Chelcie Rowell

My career's throughline is making digital special collections findable and usable for the purposes of scholarship, teaching, learning, artistic practice, and personal use. At Harvard Library, I'm a practitioner-manager. Our team has expertise in digital collection development and sustainability, copyright, metadata, and service design and management. In strong partnership with other units, we design, implement, and maintain infrastructure for digital collections and exhibitions based on deep engagement with users.

My recent publications and presentations include:

• Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, and Alix Keener. “Sharing Authority in Collaborative Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Library Workers’ Perspectives.” In What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom, edited by Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
• Walker, Paige, Adam Jazairi, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell, eds. Digital Literacy Against Digital Violence: A Handbook for Library Workers, 2022.
• Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, and Hannah Scates Kettler. “Cultivating Accountability by Eliciting Upward Feedback.” Panel presentation at the Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM), 2021.
• Rowell, Chelcie Juliet, and Taryn Cooksey. “Archive of Hate: Ethics of Care in the Preservation of Ugly Histories.” Lady Science, January 10, 2019.
• Burress, Theresa, and Chelcie Juliet Rowell. “Project Management for Digital Projects with Collaborators Beyond the Library.” College & Undergraduate Libraries 24, no. 2–4 (November 2017): 300–321.