Jessica Lacher-Feldman

Jessica Lacher-Feldman is the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library at The University of Alabama. She formerly served as the Public and Outreach Services Coordinator for the Hoole Library. Her current role focuses on the administration of the Hoole Library’s rare books, literary collections, popular culture and music collections, as well as outreach, donor relations, etc.

In addition to her work with exhibitions, events, outreach, reference, and instruction in special collections, she served as the project manager for Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books, an IMLS-funded collaborative digital project between the University of Alabama and The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As an active member of the Society of American Archivists, she is a former chair of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of SAA, and former member Education Committee, subcommittee on Continuing Education. She served on SAA Local Arrangements Committee for SAA’s annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama in 2002. She is a past president of the American Association for History and Computing and is active in the Society of Alabama Archivists. She is a 2009-11 member of the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee.

Jessica holds certification from the Academy of Certified Archivists (2001). She also teaches as an adjunct professor of Archives in the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies. She holds an undergraduate degree in French Studies, a Master’s Degree in History and an MLS from the University at Albany in Albany, New York.