Lauren Amundson is Lowell Observatory’s Archivist and Librarian. She has been at Lowell since 2003 and head of the Library and Archives department since 2011. She leads a small team of staff, volunteers, and interns whose goal is to collect, preserve, and provide access to the Observatory’s vast collection of books, documents, photographs, drawings, audiovisual materials, 3D artifacts, and glass plate negatives.