Jennifer Hecker
Head Of Reference Services at Hecker Consulting
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Hecker is a seasoned archivist, librarian, and consultant with over two decades of experience preserving and providing access to high-profile literary and organizational collections. Currently Head of Reference Services at the Austin History Center, she specializes in arrangement, description, digital access strategies, and community-focused outreach for archives ranging from the Norman Mailer Papers to local zine collections. She founded and operates Town Talk Library and the Austin Fanzine Project, creating experimental analog/digital archives and a union catalog effort (Zinecat.org) to help libraries share zine metadata. Jennifer combines hands-on processing and project management—leading NEH-funded workflows and cross-department collaborations—with teaching and public-facing programming. She leverages deep local networks and digital scholarship expertise to turn small, grassroots collections into discoverable research assets. Known for blending archival rigor with creative community engagement, she also offers consulting and localized research services across Central Texas.
9 years of coding experience
MLIS, Archival Enterprise, MLIS, Archival Enterprise at The University of Texas at AustinLiberal Arts, Liberal Arts at Southwestern University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
catalog8
Github contributions (3)
zinecat/zinecat.org
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
Library Union Catalog for Zines
Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 50 pushes in 5 years 5 months
catalog
zinecat/sitebackup
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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