This week’s interview is with Abbie Grotke. She is the web archiving team lead here at the Library of Congress. I have worked with Abbie on a variety of archive collections, including the Legal Blawgs and U.S. Congressional web archives.
Describe your background.
I’m an all-over-the-East Coast gal. Born in Upstate/central New York, near the Finger Lakes, I’ve spent a lot of time in Buffalo with my father’s family but spent my formative years in Florida. I left as soon as I could (I missed seasons!), heading back north to go to school in North Carolina and then Massachusetts. I landed in the D.C. area in 1991 when I got an internship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art (then NMAA, now Smithsonian American Art Museum).
What is your academic/professional history?