Yuri Shimoda

Yuri Shimoda

While obtaining a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from UCLA’s media archival studies program, Yuri Shimoda worked for the UCLA Music Library, UCLA Library Special Collections, and as a UCLA Community Archives Lab/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation intern. She also served as the CLIR Recordings at Risk Intern on a project involving Native American sound and audiovisual materials at the Autry Museum of the American West and as a Library of Congress Junior Fellow.

In addition to founding the first student chapter of ARSC, Shimoda is an ALA Spectrum Scholar and co-founder of Basement Tapes Day, an annual event that provides the public with access to their home audio recordings. Currently instructing an audiovisual archiving class in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Department, she also works for Los Angeles Public Library and the Walt Disney Imagineering archives.