April Anderson-Zorn
University Archivist
Milner Library
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By appointment (please email to schedule).
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- About
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Biography
April K. Anderson-Zorn is the University Archivist for ISU. Anderson-Zorn is a Florida native with intersecting interests in performing art, themed entertainment, business history, and archives.
Teaching Interests & Areas
Archival theory and practice, archival management, archival research in scholarship, teaching with archival materials, and themed entertainment archives.
Research Interests & Areas
Archival outreach, archival accessibility, and identity and mental health in the archival profession.
Other Library and Information Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
MA HIstory
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
Bachelor of Arts History
University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida
Outstanding College Researcher Award
Milner Library
2023
Outstanding College Service Award
Milner Library
2022
Performances and Exhibits
Homecoming Reign: A History of Illinois State University's Homecoming
April Anderson-Zorn, Barb Dallinger
October 11 2023 - October 11 2023
April Anderson-Zorn, Barb Dallinger
October 11 2023 - October 11 2023
November 22nd, 1963: Photographs from a Dallas Parade
April Anderson-Zorn, Barb Dallinger
November 10 2023 - December 12 2023
April Anderson-Zorn, Barb Dallinger
November 10 2023 - December 12 2023
Redbirds Reign: Memories and Mementos of Redbird Athletics
April Anderson-Zorn
September 28 2023 - November 6 2023
April Anderson-Zorn
September 28 2023 - November 6 2023
25th & Change: The History of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Annual Symposium
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Fitzsimmons
WGSS, Milner Library. August 2022 - April 2022
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Fitzsimmons
WGSS, Milner Library. August 2022 - April 2022
Collaborative Communities of Women: ISNU and YWCA from the 1870s
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson, Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Erin Wilcox
ISU, YWCA, McLean County Museum of History. August 2022 - 2023
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson, Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Erin Wilcox
ISU, YWCA, McLean County Museum of History. August 2022 - 2023
Finding Hovey
April Anderson-Zorn
February 1 2022 - February 20 2022
April Anderson-Zorn
February 1 2022 - February 20 2022
Shakespeare Festival 45th Anniversary
April
Milner Library. August 2022 - September 2022
April
Milner Library. August 2022 - September 2022
Shakespeare Festival 45th Anniversary
April
Illinois Shakespeare Festival. August 2022 - September 2022
April
Illinois Shakespeare Festival. August 2022 - September 2022
WGSS at 50: A Celebration of ISU's Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Program
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons, Maria Tudela
ISU Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Milner Library. January 2022 - May 2024
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons, Maria Tudela
ISU Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Milner Library. January 2022 - May 2024
Wearing Red: Unraveling the Origins of ISU’s Colors
April
Milner Library. September 2022 - November 2022
April
Milner Library. September 2022 - November 2022
Coming Home: Celebrating a Century of Homecoming at ISU
April Anderson-Zorn
September 20 2021 - December 16 2022
April Anderson-Zorn
September 20 2021 - December 16 2022
Building a Legacy: The Life and Service of Charles Edward Hovey, ISNU’s First President
April Anderson-Zorn
February 19 2019 - May 12 2019
April Anderson-Zorn
February 19 2019 - May 12 2019
Everyone Loves a Parade: Homecoming Parades through ISU's History
April Anderson-Zorn
October 18 2019 - November 27 2019
April Anderson-Zorn
October 18 2019 - November 27 2019
Reuniting with History: the University High School Time Capsule
April Anderson-Zorn
September 18 2017 - October 2 2017
April Anderson-Zorn
September 18 2017 - October 2 2017
The Walls Speak: Telling ISU’s Story Through its Campus Buildings
April Anderson-Zorn
October 7 2017 - December 8 2017
April Anderson-Zorn
October 7 2017 - December 8 2017
Time Capsule: A Normal Tradition
April Anderson-Zorn
September 15 2016 - December 15 2016
April Anderson-Zorn
September 15 2016 - December 15 2016
Backstory of the Bird
April Anderson-Zorn
October 1 2015 - November 30 2015
April Anderson-Zorn
October 1 2015 - November 30 2015
Backstory of the Bird
April Anderson-Zorn
October 23 2015 - October 23 2015
April Anderson-Zorn
October 23 2015 - October 23 2015
Celebrating 150 Years of Alumni Memories: The Illinois State University Alumni Association's Sesquicentennial
April Anderson-Zorn
January 18 2013 - October 24 2013
April Anderson-Zorn
January 18 2013 - October 24 2013
Death of a President: the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s Assassination
April Anderson-Zorn
October 25 2013 - December 13 2013
April Anderson-Zorn
October 25 2013 - December 13 2013
Re-living the Celebration: A look back at the themes of ISU’s Homecoming
April Anderson-Zorn
September 15 2012 - October 31 2012
April Anderson-Zorn
September 15 2012 - October 31 2012
Bone Student Center 50th Anniversary Celebration Breakfast
April Anderson-Zorn
Bone Student Center. - August 25 2023
April Anderson-Zorn
Bone Student Center. - August 25 2023
Founding Friendships: The life of Charles E. Hovey and his friendships with Jesse Fell & Abraham Lincoln
April Anderson-Zorn
Alumni Association. - March 5 2023
April Anderson-Zorn
Alumni Association. - March 5 2023
Giving Gala
April Anderson-Zorn
ISU Foundation. - March 25 2023
April Anderson-Zorn
ISU Foundation. - March 25 2023
ISU at the Field Museum
April Anderson-Zorn
ISU Foundation. - August 25 2023
April Anderson-Zorn
ISU Foundation. - August 25 2023
Book, Authored
Anderson, April Karlene. Illinois State University. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
Book, Chapter
Štefanac, Tamara, Jana Gligorijevic, Antonio Diaz Lucena, Jasenka Ferber Bogdan, Ivan Vranjić, Tammi Kim, and April Anderson-Zorn. “Documenting and Archiving Student Life.” Documenting and Archiving Student Life, 2023. Invited to contribute a short article on American academic archives for “They: Live – Student lives” for the International Center for Archival Research (ICARUS).
Anderson, April Karlene. “Mobile Technologies and Archives: Using the New to Preserve the Old.” In The Handheld Library : Mobile Technology and the Librarian, edited by Thomas A. Peters and Lori Bell, 143-151. First ed. Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2013.
Journal Article
Stephanie Collier, April Anderson-Zorn; Wikipedia Pages for Underrepresented Archivists: Creating Representation through an SAA Foundation Grant-Funded Documentation Project. The American Archivist 1 September 2023; 86 (2): 632–652. doi: https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-86.2.632
Anderson-Zorn, A. K., (2021) “Portable Archives: Using Mobile Technology for Archival Education and Outreach in a Campus Community”, Archival Issues 41(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.13206
Anderson-Zorn, April K. and Long, Dallas (2021) "Digitize Your Yearbooks: Creating Digital Access While Considering Student Privacy and Other Legal Issues," Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 8, Article 14.
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol8/iss1/14
Available at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol8/iss1/14
Anderson-Zorn, April K., Michael Andrew Davis, Danielle Nowak, and Alison Stankrauff. "Our Comeback Story: Impostor Syndrome in the Archival Profession." The American Archivist 84, no. 2 (2021): 502-519.
April K. Anderson-Zorn (2022) Do I Belong? Impostor Syndrome in Times of Crisis, Music Reference Services Quarterly, 25:2-3, 59-69, DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2021.1996095
Magazine/Trade Publication
Anderson-Zorn, April Karlene, et al. "Writing Our Comeback Stories: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in the Archives Profession." Archival Outlook, (May/June 2020): 6-7.
Anderson-Zorn, April Karlene. "Not all wore helmets: Preserving the work of women in the 'Great War'." Illinois Heritage Vol 21, No 6 (January 2019): 37-41.
Newsletter
Anderson, April Karlene. "A Trip Through Time: Examining Travel and Tourism Databases." MAC Newsletter 44 (January 2017): 28-31.
Newspaper, Regular Column
Anderson-Zorn, A. How Time Flies. Illinois State Annuitants Association Newsletter. Illinois State Annuitants Association Newsletter (2011)
Technical Report
Anderson, April Karlene, et al. "Proposal for a Digital Archives Program at the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives." Milner Library, Illinois State University, 2016.
Anderson, April Karlene. Report on the Survey of the Archival Materials at the American Automobile Association Headquarters. Orlando: unpublished report provided to the American Automobile Association, 2008.
Presentations
Flinn, Taylor and April Anderson-Zorn. “Measuring Impostor Phenomenon in the Archival Profession.” Presentation for the 96th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 20th, 2024.
Health in the Archives: Creating Unique Activities to Teach Archival Literacy in a Public Health Course. Society of American Archivists annual conference. Society of American Archivists. (2023)
Healthy History: Using Archival Literacy Activities in non-Humanities Courses. Academy of Canadian Archivists annual meeting. (2023)
Imposter Phenomenon and Archivists. Midwest Archives Conference annual meeting. Midwest Archives Conference. (2023)
Creating Representation for Archivists in Wikipedia: SAA Foundation Grant Funding and How it Helped Create Awareness. Society of American Archivists. (2022)
Digitize Your Yearbooks: Creating Digital Access While Considering Student Privacy and Other Legal Issues. New England Archivists. (2022)
Exploring the past and present: Incorporating archival materials with disease prevention efforts.. ISU Teaching and Learning Symposium. Illinois State University. (2022)
Anderson-Zorn, April K. and Alicia Wodika. “Exploring the Present with the Past: Incorporating Archival Exploration in Teaching Disease Preventions.” Presentation for the Research Forum at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, online, August 2022.
Anderson-Zorn, April Karlene, “Archival Health: Using Archival Literacy Activities to Teach Public Health.” Presentation as part of the larger session titled "Undergraduates in the Archives: High-Impact Practices and the Transformational Power of Primary Sources" at the Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, May 6, 2022.
Anderson-Zorn, April K. and Stephanie Collier. “Creating Wikipedia Pages for Underrepresented Archivists: Project Goals, Outcomes, and Next Steps.” Presentation for the Research Forum at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, online, July 2021.