About me
Casey McNamara works as a Media Preservation Coordinator at the New York Public Library. As a member of the Audio and Moving Image Preservation team, she collaborates on the physical conservation and digital transformation of analog media in NYPL's research collections, with a focus on motion picture film. Prior to joining NYPL in 2021, Casey worked at UCLA Film & Television Archive during her graduate studies. Her meandering path to media preservation work included a number of turns in cultural heritage programming support roles, including as a live subtitler for screenings of archival film prints. Casey earned her Master's of Library and Information Science, with a concentration in Media Archival Studies, from UCLA in 2020. She also holds a BA in French and Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley.