Brandon T. Pieczko

Brandon is the Digital and Special Collections Librarian at the Indiana University School of Medicine's Ruth Lilly Medical Library where he manages the library's History of Medicine Collection. He is also an adjunct lecturer in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis where he teaches digital preservation courses and advises MLIS students in the Archives Management and Digital Curation specializations. Previously, he worked as the Processing and Digital Archivist at the University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, as Digital Archivist for Manuscript Collections at Ball State University, and as Processing Archivist at the State Archives of the South Dakota State Historical Society.

Brandon holds an MLIS and an MA degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in Religion and Classical Studies from the University of Evansville. He received a Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certification from the Society of American Archivists in 2013. Brandon is an active member of several professional organizations including the Society of American Archivists (Science, Technology, and Health Care Section Co-Chair), Medical Library Association (Archives Task Force Chair), Midwest Archives Conference (Archival Issues Editorial Board Chair), and the Society of Indiana Archives (past Secretary and board member). His research and teaching interests include digital forensics and preservation, computational archival science, data analysis, machine learning, digital humanities, open research and publishing, and the history of medicine.