About me
Charles Hosale is an archivist at the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, where he processes multi-format archival collections. Charles has experience in academic and corporate archives, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library Archives, MillerCoors, Robert W. Baird and Company, and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaborative project of the Boston public media station WGBH and the Library of Congress. He holds a Masters of Library and Information Science and a B.A. in Comparative Literature, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include audiovisual archives, digital preservation, digitization best practices, music history, foodways, and computer programming. He participates in archives and library professional organizations, including the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative, and has given workshops and presentations on audiovisual preservation, archive access platforms, automation, and project management.