XAVI DANTO

pron: ‘Zay-vee Dahn-tow’
b. 1998; Detroit, MI; they/them

MSLIS Pratt Institute
Advanced Certificate: Archives

xavierjdanto@gmail.com

ABOUT

Xavi Danto is an MS Library and Information Science candidate pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Archives at Pratt Institute. As an archivist, librarian, and media specialist, they have over four years of professional experience working with institutions focused on fine art, avant-garde media, gender studies, and academic materials. Additionally, their scholarship is rooted in an ongoing interest in information censorship, emerging technologies, and authority control.

EDUCATION

MS Library and Information Studies
Pratt Institute
Aug 2023 – Dec 2025

BA Visual and Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Jan 2017 – May 2020

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Assistant: Archives
Pratt Institute Library
May 2025 – Present

Archives Consultant / Operations and Programs Associate
Blank Forms
Oct 2024 – May 2025

Graduate Assistant: Material Lab
Pratt Institute
Sep 2024 – Dec 2024

Preservation Intern
Rhizome
May 2024 – Oct 2024

Archives Intern
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

Assistant Image Archivist
Paula Cooper Gallery
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024

Research and Collections Assistant
Museum of Sex
Jan 2022 – Aug 2022

Bookseller
Artbook @ MoMA PS1
May 2021 – May 2022

Archives Intern
White Columns
Sep 2021 – Dec 2021

Editorial Fellow
Wendy’s Subway
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021

Operations Assistant
3 Hole Press
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021

Teaching Assistant: Contemporary Practices
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Aug 2019 – May 2020

Performing Archivist
Chicago Cultural Center
May 2019 – Jul 2019

Research Intern
Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Aug 2017 – Jul 2018

VOLUNTEER

Interference Archive
Sept 2024 – Present

NYPL Jail and Prison Services
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024

Black Cinema House at the Stony Island Arts Bank
Aug 2016 – Jan 2017

The Aquadome
Mar 2014 – Apr 2016

HONORS & LEADERSHIP

Member at Large
ACRL/NY
2024 – Present

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Student Representative
Pratt Institute
2024 – 2025

Graduate Student Engagement Fund: Grant Recipient
Pratt Institute
2024

CONFERENCES

Presenter Liaison
ACRL/NY Symposium
2025

Lightning Talk: Shape Expressions for Rhizome’s ArtBase
LD4 Conference - Building Community for Linked Open Data
2024

Lightning Talk: Sex Archives and Linked Open Data
Gender and Sexuality in Information Science Colloqiuim
2024

COURSEWORK

✳︎ Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications
✳︎ Information and Human Rights
✳︎ Program for Cultural Heritage
✳︎ Conservation and Preservation
✳︎ Conservation Lab
✳︎ Art Documentation
✳︎ Reference and Instruction
✳︎ Management of Archives/Special Collections
✳︎ Digital Preservation and Curation
✳︎ Foundations of Information
✳︎ Information Technologies
✳︎ Knowledge Organization

SKILLS

✳︎ Library & Archives: Collection development, appraisal, arrangement, and description (EAD, DACS); donor relations; reference services; and outreach.

✳︎ Digital Preservation and Cataloging: Metadata standards (RDA, ISBD, FRBR, BIBFRAME, Dublin Core); classification systems (Dewey, LCC, LCSH); preservation workflows (fixity, QC, format characterization).

✳︎ Technology: ArchivesSpace, CollectiveAccess, MyTurn, JSTOR Forum, OrangeLogic, OCLC Connexion, OpenRefine, SPARQL, HTML, CSS, Python, and Bash scripting.

✳︎ Additional: Rights and reproduction agreements, digitization of analog media, instructional design, accessibility description (alt-text).