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Natalia Estrada

Digital Scholarship Librarian

Pronouns: she/they

322 Lockwood Memorial Library, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260

  • Ph: 716-645-1338
nestrada@buffalo.edu

Department Liaison

Anthropology

Education and Training

  • MLIS, Kent State University, 2019
  • BA, Anthropology, The University of Chicago, 2008

Publications

Contributions to books

Estrada, Natalia. 2024. "Punching Down: The Role of Hierarchy in Creating a Toxic Workplace Culture." in Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture, edited by Russell Michalak, Trevor A. Dawes, and Jon E. Cawthorne. Association of College & Research Libraries. http://hdl.handle.net.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10477/85736

Journal articles (refereed)

Estrada, Natalia. 2025. “Plotting Your Job Hunt: The Use of Visual Timeline for Investigating the Job Search Process ”. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 20 (4):143-58. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.18438/eblip30826.

Grunert, Jonathan, and Natalia Estrada. 2025. “Trans-Substantive Instructors: Scholarly Communication Librarians Facilitating Communities of Practice.” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 13 (1). https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.31274/jlsc.18271.

Estrada, Natali[a]*, Kristina Bush, and Stacy Snyder. 2024. “Let Us Fail: Speculative Futures and Digital Librarianship.” Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship 3 (June): 49–71. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.24242/jcdl.v3i1.219  *Publication misspells my name as "Natalie" 

Ann Glusker, Celia Emmelhainz, Natalia Estrada & Bonita Dyess (2022) “Viewed as Equals”: The Impacts of Library Organizational Cultures and Management on Library Staff Morale, Journal of Library Administration, 62:2, 153-189, DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2022.2026119

Conference proceedings

Estrada, Natalia, ""I Wasn't Excited for This Assignment, But I Am Now": Increasing Morale in Political Science Undergraduates Through Engaging Practices" (2022). LOEX Conference Proceedings 2021. 17. https://commons.emich.edu/loexconf2021/17/

Edwards, Susan, Chan Li, Celia Emmelhainz, Adam Clemons, Liladhar Pendse, and Natalia Estrada. 2019. “Collecting Globally, Connecting Locally: 21st Century Libraries.” Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment: December 5–7, 2018, Houston, TX, October, 700–713. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.29242/lac.2018.65.

Other selected sublications

Berger, Claudia, Quinn Dombrowski, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, Natalia Estrada, Kim Brillante Knight, Pamella R. Lach, Hideo Mabuchi, et al. “Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities”. dh+lib. unknown, 2024. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.17613/54pz-n026.

Bignoli, Callan, Natalia Estrada, and Kelly McElroy. 2023. “Status in Academic Libraries: Seeking Solidarity Rather than Binary.” College & Research Libraries News 84 (4): 145. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.5860/crln.84.4.145.

Celia Emmelhainz and Natalia Estrada, “Searching for recent anthropology and archaeology publications.” ACRL-ANSS Currents 33:1, 17-21. 2018. escholarship.org/uc/item/94c8t9sk

Estrada, Natalia. 2021. “American Sign Language” in The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition, edited by Claude H. Potts (The University Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2021). https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/languagesofberkeley/chapter/american-sign-language/

 

Research

  • Workplace hierarchies in academic libraries
  • Professional development opportunities for library staff
  • Digital scholarship learning and labor

Research Guides

Guides I've Created

  • Artificial Intelligence

Guides I Edit

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Tools
  • Anthropology
  • Digital Humanities
  • Digital Scholarship @ UB

Professional Memberships

  • American Library Association (ALA)
  • Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
  • Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
  • Certified Carpentries instructor

Presentations

Selected presentations

“Plotting Your Job Hunt: The Use of Visual Timelines for Investigating the Job Search Process”, Poster presentation, Empirical Studies in Library Summit (ESiL), 2025

“Library Workplace Culture”, Invited co-presenter with Cat Hannula. NCDS Data Internship, National Library of Medicine. 2024

“From Reading Group to Funded Entity: Starting and sustaining a digital scholarship program”, ACRL 2023. Roundtable facilitated with Jonathan Grunert. 2023.

“Innovative approaches to teaching research skills.” Co-presented Lightning Talk with Alessandra Otero Ramos. SUNYLA Annual 2022. June 10, 2022

“Library Staff Morale & the Academic Hierarchy.” Invited co-presenter with Ann Glusker, Celia Emmelhainz, and Bonita Dyess. Pennsylvania Library Association’s College & Research Division. April 20, 2021.