About me
Brianna Toth is the Video Preservation Specialist for the Smithsonian Libraries & Archives’ Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI). She has worked in a variety of roles including large scale digitization initiatives, preservation and restoration projects, as well as collection management for community archives. Her personal research is concerned with the obsolescence of technical expertise in relation to the maintenance and preservation of analog video decks. In tandem with this research, she worked as the AMIA’s Program Manager for Online Education and served as the Co-Chair of the AMIA Continuing Education Advisory (CEA) Task Force from 2021 - 2023. Brianna holds a MLIS MAS from UCLA and a B.A. in Art History from the University of the Pacific. As an undergraduate, she also studied at Goldsmiths College in London in their Visual Cultures Department.