I'm a librarian and archivist located in Boston, Massachusetts, who...:

  • Appreciates succinct, useful, information available to a wide audience.
  • Enjoys collaboration.
  • Embraces Wikipedia's reliance on secondary sources for the main parts of articles, but is looks for appropriate times to include links to primary sources in the "External resources" sections of articles!

I, wiki user hey_nan_w, am work at the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), an independent research library located in Boston, Massachusetts. The MHS strives to enhance the understanding of history and make collections available to the public. I will, on occasion, add links to resources that are available on my institution's website (and links to resources that are available on the websites of other archival repositories). I will not make any edits that will not be beneficial to Wikipedia.