User:Mcdanielm

About Me
I'm an archival cataloguer at the Archives of American Art, with 21 years of experience in libraries and archives. I've a bachelors degree in English and Theatre from James Madison University with concentrations in pre-20th century poetry, dramatic literature, and historical costuming. I also have a Masters of Library Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. I'm an avid fiber artist, with current projects involving bead work, jewelry making, sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, spinning (with both drop spindles and wheels), quilting, and tablet weaving. I'll be fixing spelling and grammatical errors, adding links to finding aids (detailed archival descriptions of the resources within a collection) to entries, and updating biographical data in entries with information from finding aids.

Conflict of Interest Statement
I, User:Mcdanielm, am an employee of the Archives of American Art, a cultural institution per WP:GLAM. I accept the editing conditions specified at that page. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia.

My main edits tend to consist of the following activities:


 * Enhancing existing biographies of notable American artists or art world figures based on both published and original primary source materials
 * Adding authoritative references and citations to existing articles related to American art
 * Fixing errors in typography, spelling, and grammar as well as broken or inaccurate links

I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with other Wikipedia guidelines. I ask that other editors do not hesitate to contact me, via my user talk page, if I appear to be going against this declaration.

Projects on my radar

 * Smithsonian Institution WikiProject
 * Archives of American Art Wikimedia Partnership