XAVI DANTO
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
Pratt Institute
Aug 2023 – Dec 2025
BA Visual and Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Jan 2017 – May 2020
EXPERIENCE
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
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
ACRL/NY
2024 – Present
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Student Representative
Pratt Institute
2024 – 2025
Graduate Student Engagement Fund: Grant Recipient
Pratt Institute
2024
CONFERENCES
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
✳︎ 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
✳︎ 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).