Michelle Light is the Director of Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. Previously, she was the Head of Special Collections, Archives, and Digital Scholarship at the University of California, Irvine; Head of Special Collections Technical Services at the University of Washington; Assistant Archivist at the Northeastern University Libraries; and Project Archivist in Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University. She has an MS in Information (Archives and Records Management) and an MA in History from the University of Michigan. She currently serves on the SAA Council.