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Helen Keller and the Love of a Metadata Specialist for Her Subject

Left to right are Anne Bancroft and Helen Keller at an 80th birthday party for Keller. I thought I knew what I would find when I started my tenure as the Metadata Specialist for the digitization project of the Helen Keller Archive. During my graduate school internship at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA, I processed several collections relating to the education and history of those who are blind and visually impaired. I knew all of the major Massachusetts players: Samuel…