Celia Emmelhainz

• MLIS, Library Science, Kent State
• MA, Anthropology, Texas A&M
• BA, Interdisciplinary (Sociology, Russian Studies), Ohio Dominican

Management of archival collections and staff in the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archive. Acquiring and preserving fieldnotes and other irreplaceable documentation of anthropological research. Making these fieldwork records more accessible to researchers, the public, and the communities they came from.

Post/Soviet ethnographic collections; cultural heritage in Mongolia and Kazakhstan; career decision-making and structural support for GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museum) professionals; preserving and sharing ethnographic research materials; and cross-cultural variations in archive-community relations. 

Journal Article

• Evenhaugen, Anne and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2024. "Guest Editorial: Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums." International Journal of Librarianship, 9, (2) 1–3. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.381.
• Lea, Mary Margaret and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2024. "Organizers of Museum History: Honoring the Labor of Librarians and Archivists in the Bureau of American Ethnology." International Journal of Librarianship, 9, (2) 87–102. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol9.2.365.
• Emmelhainz, Celia and Dorner, Jennifer. 2022. "Listening to historians: Using a listening tour to improve library support for foreign language researchers." College & Research Libraries News, 83, (8). https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.8.341.
• Glusker, Ann, Emmelhainz, Celia, Estrada, Natalia, and Dyess, Bonita. 2022. "Viewed as Equals: The Impacts of Library Organizational Cultures and Management on Library Staff Morale." Journal of Library Administration, 62, (2) 153–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2022.2026119.
• Singh, Monica and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2019. "Listening to Unaffiliated Users of the Academic Library." SAGE Open, 9, (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019858440.
• Sturma, Madeleine and Emmelhainz, Celia. 2019. "Reading between the Lines: Using Citations to Understand Anthropologists' Reading Patterns." Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries, 8, (3) 389–397.
• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2017. "Supporting the expatriate social scientist: Faculty research and information access in post-Soviet Kazakhstan." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 49, (1) 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000615591651.
• Werner, Cynthia Ann, Emmelhainz, Celia, and Barcus, Holly. 2017. "Privileged Exclusion in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ethnic Return Migration, Citizenship, and the Politics of (Not) Belonging." Europe-Asia Studies, 69, (10) 1557–1583. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2017.1401042.
• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2014. "Controlled Vocabulary Standards for Anthropological Datasets." International Journal of Digital Curation, 9, (1) 185–192. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v9i1.290.

Book Chapter

• Dohe, Kate, Emmelhainz, Celia, Seale, Maura, and Pappas, Erin. 2022. "The Saboteur in the Academic Library." In Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces. Acadia, Spencer, editor. 149–166. New York: Routledge. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159155), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003159155-7.
• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2020. "Educating the Central Asian Librarian: Considering the International MLIS in Kazakhstan." In Internationalization of Library and Information Science Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Alenzuela, Reysa and Kim, Heesop, editors. 1–32. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. (https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2273-8), https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2273-8.ch001.

Blog

• Emmelhainz, Celia. 2016. "Selling Dreams of the Good Life in Kazakhstan." Sapiens Oct 6, 2016. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/multilevel-marketing-kazakhstan/.