Su Lan Sheehan
Su Lan Sheehan is a Cataloging Assistant, and former Archives Apprentice, at Denver Public Library’s Special Collections and Archives. They were promoted in March 2024. Sheehan graduated summa cum laude from Metropolitan State University of Denver with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a minor in social work. Their previous research interests include 20th century Peruvian agrarian policy and federal Native American policy in the American West. Sheehan is currently working on developing relationships between Denver Public Library’s archives and Denver’s Asian American communities. In 2019, Sheehan moved from Dallas to Denver with their spouse and dog.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
SJ4A Fellows, Su Lan Sheehan, Tsinnijinnie Russell, and Maria Smyer, Attended Keep Calm and Save the Archives: Emergency Planning and Disaster Response Presented by the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists (SRMA) 2025 Annual Conference in Castle Rock, Colorado https://alabama.box.com/s/xrir2lcp85kmk6hu3xpbr8mp2l5ifk4t
June 2024: As an organizer for the Asian American Affinity group, Su was navigating changes at their library and advocating for maintaining safe spaces there.
May 2024: Su took the Library of Congress Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) training at Denver Public Library, with the intent of having the institution qualify as a Program for Cooperative Cataloging contributor in the future. Up at the University of Colorado Boulder, Su did authority work, migrated records into the repositories catalog, and put together a proposal to start a reparative project on Japanese incarceration collections.
SJ4A Fellows, Su Lan Sheehan, Tsinnijinnie Russell, and Maria Smyer, attended the 2024 Unconference: Archival Bodies regional conference presented by the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists (SRMA) in Denver, Colorado.
MY SJ4A ROAD MAP [STRATEGIC EDUCATION PLAN]
FALL 2024
CIS 675: Community-Engaged Scholarship
Analyzing Colorado Asian Pacific United (CAPU) Offerings and Partnerships in the Service of Developing an Intercountry Adoptee Oral History Collaborative (Password Protected Portfolio)
FALL 2023
CIS 668: Social Justice and Inclusion Advocacy
Analysis and Implementation of Diversity Audit Results to Reparative Description and Critical Cataloging in Public Libraries (Password Protected Portfolio)
SUMMER 2023
CIS 650: Applying Diversity Leadership Theories and Praxis
Analysis of Leadership in AANHPI Grassroots Organizing and Cultural Preservation (Password Protected Portfolio)