Heather Yager

Heather is responsible for the organization and preservation of the Museum's still image, moving image and audio collection, ensuring access through cataloging, digitization, and physical arrangement of the collection.

Before joining the Museum, Heather worked as a database programmer and system administrator at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where she designed and administered collections databases and managed the web servers for the Academy's research group.  She began her archival career several years earlier at the Xerox Historical Archive in Rochester, NY, where she provided technical and archival assistance. Since then, Heather has also worked in library reference at Carnegie Mellon University, done web programming at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and volunteered as the general library manager at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, NY.  

Heather completed a Master of Library and Information Science degree at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences, where she concentrated on digital collections and database design.  She also has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Binghamton University.

When she is not at work, Heather loves to play the piano, read, play board games, and cook for friends and family, as well as explore her new surroundings in the Bay Area.