Melissa E. Wertheimer

Melissa E. Wertheimer is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Senior Music Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress Music Division. Her work focuses on web archives curation, digital preservation, and the intersection of performing arts with archival theory. She holds an MLIS in Archives and Digital Curation from the University of Maryland, a Master of Music in Piccolo from the Peabody Institute (Johns Hopkins University), and a Bachelor of Music in Flute from Ithaca College.

Research interests include archival science, digital humanities, and leveraging social networks for cultural heritage preservation. She has led initiatives in web archiving through roles like Chair of the Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Section and membership in the NDSA Survey Working Group. Her professional engagements include lectures at the International Internet Preservation Consortium and the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation.

She is certified as a Digital Archives Specialist by the Society of American Archivists. While no specific grants or articles are cited in the provided texts, her professional contributions emphasize collaborative projects and public engagement. Her personal work bridges music performance and cultural heritage, with aspirations to digitize family archives and explore interdisciplinary artistic ventures.