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Maisie Jones
Graduate Assistantmajones@umd.edu
BIO
Maisie Jones is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) researching digital accessibility, accessibility practice, and information architecture for libraries, archives, and special collections. She holds an MA in English from Auburn University and an MLIS with a concentration in archives from the University of Alabama. Her dissertation research engages with institutional practices of digital accessibility, particularly for libraries and archives, and how those practices impact the user experience and accessibility of library and archival digital systems and architectures. Further research work engages with AI for heritage description, archival memory and memory work, linked open data, and the role of information design in user experience for people with disabilities. She was a 2023 LEADING Fellow focusing on linked open data and data visualization of linked data networks.