Loretta Ayeroff is a photographer and independent archivist. Her work is in permanent collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Palm Springs Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, among others.

Angi Brzycki is the Senior Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library’s Digitization and Special Collections Department. She obtained an MLIS from UCLA after working as a messenger clerk at LAPL beginning in 2006.

Caley Cannon, Secretary, is the Senior Library, Arts & Culture Supervisor at Brand Library & Art Center, a unique public library in Glendale focused on visual arts and music. She also oversees ReflectSpace Gallery at Glendale’s Central Library; an exhibition space designed to explore and reflect on social justice topics. Prior to joining the City of Glendale she held positions as research librarian for the arts at Florida State University and Savannah College of Art and Design. Caley received Master’s degrees in Art History and Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in New York. She is active in community engagement, working to promote the vital role of libraries and the visual and performing arts in sustaining thriving communities. Contact: ccannon@glendaleca.gov

Aida Cuevas, Archivist and Local History Librarian, Orange Public Library

Dawn Jaros, Treasurer, is the Associate Director of Library Conservation at the Margaret Herrick Library where she oversees all preservation and conservation activities for the Library’s collection departments. Dawn completed her graduate studies at SUNY Buffalo State College with an M.A. in Art Conservation and Certificate of Advanced Study in Paper Conservation in 2008. She previously held positions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Balboa Art Conservation Center and the National Archives and Records Administration before joining the Academy in 2014. Dawn has been a Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet) Steering Committee member since 2014 and currently holds the position of Treasurer. Contact: 310.247.3000 x2233, DJaros@oscars.org

Marta Golbano is the Rare Books and Special Formats Cataloger, USC Libraries

Cynthia Kapteyn is a Project Conservator at the Huntington Library. She works primarily on digitization projects and manages the preservation workflow for materials being processed through the digitization workflow. She graduated in 2018 with an M.A. in Book and Archival Materials Conservation from Camberwell College of Arts at the University of the Arts London. Before coming to the Huntington Library, she was at Iowa State University. Cynthia joined LAPNet in 2021 and is the current chair. Email: ckapteyn@huntington.org

Devlin Mattlin, Co-Chair, Conservator, UCLA Library

Chela Metzger has been devoted to libraries and books since she began volunteering for her school library in fourth grade. She has a Master’s in Library Science from Simmons College and a Diploma in Hand Bookbinding from the North Bennet Street School. She completed an advanced rare book conservation internship at Library of Congress in 1994, and has worked as a conservator at The Huntington Library in San Marino California, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and now the UCLA Library as head of their conservation center. Chela began teaching book conservation while at The Huntington Library, and continued through nine years at the University of Texas Program in Preservation and Conservation Studies, and four years at Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She was awarded a three month teaching Fulbright to teach in Argentina in 2000 and continues teaching and consulting in Latin America. She also enjoys teaching workshops on a variety of conservation and book history topics. She has specialties in rare books, western bookbinding history, and account book  bindings. Email: cmetzger@library.ucla.edu

Jenni Matz is an oral historian, MLIS- archivist, documentary filmmaker, and attorney. Jenni has been an oral historian for the Television Academy Interviews since 2006 and its Director since 2014. She oversees the long-term planning and preservation of the Academy’s digital video archive and conducts many of its interviews. Matz co-designed the award-winning website, Television Academy Interviews, which provides full-text searchable access to over 4,000 hours of catalogued, indexed, time-stamped content.

Prior to her tenure at the Academy, Jenni co-founded the American Comedy Archives at Emerson College and produced and edited numerous documentary films for WGBH’s award-winning American Passages series, the History Channel, MSNBC, ABC News, and Oregon Public Broadcasting, among others. Jenni received her Masters in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College in 2006, and her JD from Southwestern Law School in 2016.

Lorraine Perrotta
Head of Technical Services, The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
626.405.2197
lperrotta@huntington.org

Hilary Swett, Co-Chair, is the solo archivist at the Writers Guild Foundation. She wears many hats including processing, managing, and caring for archival collections which contain a variety of formats: manuscripts, analog and digital audiovisual recordings, organizational records, clippings, magazines, pamphlets, photographs, and three-dimensional memorabilia. She also works with collection donors, researchers, and interns in service of collecting and sharing the stories of film and TV writers. She is active in LA as Subject and SAA’s Solo Archivists Section. She earned an MLIS from San Jose State and, prior to that, went to film school and worked in the entertainment industry. Contact: 323.782.4544, hswett@wgfoundation.org