Anastasia Chiu, Fobazi M. Ettarh, Jennifer A. Ferretti, 2021. In Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory. Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge López-McKnight, Editors. The MIT Press.

Jennifer A. Ferretti, 2020. Communications in Information Literacy, Volume 14, Issue 1 (2020), pages 134-152.

Jennifer Brown, Jennifer A. Ferretti, Sofia Leung, Marisa Méndez-Brady, 2018. Library Trends, Volume 67, Number 1 (2018), pages 163-181. Pre-print available via eScholarship, University of California.

Selected Invited Talks

Context / Concepts. What contributes to the whiteness of Library and Information Science professions and how can we retain BIPOC in the field?
Jennifer A. Ferretti, August 4, 2023. Keynote presentation. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Residency Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Panel discussion, Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Summer Fuse event
Dr. André Brock, Brian Carpenter, Jennifer Ferretti, Dr. Gabrielle Foreman, Bari Talley, Janet Tom, July 6, 2022. Invited panel discussion. Library of Congress.

Stepping Back to Move Toward a More Equitable Future for Digital Library Users and Workers
Jennifer A. Ferretti, April 26, 2022. Invited talk. 2022 Digital Initiatives Symposium, University of San Diego (virtual event).

Systemic Oppression Requires Systemic Change: Recasting the Roles of Academic Libraries in Contemporary Contexts
Jennifer Brown, Jennifer A. Ferretti, and Charlotte Roh. Invited Presentation, Association of College and Research Libraries Virtual Conference, 2021. 

Insurgency: Libraries and Archives Against Enclosure
Aleia Brown and Jennifer A. Ferretti in discussion, moderated by Bilphena Yahwoon, December 4, 2020. Panel Discussion. Taller Electric Marronage (virtual event).

What’s Behind the Curtain: The performance of digital stewardship and the need for real leadership
Jennifer A. Ferretti, November 12, 2020. Keynote presentation. NDSA Digital Preservation Conference (virtual event).

Disciplines as Domination: How interrogating traditional research and knowledge will help make our libraries and archives more equitable
Jennifer A. Ferretti, July 21, 2020. Keynote presentation. Triangle Research Libraries Network Annual Meeting (virtual event). Available here, edited for Medium.

Collecting for Social Justice: Artists’ Books and Critical Theory
Jennifer A. Ferretti, Kamaria Hatcher, and Adrianna Monsalve, September 2019. Panel discussion. Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, NY.

Neutrality is Polite Oppression: How critical librarianship and pedagogy principles counter neutral narratives and benefit the profession
Jennifer A. Ferretti, November 28, 2018. Keynote presentation. Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium (CLAPS), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Art is Information: Countering the ‘neutral’ classroom with pop culture and social justice
Jennifer A. Ferretti, May 9, 2018. Keynote presentation. The Innovative Library Classroom (TILC), Radford University, Radford, VA.

Art is Information (and neither are neutral)
Jennifer A. Ferretti, October 14, 2017. Keynote presentation. Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students (VREPS) 2017 Fall Virtual Conference (virtual event).

Lecturer, June 2022 - August 2022; June 2023 - August 2023; June 2024-July 2024.
San José State University (Remote)

• Instructor for INFO281-20 Building a Critical Culture: Information Ethics, Diverse Communities, and Critical Librarianship, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.

Director, Digital Library Federation, November 2022 - Present
Senior Program Officer, Digital Library Federation, June 2021 - November 2022
Digital Library Federation (DLF), Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

• In line with the program’s mission, serve as an advocate for research, learning, social justice, and the public good.

• Coordinate the efforts of the DLF community, ensuring they have the resources to perform their work.

• Identify and develop strategic partnerships.

• Foster greater awareness of the national and international aspects of digital libraries and the need to coordinate major activities as part of a global effort.

• Identify and reach out to organizations with similar or closely related missions, goals, and values to create and maintain mutually supportive relationships.

• Perform regular environmental scans for relevant institutional and community collaborative projects and keep CLIR and DLF constituents apprised of their progress.

• Manage and oversee content and interactive elements of the DLF website, keeping it up-to-date and relevant for the DLF community.

• Work with CLIR’s Communications, Outreach, and Engagement team to communicate with groups with an interest in digital libraries.

• Work with other senior staff across CLIR’s programs to ensure strategic alignment and direction including Leading Change Institute, Authenticity Project, and Postdoctoral Fellowships.

• Oversee the development and implementation of the DLF Forum, meetings, and other programmatic activities.

• Program and personnel management.

Digital Initiatives Librarian, July 2015 - May 2021
Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

• Enhances the Decker Library Digitization Program, institutional repository services, selection of digital tools, Social Media Plan and Web Strategy, with new developments in the field and according to the needs of users.

• Participates in library liaison work including reference, collection development, instruction, and departmental outreach.

• Develops activities, outreach tools, or programs that promote social justice, equity, and diversity.

• Manages the Digital Initiatives Unit, which includes two full-time staffpersons: Digital Curation & Audiovisual Archives Specialist and the Digital Projects Specialist

Archives Technician, June 2014 - July 2015
Library & Archives, Smithsonian Channel, Washington, DC

• Prepared original footage, completed shows, production elements, and other assets for long-term preservation.

• Inventoried, identified formats, confirmed health and completeness of files, organized files/folders according to in-house standards.

• Worked with Assistant Editors to create access files for processed collections.

• Cataloged descriptive and technical metadata in Collective Access.

• Provided consultations to researchers and fulfill requests for master footage.
  

Photograph Collection Fellow, September 2013 - May 2014
Archives, Barnard Archives, New York, NY

• Developed a processing plan for the Barnard College Photo Collection, a collection that consists of 42.5 linear feet.

• Based on the processing plan, organized the Photo Collection into series and wrote descriptions.

Processing Intern (Fall 2013), September 2013 - December 2013
Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Queens, NY

• Wrote archival descriptions for unprocessed manuscript collections using More Product, Less Process principles adapted to fit the mission of the division and library.

• Created finding aids using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).

Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program Fellow, June 2013-August 2013
Humanities & History Division, Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, New York NY

• Fellowship awarded by the Association of Research Libraries, Career Enhancement Program.

• Participant in the Developing Librarian digital humanities project: curated research on the history of Morningside Heights, NYC for an online platform using Omeka.

• Cataloged dissertations in the institutional repository, Academic Commons.

Exhibits Specialist and Graduate Assistant, January 2013 - July 2013
Public Services Department, Pratt Institute Libraries, Brooklyn, NY

• Provided reference assistance to library patrons.

• Curated “The Collections On View,” an exhibition highlighting the Special Collections, Rare Books, and Archives collections of Pratt Institute Libraries (on display May – August 2013).

• Created the accompanying LibGuide for “The Collections On View.“

Curator of Photographs and Digitization Coordinator, May 2009 - August 2012
Department of Imaging Services, Maryland Center for History and Culture (previously Maryland Historical Society), Baltimore, MD

• Processed historic photograph collections previously unavailable to the public.

• Initiated the equipment budget plan for the department.

• Facilitated digital project collaborations with local archives and institutions.

• Supervised the Imaging Services Technician as well as undergraduate interns.

• Digitized reflective and transparent items, non-print media including oral histories, and three-dimensional objects using archival standards.

• Fulfilled patron and in-house requests for rights and reproductions.

• Developed and implemented digitization projects to provide access to otherwise hidden collections.

• Curated “Paul Henderson: Baltimore’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs, ca. 1940-1960.”