folk music festival collection now described online July 1st, 2020
- “Doing Something Useful:” A Tribute to AFC’s longtime volunteer, Howard Kramer June 1st, 2020
- Bess Lomax Hawes Digital Collection Launches April 22nd, 2020
- Ready for research: Documentation of Southern pottery, Southeast Asian cultures, and Armenian folk crafts March 24th, 2020
- Brooklyn Rediscovered through 1980s Documentation February 25th, 2019
- Collection of music and dance from New York immigrant groups now available for research September 19th, 2018
- Memory XFR offers a chance to learn about digitizing family memories captured on tape, slides or video August 15th, 2018