2025 Off-Cycle Election Candidate Information

Danielle Hall - Vice Chair/Chair Elect

University Records Manager/Assistant Professor

Morse Department of Special Collections, Kansas State University Libraries

Steering Committee

Caroline Browning-Hess

Digital Archivist, North Wind Group

Caroline M Browning Hess is a Digital Archivist with experience in cultural heritage preservation, unique metadata creation, and archival processing. Currently serving on a federal contract with North Wind Group, she collaborates with a digitization team for a records management/archival processing project in Albuquerque, NM.

Caroline holds a Master’s in Library Science from the University of North Texas, where she specialized in archival arrangement, metadata, and digital curation. She has her certified associate project manager certification from PMI and also brings a commitment to public access, controlled vocabularies, and the stewardship of culturally sensitive materials.

Her nonwork activities include bookbinding, paper marbling, and Toastmasters, where she currently serves as president of the As We Speak club in Albuquerque. Interfaith projects, such as the Hunger Project, ensure that those experiencing homelessness have a meal: the Lions Club and other community building activities help everyone to see themselves as protagonist and change.

She has learned to balance independent work with collaborative team dynamics. Her work spans digital preservation planning, ethical metadata implementation, and stabilizing fragile historical documents and maps per NARA and institutional best practices. In this position, she has developed an appreciation of the role of records management in the overall historical framework. The necessity for trust in an institution among records management professionals determines the vitality and accuracy of the historical archive.